Slavs and Tatars: 79.89.09

Slavs and Tatars is an artist collective devoted to exploring the controversies and connections in the region east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China, commonly known as Eurasia. This lecture by group member Payam Sharifi looks at the unlikely similarities between two key moments in modern history—the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Poland’s Solidarnosc movement in the 1980s.