Faculty Host: Dr. Bradley Woodworth, Baltic Studies Coordinator, Yale University
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 | 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Bringing together scholars and archivists who work with KGB documents left behind by the Soviet state security apparatus, this one-day symposium will address the legacy of the Soviet period in the three now-independent countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
Full Program (click on image)
Saturday, February 29, 2020
9:00 am Coffee
9:25 am Welcoming Remarks by Dr. Bradley Woodworth, Baltic Studies Coordinator, Yale University
9:30 - 11:10 am Panel I: KGB Documents in Latvia
Ainārs Bambals, National Archives of Latvia
- “Documents on KGB Surveillance in Soviet Latvia”
Gints Zelmenis, National Archives of Latvia
- “KGB Surveillance in Latvia from the 1960s to the 1980s: Records and Research Possibilities”
Chair: Douglas Rogers, Yale University
11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Panel II: KGB Documents in Estonia
Meelis Saueauk, Estonian Institute of Historical Memory
- “KGB Documents in Estonia: What We Have and How We Have Used Them”
Ivo Juurvee, International Centre for Defence and Security (Tallinn)
- “On the KGB Heritage in Estonia since 1991”
Chair: Aniko Szucs, Yale University
1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 pm Panel III: KGB Documents in Lithuania
Kristina Burinskaitė, Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
- “A Portrait of KGB Agents: Secret Collaborators Speak About Their Collaboration with the KGB”
Ramona Staveckaitė-Notari, Genocide and Research Centre of Lithuania
- “KGB Documents and Partisan Activities in Soviet Lithuania: Current Discussions and the Case of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas”
Chair: Bradley Woodworth, Yale University / University of New Haven
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee
4:00-5:30 pm Panel IV: An All-Baltic Perspective and Views from Ukraine
Andriy Kohut, Director of the Security Service of Ukraine Archive
- “KGB Archives in Ukraine: Access and Description of the Holdings”
Edward Cohn, Grinnell College
- “The KGB’s Struggle with Anti-Soviet Activity Among Youth in the Baltic Republics”
Chair: Claire Roosien, Yale University