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. Sögumidlun ehf is responsible for the exhibition design. Two foreign scholars will give talks on this occasion. Estonian historian and member of parliament Dr. Mart Nutt will give a talk on “Estonia: A Small Nation Under Foreign Rule” and Polish historian Dr. Pawel Ukielski, director of the Warsaw Uprising Memorial Museum, will give a talk on the historic uprising of 1944. Varðberg , the Association for Western Cooperation and International Affairs, and the Institute of International Affairs of the University of Iceland are hosting Nutt’s and Ukielski’s lectures together with RNH. This event is also part of a collaborative project between RNH and AECR , the European Association of Conservatives and Reformists, on “A Europe of Victims”.

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

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