Francine Hirsch

Francine Hirsch is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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Russia

Putin's Revised Foreign Agent Law Could Enable Mass Repression

Francine Hirsch Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 12:02 PM

While Vladimir Putin and his generals continue their brutal war against Ukraine, the Russian State Duma has been furthering Putin’s campaign to crush Russian civil society.

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2022 Ukraine Crisis

Putin’s Memory Laws Set the Stage for His War in Ukraine

Francine Hirsch Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 5:09 PM

Vladimir Putin’s rewriting of the history of World War II set the stage for his war in Ukraine.

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