Druzhinin will speak about the mechanisms of suppression of most original scholars, ranging from dismissing them from the University to arresting and killing them, and dwell on the fates of famous Leningrad scholars who became victims of political repressions – Mark Azadovsky, Grigory Gukovsky, Victor Zhirmunsky and Boris Eichenbaum. He will also examine the methods of creating a new class of Soviet “scholars” whose primary task was to prove the world significance of everything Russian.