Centennial, Commemoration, Catastrophe: 1917-2017 as Past and Present in Russia and Beyond
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Centennial, Commemoration, Catastrophe: 1917-2017 as Past and Present in Russia and Beyond

Centennial, Commemoration, Catastrophe: 1917-2017 as Past and Present in Russia and Beyond Young Researchers Conference, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University 13-16 June 2017. Villa Vergiliana, Cuma, Italy Program Discussing the Russian revolution is impossible without addressing the causes, legacy, and echoes of this event. The very phrasing is contentious—was 1917 a revolution, overthrow, or...

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CfP: Judging the Past in a Post-Cold War World
Mar22

CfP: Judging the Past in a Post-Cold War World

Judging the Past in a Post-Cold War World Deadline: 31 May 2015. The collapse of the Soviet Union accelerated the search for justice and truth on the part of many millions of people whose lives had been overshadowed by the cold war, in many countries, for nearly half a century. Demands for justice and for recognition of suffering and loss have resulted in national Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, prosecution (or attempted...

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