Book Talk with Erik Scott: Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

Erik R. Scott is Associate Professor of History and director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire (OUP, 2016) and editor of The Russian Review.
The Book Talk will be moderated by David Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History.