This Friday, January 13, 2023 at 7 PM the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture presents: 

“The Road to Global Conquest: Stalinist Expansionism and the Baltic Region, 1917-1953” 

A lecture by Dr. Alexander Gogun from the Free University of Berlin

Dr. Gogun is the author of Stalin’s Commandos: Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front (2016), which documents Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s scorched earth tactics in Ukraine and the looting, boozing, rapes, and violence of Stalin’s guerrilla forces. Since 2014, the war in Ukraine bears witness to the fact that Putin’s conduct of war chillingly mirrors Stalin’s. This Friday, January 13, 7 PM at the Balzekas Museum, Dr. Alexander Gogun will shed light on Stalin’s expansionism and its consequences in the Baltic region, and what lessons these historical events have for us today. 

About Dr. Alexander Gogun

Dr. Alexander Gogun is currently pursuing research at the Free University of Berlin. He has taught at Potsdam University and held a fellowship at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, the Daymel Shklar Fellowship at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, a postdoctoral fellowship at the International Institute for the Holocaust Studies Yad Vashem, the Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum as well a research fellowship at the Haddasah-Brandeis Institute – Brandeis Genesis Institute.

Address: Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 S. Pulaski Rd., Chicago, IL 60629. Presentation in English. 

Admission: Free of charge. Reservations requested: https://balzekasmuseum.org  Refreshments including Lithuanian Beer and Kugelis will be served. 

This program is sponsored in part by the members and private donors of the Balzekas Museum as well as a CityArts grant from the City of Chicago Department of Culture Affairs and Special Events.