CFP: Beyond Brezhnevism: Growing Autonomy for Social Groups and Assimilation of Socialist Values
Cahiers du Monde Russe Beyond Brezhnevism: Growing Autonomy for Social Groups and Assimilation of Socialist Values Titles and proposals submission deadline: June 1, 2012 The image of “real Socialism” as an age of “stagnation” is gradually disappearing from studies of the Soviet Union. Indeed the clear cultural and social changes of the Brezhnev era are now part of a revised historiography. Despite the immobility of a political...
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...
