CfP: Beyond 1917: Socialism, Power and Social Change
Beyond 1917: Socialism, Power and Social Change Date: October 15, 2016 Location: United Kingdom We invite proposals for an academic conference to be held May 13-14, 2017 at Oxford University, United Kingdom, addressing the following themes: With the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, socialism attained state power for the first time in history. After more than a century or theorizing socialism as an alternative social order, as a paradigm of...
Trotsky’s Challenge
Frederick C. Corney Trotsky’s Challenge The ‘Literary Discussion’ of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution In Trotsky’s Challenge: The ‘Literary Discussion’ of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution, Frederick C. Corney examines the political polemic surrounding the publication of Trotsky’s The Lessons of October. Trotsky’s analysis ran counter to the efforts of Bolshevik leaders to fashion the narrative of October...
Russian Statehood
Russian Statehood: The Authorities and Society during the Twentieth Century International Research Conference in Russia St. Petersburg (Russia), May 30-31, 2013 Program This international research conference builds off of the Faculty’s prior success hosting an international conference in October 2010 dedicated to the study of late Stalinism and the epoch of N.S. Khrushchev and it hopes to continue its scientific dialogue with...
