The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War
Nov21

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...

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CfP: The Evolution of Prisons and Penality in the Former Soviet Union
Nov14

CfP: The Evolution of Prisons and Penality in the Former Soviet Union

Deadline for Abstract Submission: Mid-December 2017 Deadline for Article Submission: end of april 2017 Issue Editors: Gavin Slade, Anne Le Huérou, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Today former Soviet countries hold around 10% of the world prison population – a total of almost one million people. These prisoners serve time in institutions originating in the Soviet period, conceived with a culturally distinctive carceral logic that consumed...

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Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR
Nov12

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...

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IL PROGETTO E LE FORME DI UN CINEMA POLITICO. A CENTO ANNI DALLA RIVOLUZIONE D’OTTOBRE
Nov12

IL PROGETTO E LE FORME DI UN CINEMA POLITICO. A CENTO ANNI DALLA RIVOLUZIONE D’OTTOBRE

Dal 13 al 20 novembre 2017 Fondazione Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico Fondazione Gramsci Giornate di studio e proiezioni in collaborazione con Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Casa del Cinema NOMAS Foundation Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale Sito ufficiale: http://www.aamod.it/2017/10/23 /cinerivoluzione17/ Pagina FB:...

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Long Awaited West
Nov07

Long Awaited West

Stefano Bottoni What is Eastern Europe and why is it so culturally and politically separate from the rest of Europe? In Long Awaited West, Stefano Bottoni considers what binds these countries together in an increasingly globalized world. Focusing on economic and social policies, Bottoni explores how Eastern Europe developed and, more importantly, why it remains so distant from the rest of the continent. He argues that this distance...

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1917-2017:Linguaggio potere e ideologia nel centenario della Rivoluzione russa
Nov03

1917-2017:Linguaggio potere e ideologia nel centenario della Rivoluzione russa

G IO V EDÌ 9 N O V EM B RE Aula P3 – Polo di Mediazione Interculturale e di Comunicazione Piazza Indro Montanelli, 1 – Sesto San Giovanni 10:15 Apertura dei lavori e saluto delle autorità Prima e dopo la Rivoluzione: storia sociale e intellettuale Presiede Giulia Lami, Università di Milano 10:30 Andrea Franco, Università di Macerata Una fragile solidità. Tensioni sociali, politiche e nazionali nel lungo ottocento russo 10:55...

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