On Monday, October 29, 2012, Hoover senior fellows Russell Berman, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, and Abraham D. Sofaer, the George P. Shultz Distinguished Scholar, participated in a colloquium titled “US Foreign Policy and the Rise of Islamism: The Abandonment of Human Rights and Democratic Principles?”

On March 5, 1940, the Soviet Communist Party Politburo ordered the execution of thousands of Polish military officers, government officials, and prominent civilians who had been arrested and imprisoned after the Nazi-Soviet attack on Poland in September 1939. The mass shootings of some twenty-two thousand people, some of them carried out in the spring of 1940 in the Katyn forest near the Russian city of Smolensk, are remembered as the Katyn Forest Massacre.