Exhibition and lectures at the National Library on Friday, August 23, 4–6 p.m.

On Friday, August 23, 2013, from 4-6 p.m., the National Library will open the exhibition World Communism and Iceland, which discusses the international communist movement and its activities in Iceland. The European Parliament has declared August 23 the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, the day on which Hitler and Stalin signed the armistice agreement that started World War II. The exhibition is being organized by the Research Centre for Innovation and Growth (RNH) in collaboration with the National Library of Iceland-University Library.

Its author is Professor Dr. Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson. Sögumiðlun ehf is responsible for the exhibition design.

The exhibition runs until September 16, 2013.

The exhibition catalogue can be found here.

See more information at: http://www.rnh.is/

Photo: Young communists in Siglufjörður under a picture of Lenin in September 1930.