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Jaroslava Barbieri, Janine di Giovanni, Ian Garner (digital) and Sofi Oksanen (digital), chaired by Peter Pomerantsev

Freedom of thoughts vs indoctrination

Lviv BookForum 2023, 

How do you take a whole group of people, destroy their identity and force a new one on them? That is Russia’s aim in Ukraine. What methods do they use; does it work, and how does it compare to other examples across the world and in history?

Ian Garner and Sofi Oksanen will join remotely.

Jaroslava Barbieri, Janine di Giovanni, Ian Garner (digital) and Sofi Oksanen (digital), chaired by Peter Pomerantsev