CfP: Ten Years of Hopes for a New Europe: Moscow and Brussels from 1985 to 1994
Deadline: 31 maggio 2022 To be held on 26-27 January, 2023 Department of Political Science, University of Pisa The conference is organised by the Department of Political Science of the University of Pisa in the context of the University Research Project «Ten Years of Hopes for a New Europe: Moscow and Brussels from 1985 to 1994» The main research question to be answered is to what extent the current crisis in relations between the...
CfP: Beyond Moscow. Rethinking the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet Republics
Beyond Moscow Rethinking the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet Republics 2-3 October 2022 Scuola di Procida per l’Alta Formazione (UniOr) Procida, Italy Call for Papers Thirty years after the Soviet collapse, it remains challenging to identify an international role for the USSR that goes beyond the patterns of the Cold War. Nor is it possible to clearly assess the complexity of a system where...
Moscow, the Fourth Rome
Katerina Clark Moscow, the Fourth Rome. Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941 In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the “Third Rome.” By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking to capture the...
