Deadline 1 febbraio 2020 WARS IN THE HISTORY. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF ARCHAEOGRAPHY, ARCHIVISTICS, SOURCE STUDIES, RUSSIAN AND WORLD HISTORY OF MODERN AND RECENT TIMES ON THE OCCASION OF THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (Russia, Moscow, 8-9 April, 2020) In 2020, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) holds the Xth International Conference of Young Scholars and Specialists «CLIO». The venue: the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, Russia, Moscow, Bol’shaya Dmitrovka Str., 15 (metro stations: Okhotnyi Ryad, Teatral’naya, Pushkinskaya, Tverskaya, Chekhovskaya). The timing: 8-9 April 2020 Organizers of the Conference: • The Federal Archival Agency of Russia • The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) • The Russian Historical Society • The Russian State University for the Humanities • The Russian Society of the Historians-Archivists • The German Historical Institute in Moscow • The Moscow Center of French-Russian Studies • Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgenforschung (Austria) With support from: • The National History Foundation (Moscow) Working languages: Russian and English. The Conference «CLIO. Historical documents and actual problems of archaeography, archivistics and source studies, Russian and world history of modern and recent times» is an open forum for discussing a wide range of topical scientific problems by young scholars in the field of humanities and related sciences. Staff scientists of national archives and scientific research centers, postgraduates, doctoral candidates, lecturers and trainees of universities and academic institutes – historians, political scientists, culture experts, sociologists, philosophers, specialists in archaeography and archivistics – are invited to take part in the Conference. The Program Committee of the Conference will aim to prepare its program, combining problem-thematic, chronological, historical-anthropological principles on the interdisciplinary basis that will make it possible to represent to the fullest extent possible the historical developments and processes covered by problem-thematic blocks offered below and relevant topics related to the wars in history. * * * The year 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The citizens of Russia will celebrate the 9th of May as the Day of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Consequently, the core theme of the Xth anniversary Conference “CLIO” will be the debatable issues and the latest studies, as well as the phenomenon of the World War II remembrance. The methodological approaches to analyzing and designing of the World War II remembrance, as well as the practices existing in Russia and foreign countries, related to the memory of the war and related events: military operations, acts of gallantry and military crimes, strategic and tactical planning of the command, economic, social and geopolitical aspects are supposed to be treated. The special consideration shall be given to such institutes of the war remembrance as archives, museums, monuments, mass media as well as to the forms of the commemoration work and discourse representation. Discussions are supposed to be held both on traditional problem-thematic blocks (see below), and on a special range of problems related to the history of the Second World War: Eventual thematic blocks (sections): o World War II as a global concflict: national, international, or transnational perspectives; o How (not) to write a history of the World War II: From traditional to modern military history; o 1919-1933-1939?: the disputed prehistory of World War II; o Balance of forces and plans of the parties on the eve of the World War II; o Key battles and personalities of the World War II; o How was propganda used during World War II and how did it change in May 1945?; o Disputed memories: International remembrance under conditions of Cold War and post-Cold War relations; o Mobilization and...