Report of Jan Tomasz Gross, the Professor of the Princeton University, "1939 in WesternUkraine and Western Belorussia – a Note on the Nature of Soviet Totalitarianism"

The seminar was on the 23rd of October

In the lecture the author presented the story of imposition of Soviet rule in the area as narrated in several thousand individual testimonies of residents of Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. He attempted to draw inferences on the basis of this material about characteristics of social control under Stalinism.