Friday, April 13, 2012, 4 - 6 pm

Duke University • East Campus • Carr Building
114 Campus Drive • Room 229

Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University)

POWs into Ukrainians:
Some Little Known Aspects of a Little Known Front in World War I

Mark von Hagen is the director of the Arizona State University School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. He is the author of Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930 (1990) and War in a European Borderlands: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918 (2007). He is a coeditor of several volumes, including After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empire (1997) and Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 (2007). He has also written articles and essays on topics in historiography, civil-military relations, nationality politics and minority history, and cultural history.

The seminar starts at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served before the seminar.
A pre-circulated paper is available a week in advance at fbruehoe@email.unc.edu.

Co-sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies