The Red Army Storms into Europe: Identity, Violence, and Discipline on the Eastern Front, 1944-1945

The Red Army Storms into Europe: Combat, Violence, and Discipline on the Eastern Front, 1944-1945
With Vojin Majstorovic
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Vojin Majstorovic is an historian with a specialization in the Soviet Union's Red Army. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2017. His research focusses on Soviet involvement in the Balkans and Central Europe in the 1940s. He has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at the Centre for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.

In this show we will explore the explosion of what Red Army officers called “military violations:” straggling, deserting, looting, and assaulting civilians. With a focus on the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts, which fought in the Balkans and Central Europe. Vojin's research suggests that troops wreaked havoc against civilian populations in “enemy” countries, looting, raping, and murdering on a large scale in “enemy” Romania, Hungary, and Austria, whereas they behaved with more restraint in “neutral” Bulgaria and “friendly” Yugoslavia.

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