CfP: National Minorities in the Soviet bloc after 1945
National Minorities in the Soviet bloc after 1945 Deadline: February 28th, 2014 The Lithuanian Institute of History (Vilnius), the Herder-Institut (Marburg) and the Nordost-Institut (IKGN e.V., Lüneburg) invite young researchers to participate in the international conference National Minorities in the Soviet bloc after 1945 to be held in Vilnius on October 22-24, 2014. A great deal of attention has been paid in the past to how Soviet...
The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire
Liliana Riga The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities – Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews, and others – this book examines the shared experiences of assimilation and socioethnic exclusion that...
