Friday, October 28, 2022
01:00–01:15 p.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks
01:15–03:00 p.m. Session 1: Policies
Chair: Wendy Z. Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University
Epp Annus, Ohio State University/University of Tallinn
Neoliberal Revolutionaries: The Idea of Economic Self-Management in the Late 1980s Estonian SSR
David Brandenberger, University of Richmond
Imagining the Communist Future: Soviet Nationality and Development Policy in the 1947 Party Program
Nikolay Mitrokhin, University of Bremen
How Belarusians Helped Gorbachev: The Minsk Clan in Soviet Economic Policy in the 1980s
03:00–03:15 p.m. Break
03:15–05:00 p.m. Session 2: Interactions
Chair: Claire Roosien, Yale University
Aleksandr Korobeinikov, Central European University
‘Gold and Furs are the Alpha and Omega of the Yakut Economy’: The Sakha Intellectuals in the Early Soviet Nationality and Economic Policy
Beatrice Penati, University of Liverpool
Cotton, Capitalism, and Colonial Legacies in Central Asia’s Own ‘Agrarian Debate’
Tamar Qeburia, Ilia State University/Georg August University of Göttingen
The Social Fabric of Industrial Technology: The Closed-Top Furnace Caught Between the Socialist and Nationalist Identity
05:00–05:15 p.m. Break
05:15–06:45 p.m. Keynote
Artemy Kalinovsky, Temple University
Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective
Saturday, October 29, 2022
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Session 3: Labor
Chair: Artemy Kalinovsky, Temple University
Zoé Allen-Mercier, University of Turku/Sciences Po
‘From Backward Outskirts of Tsarist Russia to a Republic with Developed Industry, Mechanized Agriculture and Advanced Socialist Culture’: The Intersection of Economy and Nationality in Soviet Karelia
Kateryna Burkush, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Industrious but Inglorious: Public Shaming and Affirmative Self-Image of Transcarpathian Seasonal Workers
Wendy Z. Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University
The War Economy: Central Asian Workers and Labor Mobilization
Jonathan Raspe, Princeton University
Soviet Workers, National Cadres: Industrial Recruitment Campaigns in Kazakhstan and Belarus, 1944–1959
12:00 p.m.–01:00 p.m. Lunch
01:00–02:45 p.m. Session 4: Communities
Chair: Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland/Princeton University
Robert Geraci, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Out of the Bazaar and Back Again
Sohee Ryuk, Columbia University
Locating the Nation in the Handicraft Carpet Industry in the Soviet Caucasus
Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton University
Rivers and Visions of Nation in Late Soviet Georgia
02:45–03:00 p.m. Break
03:00–04:45 p.m. Roundtable
Moderator: Sam Coggeshall, Columbia University
Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland/Princeton University
Claire Roosien, Yale University
Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University (Virtual)
Andrew Sloin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Anna Whittington, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
04:45–05:00 p.m. Closing Remarks