Summer History Workshop 2005

Interdisciplinary Centre for Studies in History, Economy and Society

Summer History Workshop

Moscow, 22-24 June 2005

Interdisciplinary Centre for Studies in History, Economy and Society (Moscow, Russia)
Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (Moscow, Russia)
State Socio-Political Library (Moscow, Russia)




22 June – Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI), ul. Bolshaya Dmitrovka 15 (Metro: Pushkinskaya)

13.45: Coffee/Tea
14.15: Welcome and Introduction

14.00 – 15.30:
Session I – The Regional Dimension in Soviet History
Oleg Khlevniuk (GARF, Moscow) – Центр и регионы в сталинской политической системе, 1920 -1950е гг.
David Shearer (University of Delaware, USA) – Западная Сибирь в 1930е гг.: взгляд с мест на Советскую власть.
Per Brodersen (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany) – “Караул и катафалк. Исторический образ Калининграда на Всесоюзной Сельскохозяйственной Выставке в Москве 1949 – 1954 гг.”

15.30-16.00: Coffee/Tea

16.00-18.00:
Session II – Structuring Identities from Below and Above
Marina Loskutova (European University at St. Petersburg) – “Проблема региональных особенностей в русских этнографических и географических исследованиях конца 19-го – начала 20-го века.”
Madhavan Palat (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India) – “Workers as a soslovie: a conservative strategy”
Irina Gordeeva (RGGU, Moscow) – «Сектанты, толстовцы, вегетарианцы, эсперантисты: исторические источники по истории коммунитарного нонконформизма в Советской России»
Alexei Kojevnikov (University of Georgia, USA) – “The Phenomenon of Soviet Science”


23 June – State Socio-Political Library (GOPB), ul. Wilgelm Pika d. 4, korpus 2 (Metro: Botanicheskii Sad)

14.00 – 15.30:
Session III – The State Socio-Political Library and its Collections

15.30-16.00: Coffee/Tea

16.00-18.00:
Session IV – Research and Archives
With the participation of K.M. Anderson (RGASPI, Moscow), Andrei Minyuk (RGAE, Moscow), V.N. Khaustov (Akademiya FSB, Moscow), Patricia K. Grimsted (Ukrainian Research Centre, Harvard University, USA) and others.


24 June - Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI), ul. Bolshaya Dmitrovka 15 (Metro: Pushkinskaya)

14.00-15.30:
Session V – Twenty Years Perestroika
Andrei Sokolov (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) – Социальные изменения перестроечного и постперестроечного периода.
Rudolf Pikhoya (Russian academy of public administration, Moscow) – « Политические изменения перестроечного и постперестроечного периода: судьба советской системы управления »

15.30-16.00: Coffee/Tea

16.00-18.00:
Session VI – State Pressure and Social Change
Igor Orlov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) – «Советская пропаганда в годы Великой Отечественной войны: источниковая база и исследовательские подходы»
Marc Elie (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) – “Khrushchev's Gulag: Camps, colonies and prisons in the USSR, 1953-1964”
Bella Ostromoukhova (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) – “Игры в оттепель: «молодёжь» и «десталинизация» в 1950-е -1960-е годы”
Saulius Grybkauskas (Lithuanian institute of History and Vilnius College of Construction and Design, Vilnius, Lithuania) – “The Party penalties and KGB “compromat” in the Soviet Lithuania industry ruling  (1965-1985)”