Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War

Australian historian Sheila Fitzpatrick gave a talk entitled “Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War” at a symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. The lecture took place on July 10 in Tbilisi. 

Sheila Fitzpatrick is renowned for her expertise in Soviet and modern Russian history, particularly during Joseph Stalin’s rule.

This year’s Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia took place in Yerevan, Tbilisi, and Istanbul from July 1 to July 20.