Events at Stanford
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23:30 Nov 02, 2021
Date: Friday, November 5, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Institution Library & Archives presents the Fanning the Flames Speaker Series. Speaker: Stephen Norris, Walter E. Havighurst Professor of History and Director, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University Moderator: Anatol Shmelev, Research Fellow and Robert Conquest Curator for Russia and Eurasia, Hoover Institution Library & Archives On January 11, 1934, the Soviet newspaper Izvestiia [News], published a political caricature entitled “The Sword of Damocles.” Drawn by the paper’s chief political caricaturist, Boris Efimov, the image is dramatic: a ghost-like samurai clenching a sword labeled “war [voina]” looms over the crib of the 1934 New Year’s baby. Just over three years later, the same paper published a caricature by the same artist. “A Little Beast with a Huge Appetite” features a Japanese officer--who bears a resemblance to Emperor Hirohito--clutching at the globe with bloody, beast-like hands. These...