Congratulations to CCS Regents’ Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer on his recent co-authored article with Katya Tolstay, “Holocaust***Gulag: Repressing, Rescuing, and Regulating Recalcitrant Legacies,” an expanded review of the 2023 symposium of the same title published in the journal Eastern European Holocaust Studies (2024). Learn more and download the article at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eehs-2024-0025/html.
Abstract: Is it possible to bring into conversation two different traumatic legacies that occurred in the twentieth century in Europe? How can we engage in productive conversation about two totalitarian systems that repressed, incarcerated, dehumanized, and murdered people deemed enemies of the state or unworthy of living? These were some of the challenging questions addressed in the roundtable symposium “Holocaust***Gulag: Repressing, Rescuing, and Regulating Recalcitrant Legacies.” The symposium aimed at addressing specific aspects of the difficult and painful histories of the Holocaust and the Gulag, and to probe how these long-lasting legacies intrude into contemporary society, culture, religion, and politics.