Guest lecture by Matthew Light: "Reflections on exit restrictions in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states”

The Soviet Union’s restrictions on citizens’ foreign travel were a major topic of research by Cold War-era Sovietologists and continue to interest historians of the USSR. Yet what has been missing in the discussion so far is an explicit comparison of the system of formal and de facto restrictions on exit in the Soviet period and in the Soviet Union’s successor states that exist today. Prof. Matthew Light and his colleague Leon Kosals argue that while post-Soviet citizens have gained more opportunities to travel abroad since 1991, governments in the region have gained even more freedom to restrict and fine-tune policies on departures abroad, and began using those for purposes of regime survival.

The Inter University Partnership in Russian and East European Studies, The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies and The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies invites the campus community to a guest lecture by Matthew Light , Center for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

“Reflections on exit restrictions in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states”

Thursday, Nov. 28, 16:00-18:00 Tel Aviv Uni, Gilman Building, Rm.320