OSU Humanities lecture to feature rare video footage of Russia

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Russian historian Pavel Tribunsky will lecture at 3:30 p.m. on April 20 at Oklahoma State University.

With rare vintage historical video film footage, Tribunsky will discuss “The Role of Russian Émigré Historians in Shaping Western Perspectives on Russian History.” The lecture is free and open to the public at the Edmon Low Library.

Émigré historians in Europe and America were writers whose depictions of history differed from the official versions in Moscow and St. Petersburg publications during 70 years of communism.

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the depictions were made available to researchers. As a Fulbright Scholar, Tribunsky analyzed these records at several archives including those at Harvard University, Yale University and The U.S. National Archives.

“Professor Tribunsky is one of the few scholars to have engaged in pioneering archival research about Russian Émigrés,” said Keith Tribble, professor of Russian studies at OSU. “This rich treasure trove of information culled from rare resources will form the basis of his lecture at OSU.”

Tribunsky is senior research scholar at the Institute for the Study of Russia Abroad named after Solzhenitsyn in Moscow.

The lecture is made possible by the Oklahoma Humanities Council and by both the Social Science Seminar Series, and the Arts and Humanities Lecture Series, both in the College of Arts & Sciences. To learn more, phone (405) 744-9551 or e-mail keith.tribble@okstate.edu.