Free for members; $10 for non-members. Professor Hirsch
discusses how the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 became one of the
first fronts of postwar competition between the USSR and its
former wartime allies—a competition in which the USSR did not
fare well. The United States proved far more adept at shaping
the trials and using them to advance a postwar agenda. By
evaluating the USSR’s contributions, Hirsch suggests that
although Nuremberg was a failure for the USSR, it taught the
Soviets important lessons that shaped their development as an
international power. –Robert Schnieder, Editor of the American
Historical Review Ms. Alice Mortenson is a Minneapolis resident
and University of Wisconsin—Madison alumnus in history who has
endowed a chair in Russian history at her alma mater since 2005.
TMORA applauds Ms. Mortenson’s generous support of this lecture
series in the service of the museum’s educational mission. Some
Excerpts from Professor Francine Hirsch’s work: Recent years
have seen a number of highly publici