Rethinking the International and Transnational Dimensions of the Soviet Republics conferenza che si terrà il 28-29 Settembre 2023 presso la Scuola di Procida per l’Alta Formazione dell’Università di Napoli L’Orientale. Organizers: Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (Università di Napoli L’Orientale) and Aleksandr Voronovici (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena) The event is organized with the funds of the Università di Napoli L’Orientale and a generous grant of the University of Toronto Thirty years after the Soviet collapse, it remains challenging to identify an international role for the USSR that goes beyond the patterns of the Cold War. Nor is it possible to clearly assess the complexity of a system where international politics, diplomacy and cooperation did not pass solely through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Central Committee in Moscow but included a range of peripheral actors far from the center. Among these were the ministries, politicians, cultural and even scientific institutes of the USSR’s 15 Soviet Socialist Republics, which, as federated entities, had a specific subjectivity and relevance even in the international and transnational sphere. In the years of diplomatic isolation, in an era disrupted by ideological disagreements, world conflicts, and the bipolarity of a world divided by the Cold War and the uncertainties of decolonization, what were these alternative centers active in international relations? What were the interlocutors, issues, factors, interests, and levels of subjectivity promoted by these republics and political actors at the republican level? How, in 1991, would these issues be at the origins of the systems of...