After the Soviet Empire
Edited by Sven Eliaeson, Lyudmila Harutyunyan, and Larissa Titarenko After the Soviet Empire Legacies and Pathways The break-up of the Soviet Union is a key event of the twentieth century. The 39th IIS congress in Yerevan 2009 focused on causes and consequences of this event and on shifts in the world order that followed in its wake. This volume is an effort to chart these developments in empirical and conceptual terms. It has a...
Cfp: Linking Past, Present and Future
Linking Past, Present and Future: The 25th Anniversary of Regime Change in Romania and Moldova (1989/1991) Society for Romanian Studies Conference Conference venue: Bucharest, Romania June 17-19, 2015 Deadline: August 1, 2014 Anniversaries represent opportunities to reflect on past events, re-assess their impact on the present, and draw lessons for the future. Together with other 20th century historical events – including World War I,...
Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe
EDITORS: Mark Beissinger,Stephen Kotkin Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe This book takes stock of arguments about the historical legacies of communism that have become common within the study of Russia and East Europe more than two decades after communism’s demise and elaborates an empirical approach to the study of historical legacies revolving around relationships and mechanisms rather than...
CfP: Restructuring State and Society in Russia
14th Annual International Aleksanteri Conference State and Society in Russia Panel proposals (c.a. 500 words): May 15, 2014 Abstracts for individual papers (c.a. 300 words): May 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 19, 2014 Online Registration by: September 22, 2014 Conference: October 22-24, 2014 The Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, Choices...
