Communism Events
Democracy as a Challenge - The 2007 Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture, with Anatoli Mikhailov
November 15, 2007 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
History and Public Policy Program
On November 15, 2007, the Woodrow Wilson Center co-hosted the third annual Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture in collaboration with the Ratiu Family Foundation and the Ratiu Democracy Center. The recipient of this year's award, Dr. Anatoli Mikhailov, Rector of the European Humanities University, currently in exile in Vilnius, Lithuania delivered a speech on Democracy as a Challenge. An introduction by former ambassador to Belarus, David Swartz, preceded Professor Mikhailov's address.
4th Annual Serbian-American Lecture: Of Novelty and Oblivion, What Can We Learn From Dissidents under Communism
April 10, 2007 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
European Studies
Aleksa Djilas, Writer, Sociologist and Historian, Belgrade, Serbia
Documenting the Effects of Communism 15 Years after the Collapse of the USSR
February 09, 2007 // 1:00pm — 4:00pm
European Studies
co-sponsored by the Joint Baltic American National Committee
Confronting Romania's Communist Past
January 17, 2007 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
European Studies
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Government at the University of Maryland and Chairman of the Presidental Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania
The 2006 Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture: Are There Democracy Lessons Arabs Can Learn From Eastern Europe?
November 30, 2006 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
History and Public Policy Program
Dr. Saad Ibrahim, professor at the American University in Cairo and the recipient of the 2006 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award delivered the 2nd annual Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture key-note address: Are There Democracy Lessons Arabs Can Learn From Eastern Europe? Introductory remarks were provided by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed.
Nikita Khrushchev and the End of the Soviet Bloc: The Impact of the Secret Speech on East Central Europe
March 01, 2006 // 2:00pm — 3:30pm
European Studies
Charles Gati, European Studies Professor and Foreign Policy Institute Fellow, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland
No Saint: Jozef Tiso and the Holocaust in Slovakia
February 08, 2006 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
European Studies
James Mace Ward, Visiting Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and PhD Candidate in History, Stanford University
The Myth of the Golden Republic: Czechoslovak Propaganda and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century
September 13, 2005 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
European Studies
Andrea Orzoff, Assistant Professor of History, New Mexico State University
Czechoslovakia, 1948-1951: A Problem of Intelligence
May 11, 2005 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
European Studies
Igor Lukes, Professor of History, Boston University and 2004-2005 Wilson Center Fellow
Life under Communism in Albania: The Domestic Fiction of Ismail Kadare
February 23, 2005 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
European Studies
John Cox, Associate Professor of History, Wheeling Jesuit University