Fall Lecture: Peter Buck Feller, The Last Gasp of William Schwartzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin’s Gulags

Peter Buck Feller, The Last Gasp of William Schwartzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin’s Gulags 
Friday, October 16
1:30-2:30 PM
In-Person at OLLI

Peter Buck Feller is a retired international trade lawyer with extensive publishing in his field, including his authoritative treatise, US Customs and International Trade Law Guide. In addition, he wrote an article reviewing the emerging nonfiction genre of books by children of spies, published in Foreign Policy (2012) magazine and an article on hunger strikes, published in The Pennsylvania Gazette (2024).

Feller is an independent historian with a particular interest in Soviet espionage around the Second World War and Stalinist system of gulags. He earned an A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from The American University, Washington College of Law, and an L.L.M. from the George Washington University Law Center.

Peter's book, The Last Gasp of William Schwartzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin’s Gulags, will be available for purchase and signing immediately following the lecture. 

Reservations are required to attend in-person lectures. This lecture will be held in the Spring Valley Building, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, in Room A on the First Floor. You must have an OLLI account to register. If you do not have one, you can create an account when going to register. Each registrant may reserve up to two seats. Your name must be on the list of registrants to enter the lecture and you must be in your seat five minutes before the lecture starts to guarantee your seat.