黑料社 group on the Russian revolution
The 黑料社 was pleased to host the 48th Annual Conference of the 黑料社 Group on the Russian revolution 鈥 the first time it has come to the university in its history.
Lively panels on history, politics and culture saw around 40 delegates from a variety of countries discuss some major controversies in the history of the Revolution, and envisaged where future research was likely to lead.
The debates took place in person at Highfield campus in English and Russian.
Wednesday 4 January
Panel 1: Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects
Chair: Semion Lyandres
- Jonathan Davis, Lenin, London and the Labour Party
- Jamie Bryson, Portents of Revolution? Okhrana Reports in 1916
- Alistair Dickens, Russian History from School to University: An Update
Panel 2: The Russian Revolution and Transnational Connections
Chair: Jenny Grieve-Laing
- Sam Foster, Diverging Paths?: The South Slavic Left and Revolutionary Russia before 1922
- Anna Lively, Transnational Humanitarian Relief, Press Networks, and Representations of Famine in Soviet Russia and Ireland, 1921-25
- Marie-Jos茅e Lavall茅e, Laying Down the Stage for Revolution: the October Revolution, Brest-Litovsk and the Revival of the Austrian Workers鈥 Movement in Early 1918
Thursday 5 January
Panel 3: 1917 and its Ramifications
Chair: Lara Green
- Konstantin Tarasov, Citizen soldiers. Civil Principles of the Russian Revolutionary Army in 1917
- Michael Melancon, Misunderstanding/Understanding 1917鈥檚 October Revolution: Bolshevik or Soviet RevolutionGeoff
- Swain, World Revolution: 1920 Revisited
Panel 4: Petitions and Penality in Early Soviet Russia
Chair: Daniel Orlovsky
- Lara Douds, Petitioning the Soviet 鈥楶resident鈥: the 鈥楶riemnaia Kalinina鈥, 1919-46鈥
- Aaron Retish, Prison Poetry: The Language of Revolution in Prisoners鈥 Petitions
- Mark Vincent, Shaping the Punitive Empire: Questions of Nationality in the Early Soviet Penal Periphery
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Panel 5: Nationalities 鈥 Ukraine and the Caucasus
Chair: Charlotte Alston
- Ridvan Chitil, O. F. Numanzade on Bolshevik Nationality Politics in the Caucasus (袨屑邪褉 肖邪懈泻 袧褍屑邪薪蟹邪写械 芯 薪邪褑懈芯薪邪谢褜薪芯泄 锌芯谢懈褌懈泻械 斜芯谢褜褕械胁懈泻芯胁 薪邪 袣邪胁泻邪蟹械)
- Christopher Gilley, Ukrainian State-Building and Antisemitic Violence: History, Historiography and Instrumentalisation
- Gary Lawson, Brotherhood of Nations? Centenary Perspectives on the Creation of the USSR. Semashko and the Birth of Soviet Health Resorts in Crimea
- Grigorii Grigoryev, The image of鈥疦ajmuddin鈥疓otsinsky鈥(1859-1925) in the historical narratives of modern Dagestanis
- Roundtable: The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution
Friday 6th January
Panel 6: Revolutionary politics
Chair: George Gilbert
- Alexis Pogorelskin, The Early Years of Edvard Gylling in Karelia
- Mark Conliffe, On Citizenry, Revolution, and the Relationship of Anatolii Lunacharskii and Vladimir Korolenko
- Michael C. Hickey, Solomon Gurevich and the Attempt to Chart a Moderate Socialist Revolutionary Path in Provincial Russia in 1917
Panel 7: Ideology and Rhetoric in Nationalities Policies
Chair: Sam Foster
- Stefan Gu啪vica, From the Taiga to the British Seas: The Russian Revolution as a World Revolution, 1917鈥1923Ksenia
- Butuzova, Revolutionary Enlightenment: Ideology and Didactics of Soviet Rebuses (1922鈥1930)
- Boris Gorshkov, A Revolutionary Childhood: Ideals, Declarations, Challenges, and Realities
Panel 8: Culture and Society in Early Soviet Russia
Chair:TBC
- Jari Parkkinen, Internationalism, Russocentrism and affirmative actions: Debating the revolution in music in the early Soviet Union
- Nikolay Sarkisyan, The Historical-Revolutionary Museums of Petrograd-Leningrad, 1917鈥1941
- Pavel Stepanov, 鈥淚nternational education of the masses鈥: Screening the Paris Commune in the 1920-1930s Workers鈥 Club
With thanks to our sponsors: BASEES, and the School of History, 黑料社.
In association with CEEES (Centre for East European and Eurasian Studies, 黑料社)