Past Screenings
Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA
Featuring Lyubov Sobol, Director Marianna Yarovskaya, and Hoover Fellow and producer Paul Gregory
June 3rd, 2026 4:30 – 7:00pm
Includes panel discussion and Q&A with Lyubov Sobol, Marianna Yarovskaya, and Paul Gregory, moderated by Kathryn Stoner, director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, with commentator and Hoover Fellow Larry Diamond
Stanford Global Studies Coverage
Freeman Spogli Institute Coverage
This event is sponsored by the Hoover History Lab, in partnership with the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Hoover Institution, Washington, D.C.
Ideas Uncorked: Lyuba’s Hope featuring the film’s producer and Hoover Fellow, Paul Gregory
June 24th, 2025 5:00 – 7:30pm
Q&A and reception
Cannes Festival Film Market
Work-in-Progress Screening
May 20th, 2025 3:45 pm
The World Forum, Berlin, Germany (excerpts screening)
The World Forum on the Future of Democracy, AI/Tech and Humankind, Berlin, Germany. The Role of Dissidents Panel
March 2025
Videos
Esalen Institute
Track Two: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy, The Russian Emigres Community Aspirations and Opportunities (Work-in-Progress Screening)
April 14-19, 2024
University of California, Los Angeles
Documenting Repression to Repression From Stalin to Putin. A Discussion of “Women of the Gulag” and “Lyuba’s Hope” (Work in Progress) Featuring Marianna Yarovskaya, Director and Producer
November 13, 2023 3:00 PM
“Yarovskaya’s documentary film “Women of the Gulag” powerfully told the tragic stories of women – the last survivors of the Gulag, a brutal system of terror that wreaked havoc on the Soviet population during Stalin’s regime. In “Lyuba’s Hope” (currently in progress), she fast forwards almost a century to women embarking on the valiant effort of women of the Russian democratic opposition to replace Putin’s “power vertical” with a democratic Russia. Don’t miss this enlightening event showcasing the resilience of women in the face of historical adversity and the ongoing pursuit of democracy in Russia.”
University of Maryland
Work-in-Progress Screening and Q&A
October 31, 2023