Professor Rhiannon Dowling, of the History Department at Lehman, will give a talk entitled:

 "Soviet Women in Brezhnev's Courts: Gender and Justice in the Late Soviet Union".

This presentation will focus on a criminal trial from a town outside of Moscow from 1966-1969. Almost all the key players in the trial were women and all of them used the language of gender to discredit the other side and advance their own idea of justice. It gives us a window into the Soviet justice system at a moment when trust in the law and loyalty to the state was clearly breaking down, but when those who believed in legality still had hope for reform. A discussion based almost entirely on gender brought together people divided by class, education, and ideology and ultimately gave justice a chance to prevail.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

12:30 – 1:45pm

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