CfP: STALINISM AND WAR
International Scholarly Conference STALINISM AND WAR 24-26 May 2016, Moscow Deadline: 1 November 2015. International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and Friedrich Ebert Foundation with additional support from Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...
Constructing the “Soviet”?
Constructing the “Soviet”? Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities Deadline: February 15, 2014 European University at Saint Petersburg opens a call for papers for Constructing the “Soviet”? Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities, an annually held conference for Master and PhD Students doing their research in the humanities and social sciences. This 8th Conference will take place on April 18-19,...
CfP: Soviet Film Studios at War, 1939-1949
International conference “Soviet Film Studios at War, 1939-1949” Moscow, Russian Federation June 12-13, 2014 Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 15, 2013 The organizers are pleased to announce the International Conference on “Soviet Film Studios at War, 1939-1949” which will take place in Moscow between June 12th and 13th 2014. There is a consensus among historians that if is difficult to write about...
Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985
ed. by N. Klumbyte, G. Sharafutdinova Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985 What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive institution...
Reconsidering Stagnation.
Reconsidering Stagnation. International Workshop University of Amsterdam 30-31 March 2012 How stagnant and uniform was “stagnation”? Is it possible to identify social and cultural trends that run counter to the “stagnation” narrative? Did contemporaries see themselves as living through stagnation? And if so, what accounts for Brezhnev’s popularity in present-day Russia and the widespread view of the Brezhnev era as the golden age of...
