Lisa Kirschenbaum, "Soviet Perceptions of America: Ilf and Petrov’s 1935 Road Trip"

Benton 115

The second lecture in the Fall 2025 Havighurst Center colloquium series, "Soviet Propaganda: History and Legacy," will feature Lisa Kirschenbaum, who will talk about the 1935 road trip taken by two famous Soviet satirists to the United States.

Professor Kirschenbaum's research explores how people come to represent and understand their life stories as part of history, focusing on the linkages between individual, private lives and the momentous, often traumatic events of Russia's twentieth century. She has published three books: Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 (RoutledgeFalmer, 2000); The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion (Cambridge University Press 2015).

You may also like the following events from Havighurst Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies:

• This October, 18th October, 10:00 am, The Centenary of Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow in Oxford
• This November, 10th November, 04:30 pm, Annual Havighurst Lecture: Andrey Kurkov in Oxford

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