The Politics of Nazi Accusations: The Soviet Union and anti-Soviet Nationalisms in the Cold War
UCU, Campus Lviv | © UCU, Lviv
From 6 to 7 October, the MHC holds its annual conference at UCU in Lviv.
Registration for online participation
schedule:
PLEASE NOTE: THE TIME IS EASTERN EUROPEAN TIME, EET (KYIV TIME).
6 OCTOBER
9.00 – 9.45: Welcome and Introduction
- Yaroslav Prytula, Andrii Yasinovskyi
- Yaroslav Hrytsak and Martin Schulze Wessel
- Kai Struve: Introduction: The Current War and the Twentieth Century: How Images of the Past helped to Make a New War Possible
9.45-10.15: Coffee break
10.15 – 11.45: The Soviet Enemy Image of “Ukrainian Bourgeois Nationalists”
- Chair: tbc
- Olena Petrenko, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Investigating the Enemy: Crime Fiction as an Instrument of Ideology
- Viktor Drozdov, Izmail State University: Virobor vs. Didenko: Representation of the Enemy Image in Regional Soviet and Nationalist Propaganda
- Andrii Pykalo, Karazin University, Kharkiv: Ukraine and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement in the Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev (online)
11.45-12.15: Coffee break
12.15 -13.45: Soviet Propaganda and its Contradictions. Ukrainian Nationalists, Poles and Jews in Soviet Narratives
- Chair: Yaroslav Hrytsak
- Tetiana Banakh, Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History at UCU: The Volhynian Massacre in Soviet Publications against Ukrainian Nationalism
- Mykhailo Mitsel, Joint Distribution Committee Archives, New York: The Campaigns of Soviet Ukraine’s Ideological Machine Against “World Zionism”
- Yuri Radchenko, Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History at UCU: Anti-Soviet Ukrainians, Jews, the Shoah, and the USSR’s Secret Services: “Wars of Memory” during the Cold War
14.00: Lunch
15.00 – 16.30: The “Fascist” Threat and Soviet Imperial Rule
- Chair: Martin Schulze Wessel
- Jonathan Brunstedt, Texas A&M University: The Fascist-Haunted World: Soviet Interventionist Legacies, Antifascist Memories, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- Bartłomiej Kapica, Pilecki Institute, Warsaw: “The Difference Between the Hitlerities and Domestic Reactionaries Can be Blurred Gradually”: The Katyń Massacre in Polish Communist Underground Propaganda, 1943-1945 (online)
- Liliana Hentosh, Institute of Church History at UCU: The Soviet Defamation Campaign and Memory of Andrei Sheptytsky in Independent Ukraine (1991-2015)
16.30-17.00: Coffee break
17.00 – 18.00: The Soviet Union and the Ukrainian Diaspora
- Chair: Marianna Pyrih
- Oleksandr Avramchuk, Catholic University, Lublin: Ukrainian Studies on Trial. The Soviet Campaign to Discredit the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (online)
- Kai Struve, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich: The Ukrainian Left, the Soviet Union and the Enemy Image of “Ukrainian Nationalism”
19.00 Reception
7 OCTOBER
9.00 – 10.00: Anti-Soviet Activism among the Diaspora Nationalities
- Chair: Petro Dolhanov
- Sarah Grandke, University of Regensburg: The League of Ukrainian Political Prisoners and its Activities in the Western Zones of Germany and Austria, 1945-1951
- Maria Kovalchuk, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich: Secret Alliances of the Cold War: The Anti-Soviet Cooperation of the Ukrainian Émigrés and the CIA, Its Highlights, Pitfalls, and Achievements
10.00–11.00: Knowledge about Soviet Mass Crimes and East-European Emigrés
- Chair: Petro Dolhanov
- Anton Weiss-Wendt, Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, Oslo: East-European Émigrés, Raphael Lemkin, and the Concept of ‘Soviet Genocide’, 1947–1954
- Ulyana Kyrchiv, Mykola Haievoi Center of Modern History at UCU: The Yellow Prince in Cold War France: Piotr Rawicz, Anti-Soviet Advocacy, and the Struggle Over Holodomor Memory
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30: War Crimes Investigations in the West and Soviet Involvement
- Chair: Kai Struve
- Jayne Persian, University of Southern Queensland, Australia: Nazi Accusations in Cold War Australia (online)
- Lubomyr Luciuk, The Royal Military College of Canada: Reaping what they sowed: Soviet-era Disinformation and Alleged ‘Nazi War Criminals’ in North America
13.00: Lunch
15.00–16.30: Prosecution of War Crimes between Propaganda and Justice in the Soviet Union and Beyond
- Chair: Yuri Shapoval
- Gintarė Malinauskaitė, Lithuanian Institute of History: Lithuanian Priests in Exile on Trial: Soviet War Crimes Trials, the Catholic Church, and the Diaspora in the Cold War Context (online)
- Ákos Fóris, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest: The Image of Soviet Citizens Collaborating with the Hungarian Army in the War Crimes Trials of Post-War Hungary
- Vitalina Voitenko, Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, Kyiv: At the Courtroom and Beyond: Yaroslav Halan and Yuri Yanovsky as Special Correspondents on the International Military Trial in Nuremberg
16.30: Concluding discussion