CEERES of Voices: Francine Hirsch on "Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg" with Faith Hillis

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Francine Hirsch discusses Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg. She will be joined in conversation by Faith Hillis. A Q&A will follow the discussion. Ten copies of the book will be raffled off to interested participants.

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About the Book

Organized in the wake of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in her groundbreaking new book, a major piece of the Nuremberg story has routinely been left out: the critical and unexpected role of the Soviet Union. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg offers a startlingly new view of the International Military Tribunal and a fresh perspective on the movement for international human rights that it helped launch.

About the Author

Francine Hirsch is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison, where she teaches courses on Soviet and Modern European history and the history of human rights. Her book Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union, received the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Assoc. Her new project is on the history of Russian-American
entanglement.

About the Interlocutor

Faith Hillis is Associate Professor of Russian History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Children of Rus’: Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation and the forthcoming Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom,1830s-1930s.

About the Series

CEERES, pronounced /ˈsirēz/, is the acronym for the University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies. Together with the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, we are delighted to announce the launch of the CEERES of Voices Event Series, an author-centered series of readings and conversations on books from or about Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Eurasia, and the Caucasus. The books being discussed are identified in a various ways: through publishers’ contacts with the bookstore or through faculty requests to CEERES to host the author.

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