How has the memory of wartime collaboration shaped Russian political culture from the Stalin era to the present day? Why has the figure of General Andrei Vlasov and the so-called Russian Liberation Army continued to occupy such a contested place in Russian historical memory? We cordially invite you to a lecture by Benjamin Tromly, during which he will present his forthcoming book The Vlasov Army: The Specter of Wartime Betrayal from Stalin to Putin. After the lecture, there will be time for discussion.
Date and time: Wednesday, 27 May 2026, from 18:00 to 19:30[NK2]
Venue: Faculty of Arts, CU, nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Praha 1, room 301
Registration: Please register via this form.
The event is free of charge and will be held in English. As the room capacity is limited, please register in advance.
About the forthcoming book: The Vlasov Army: The Specter of Wartime Betrayal from Stalin to Putin explores one of the most controversial and politically charged episodes of Russian twentieth-century history: Soviet collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The manuscript provides a new account of this chapter of wartime collaboration and also how collective memories of Vlasov and his army lived on throughout the Cold War and into post-Soviet Russia.
About the author: Benjamin Tromly teaches Russian, East European and Modern European history at University of Puget Sound in the United States. He is the author of Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual Life under Stalin and Khrushchev (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
This event is organized by the Boris Nemtsov Academic Center at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the Department of East European Studies in cooperation with the ERA-AREAS project, which supports the development of research and teaching in area studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.
