Russian Studies Workshop

You are invited to a conversation with Myroslav Marynovych, author of The Universe Behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs of a Soviet Ukrainian Dissident (University of Rochester Press, 2021). The Ukrainian Student Organization will meet in-person on Saturday, September 18 at 2pm (GA 4067). During the meeting, Myroslav Marynovych will present his book

Myroslav Marynovych served 10 years in the Gulag for his human rights advocacy – 7 years in Perm-36 and 3 more years in exile in Kazakhstan. He was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (1976). In 1991, Myroslav Marynovych founded the first Amnesty International group in the USSR. Prof. Marynovych has lectured widely in the U.S., Canada, Israel, and Poland, and has won a number of honors for his human rights advocacy.

The event is organized by the UkrSO and supported by the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, and the Russian Studies Workshop.