CfP: Dal Piave a Versailles
o Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito in collaborazione con l’Università degli Studi di Padova e con l’Istituto di Studi Politici “San Pio V” di Roma organizza per il mese di aprile 2018 un Convegno internazionale di studi intitolato “Dal Piave a Versailles” che si svolgerà a Padova. Il convegno si articolerà su tre panel: politico, militare e diplomatico e i relativi punti di sutura. Il panel politico riguarderà l’analisi dei governi...
Bridging the Baltic Sea
LARS FREDRIK STÖCKER Bridging the Baltic Sea Networks of Resistance and Opposition during the Cold War Era Tracing the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian émigré politics in Cold War Sweden and its linkages with both the host and homeland societies, this book investigates the transnational dimension of resistance and opposition to the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis of the constantly...
The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War
JENIFER PARKS Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic Sport during the Cold War. Spanning the period from the USSR’s Olympic debut in 1952 through the 1980 Games held in Moscow, this book argues that behind the high-profile performances of Soviet elite athletes, a legion of sports administrators...
European Memories of the Gulag
From 1939 to 1953, nearly one million people were deported to the Gulag from the European territories annexed by the USSR at the start of the Second World War and those that came under Soviet influence after the War: some to work camps but most as forced settlers in villages in Siberia and Central Asia. An international team of researchers has collected 160 statements from former deportees, photographs of their lives, documents from...
Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR
Nikolai Bolkhovitinov People’s Diplomacy in the Cold War SERGEI I. ZHUK This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines the broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in...
SÉMINAIRE « POLITIQUE ET GÉOPOLITIQUE DES ETATS POST-SOVIÉTIQUES
Le mercredi de 17h30 à 19h Université Paris-Nanterre (bâtiment V, salle 210) Programma >> Ce séminaire réunit tous les mois les étudiants inscrits en doctorat sur des sujets relatifs aux espaces post-soviétiques dans les écoles doctorales 138 et 139 de Nanterre et à l’IFG. Il accueillera également comme auditeurs tous les doctorants intéressés par la recherche dans le domaine politique et géopolitique relativement aux...