Why and How the Soviet Union Won the Second World War in Europe

Why and How the Soviet Union Won the Second World War in Europe

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre
Arts West (Building 148)
Professor's Walk

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  • FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

The Second World War in Europe was won by the Red Army. It was at the German "Eastern Front" where most German soldiers were killed or captured, and most war machinery destroyed. It was here that the Wehrmacht's back was broken. Soviet and now Russian historians (and politicians) are rightly proud of this achievement. In the commemoration of this victory, however, the darker sides of the Soviet Second World War are increasingly lost. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Europe, a very different war is remembered, a war where Stalin's regime was a perpetrator rather than a victim.

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Presenter

Professor Mark Edele is a historian of the Soviet Union and its successor states, in particular Russia. He is the inaugural Hansen Chair in History at The University of Melbourne as well as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.