Please join us for a very special event tomorrow at 12:15
(see details below). Mark Solonin, a path breaking, controversial Russian
historian and a bestselling author, is coming to the Davis Center to speak
about his book The Cask and the Hoops and analyze the reasons for the
Red Army's collapse in the first phase of the WWII German invasion. Did Stalin
really plan to attack Germany, as some authors recently claimed? What are the
problems in Russian and Western established historiography on the Red Army? Why
did Stalin's formidable army collapse so quickly, and what are the reasons for
its recovery? In his book, Solonin attempts to answer these questions using
hitherto undiscovered documents from Russian military archives.
All are welcome. Professor Terry Martin will chair the event.
Thursday, September 23
Occasional
Seminar
The Cask and the Hoops: Why Did Stalin's Army Collapse during the First
Days of Operation Barbarossa?
Mark Solonin, Author
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Talk will
be delivered in Russian with English translation.
To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway
Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway),
please visit Harvard
University Parking Services. To register a new visitor login, choose
“Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies” and enter
department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to
the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.
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