CfP: Jews and Others: Ethnic Relations in Eastern and Central Europe from 1917 and Onwards
International Conference at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Warsaw, Poland 2-4 October 2017 Deadline : 30 April 2017 Sponsored by the NADAV Foundation, Israel The Russian revolutions of 1917 played a key role in de ning the 20th century by virtue ofthe processes they launched, the entities they helped create and the reactions they triggered. The legacies of these transformative events and their aftermath, not least the...
CFP: Re-thinking the Russian Revolution of 1917 as a global
University of Essex, Department of History 15.09.2017-16.09.2017, Colchester, University of Essex Deadline: 15.12.2016 The Russian Revolution took place in many places and in different ways. Petrograd became the centre of events in 1917, but the revolutionary wave quite quickly swept over the whole Russian empire. Over the last two decades researchers studied and discovered the many faces of Russia’s revolution within the...
Making Uzbekistan
Adeeb Khalid Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. Traumatic upheavals—war, economic collapse, famine—transformed local society and brought new groups to positions of power and authority in Central Asia, just as the new revolutionary state began to create new institutions that...
The Transnational World of the Cominternians
Brigitte Studer The Transnational World of the Cominternians The ‘Cominternians’ who staffed the Communist International in Moscow from its establishment in 1919 to its dissolution in 1943 led transnational lives and formed a cosmopolitan but closed and privileged world. Full of sympathy, eager to learn, hopeful of emulating Bolshevik success ‘at home’, they were first-hand witnesses to the difficulties...
Red Nations
Jeremy Smith Red Nations The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR Red Nations offers an illuminating and informative overview of how the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union experienced communist rule. It surveys the series of historical events that contributed to the break-up of the Soviet Union and evaluates their continuing resonance across post-soviet states today. Drawing from the latest research, Professor Smith...
