The Gulag and Czechoslovakia: War
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: March 4, 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
The book Gulag a Československo: Válka (The Gulag and Czechoslovakia: War), which explores Soviet repression of Czechoslovak citizens and expatriates during World War II, was written by leading Czech experts drawing on years of research in Ukrainian, Russian and Czech archives as well as interviews with witnesses. The team of authors will present selected stories of the victims, topics previously unknown in the Czechoslovak context (camp escapes, cannibalism, imprisoned children), detailed statistics on distribution to Gulag camps, ongoing research in Ukraine, and three forthcoming further volumes in the series summarising the history of Soviet repression from a Czechoslovak perspective.
Speakers: Adam Hradilek, Jan Dvořák, Anna Chlebina and other authors.
Jáchym Topol will serve as moderator.
Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the Academia publishing house.