Conference program
Thursday, 9th February 2012
Arrival
20.00 Opening lecture (impulse)
Chair: Thomas Bohn (Gießen)
Stefan Plaggenborg (Bochum): Post-Stalinism – An Epoch?
Friday, 10th February 2012
9.00-12.30 Panel 1: Society
Chair: Steven Bittner (Sonoma)
Thomas Bohn (Gießen): Closed Cities” versus “Open Society”. De-Stalinisation and Urbanisation
Galina Ivanova (Moscow): Десталинизация и социальная программа Хрущева
Melanie Ilic (Birmingham): Khrushchev and the Revival of the Woman Question
Juliane Fürst (Bristol): Destalinised Youth? Changes and Continuities of Policy, Concept and Experience
Commentary: Dietmar Neutatz (Freiburg)
14.00-17.30 Panel 2: Communication
Chair: Melanie Ilic (Birmingham)
Stephan Merl (Bielefeld): Did Basic Principles of Political Communication change after Stalin’s Death?
Jurij Aksyutin (Moscow): Эволюция общественных настроений в СССР в 50-е – 70-е годы по материалам массовых опросов очевидцев и свидетелей событий тех лет
Simon Huxtable (London): Rethinking ‘The Regime’: Komsomol’skaia pravda and Political Power, 1956-68
Commentary: Sergei Zhuravlev (Moscow)
Saturday, 11th February 2012
9.00-12.30 Panel 3: Culture and memory
Chair: Stephan Merl (Bielefeld)
Polly Jones (London): Coming to terms with the past, or mastering the past? De-Stalinisation in comparative perspective
Maria Zezina (Moscow): Soviet writers and De-Stalinization in the period of “thaw” and after
Alexandra Oberländer (Bremen): Those who don’t work shall not eat: A Cultural History of (non-)work in the USSR
Michel Abesser (Freiburg): A cultural playground for the Soviet Middle Class? – Soviet Jazz in the 1950s and 60s
Commentary: Beate Fieseler (Düsseldorf)
14.00-17.30 Panel 4: Space
Chair: Jurij Aksyutin (Moscow)
Karsten Brüggemann (Tallinn): National in form, socialist in content? Song Festivals in the Estonian Soviet Republic
Rayk Einax (Gießen): Much ado about De-stalinisation. The view from the Belarussian periphery
Natalija Kibita (Glasgow): De-Stalinising economic administration: Ukrainian ideas on an alternative vision of centre-republic economic relations (1953-1965)
Commentary: Julia Obertreis (Freiburg)
19.00 Final session & discussion
Chair: Michel Abesser (Freiburg)/Rayk Einax (Gießen)
Steven Bittner (Sonoma): Was it really the Beginning of the End? De-Stalinisation and the Shadow of the Soviet Collapse
Sunday, 12th February 2012
Departure