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Friday, November 3

“Finish Off the Beast in His Own Lair!” The Red Army’s Advance into Germany, 1944-45
Socialist Studies Seminar
Time:
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Presenter:
Jochen Hellbeck
Location:
Baker/Porter Hall 246A
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Jewish Studies Program and Carnegie Mellon Department of History

Professor Jochen Hellbeck of Rutgers University will give the third and final presentation of the Socialist Studies Seminar series, presenting on a chapter from his book-in-progress, "A War Like No Other?"

Part of a forthcoming monograph devoted to the decades-long stand-off between Nazi antibolshevism and Soviet antifascism, this chapter traces the Red Army’s incursion into Germany in 1944 and 1945 as it focuses on the interpretive lenses that propagandists, soldiers, and civilians on both sides of the front applied to the final stage of the Second World War in Europe.