November 9th, 2017
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Welcome and Introduction
Thomas Bohn (Giessen)/Svetlana Malysheva (Kazan’): Revolution at the Imperial Centers – questions from a German/Russian perspective
2:30 pm –- 4:30 pm Panel 1: Preconditions and Presumptions
Chair: Alla Salnikova (Kazan’)
Natalia Shlikhta (Kiev): The 1917 Break and its Aftermath: Estimates by Western and Ukrainian Historians
Pavel Tereshkovich (Minsk): Was Belarus’ ready for revolution in 1917? (in Russian)
Olena Betlii (Kiev): The Reaction of Russian Nationalists in Kiev to the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 (in Russian)
Commentator: Veniamin Kosmach (Vitebsk)
Break for Coffee
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Panel 2: Regional Alltag- and Mass Culture after 1917
Chair: Thomas Bohn (Giessen)
Svetlana Malysheva (Kazan’): The Formation of Soviet holiday culture between center and periphery (in Russian)
Andrej Czernakiewicz (Grodno): The Temptation of Liberty: Two Models for the Sovietization of Grodno (in Russian)
Mark Berman (Giessen): Everyday Life in Soviet Minsk 1921-1928
Commentator: Bianka Pietrow-Ennker (Konstanz)
November 10th, 2017
9:00 am – 11:00 am Panel 3: Revolution in the Vielvölkerreich: Ethnic and National Dimensions
Chair: Birte Kohtz (Moscow/Giessen)
Vitaliy Skalskyy (Kiev): What is this “Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921?” (in Russian)
Dimitri Tolkatsch (Freiburg): Revolution without Ideology and War without Frontlines - the Ukrainian Village, 1917-21
Alla Ehrlich (Hannover): Diverging Timelines in respect to the Russian Revolution 1917-1921 and the Crimean Tatars (in Russian)
Iskander Gilyazov (Kazan’): Volga Tatars and the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Expectations and Realities (in Russian)
Commentator: Klaus Heller (Fürth/Giessen)
Break for Coffee
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Panel 4: Science and Scientific Culture in the Province after 1917
Chair: Svetlana Malysheva (Kazan’)
Alla Salnikova (Kazan’): New Goals, New Symbols, New Myths: Revolutionary changes at Provincial Universities (in Russian)
Birte Kohtz (Moskau/Giessen): To Discipline and Build up. Provincial Psychiatry and Central Power after 1917
Tobias Haberkorn (Giessen): Emancipation instead of Revolution. Local museums in the 1920s
Commentator: Martin Aust (Bonn)
Break for Lunch
3:00 pm –- 4.00 pm Concluding Discussion
Alla Salnikova (Kazan’)/Birte Kohtz (Moskau/Giessen): Revolutions on the Periphery – insights from Belarus, Tatarstan and the Ukraine