The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-228-0110
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org
Book launch and signing
Meet the author Prof. Timothy Snyder (Yale)
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Friday, October 22, 7:30 p.m.
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own Ukrainian citizens ? and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.
Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power.
Beginning with Ukraine’s Holodomor (the Great Famine of 1932-33 engineered by Stalin and his administration), Snyder painstakingly details the horrors later inflicted upon Belarusians, Poles, and Jews.
Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive,Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.
During the years that both Stalin and Hitler were in power, far more people were killed in Ukraine than anywhere else in the bloodlands, or in Europe, or in the world.”
– Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Copies of Bloodlands will be available for purchase at the Museum on the day of the book launch. The evening will conclude with a wine-and-cheese reception.
Tickets: $15; $10 members and seniors; $5 students
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Sunday, October 24, 2 p.m.
“Reflections of Mazepa in World Musical Culture”
Lecture by Dr. Lubomyr Hajda, Associate Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
This lecture will provide an overview of musical works in world culture inspired by the legendary travails and historical exploits of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. Based often on well-known, as well as obscure, works of literature and the fine arts, these musical creations span over three centuries of styles (from the Baroque through the Romantic to the avant garde), cover an array of genres (from piano gallops to grand opera), and represent a wide variety of national schools (from Italian to American and Irish to Romanian). The lecture will be illustrated with musical examples.
Tickets: $15; $10 members and seniors; $5 students
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For information about these and other events taking place over the next week in conjunction with the Ukraine-Sweden (Mazepa) exhibition (which CLOSES OCTOBER 31!), please refer to the Museum’s website or call 212.228.0110.
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The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-228-0110
212-228-1947 (fax)
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org
