Dear friends!
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Nina Bogdan for an in-person presentation of her new book: Before We Disappear into Oblivion: San Francisco’s Russian Diaspora from Revolution to Cold War
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025)
✨ Join us for an evening of reading, discussion, and audience Q&A, followed by book signing and light refreshments.
📅 Friday, October 10
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 Globus Books
💵 Free Admission
This event is in English
Please RSVP
We deeply value every member of our diverse Russian-speaking community and would be honored to hear your stories. Each immigration journey is unique and complex, and together they form an essential part of our shared history. We warmly invite you to share your family’s immigration experience and join the discussion as we reflect, preserve, and celebrate the history of San Francisco’s Russian community
About the Author:
Dr. Nina Bogdan is a historian, consultant, and cultural preservationist. She was born and raised in San Francisco. Her recently published book, Before We Disappear into Oblivion: San Francisco’s Russian Diaspora from Revolution to Cold War (McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 2025), explores identity formation among Russian émigrés and immigrants in the noted period. In 2024, she completed a 160-page “Russian American Historic Context Statement” for the San Francisco Planning Department as part of the Citywide Cultural Resources Survey. The statement discusses the historical, geographic, political, and social forces involved in the establishment of Russian American communities in San Francisco. Dr. Bogdan holds a PhD in U.S. History from the University of Arizona and an MA in Political Science (University of California, Davis). She taught U.S. History at the University of Arizona from 2018 to 2023. Her earlier work includes coauthoring a photographic history of the Russian community, Russian San Francisco, an Images of America series book (2010). She also wrote and self-published her family history, The Desolation of Exile: A Russian Family’s Odyssey (2013), traveling to Ukraine, Russia, and China to complete her research.
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