After being founded as a student venue, the ’Constructing ‘the Soviet’?’ conference is moving to a new level. From now on we will invite not only undergraduate and postgraduate students, but also the experienced researchers in the fields of the social science and humanities.

The conference aims at elucidating the European and international context of the 'Soviet’ phenomenon. The questions that we wish to focus on are: What is ‘Soviet’? Is it possible to specify ‘Soviet’ practices and phenomena? How legitimate is to speak about the “Soviet civilization”? How сan we contextualize the history of the USSR as an integral part of European history?

We strongly encourage interdisciplinary approaches and research relying on both traditional methods (political, social, economic and cultural history) and the new theoretical frameworks such as new political history, new cultural history, historical anthropology, the history of emotions, the history of the soviet subjectivity, historical memory and the history of transfers.

The organizing committee reserves the right to select participants based on the submitted abstracts. The working languages are Russian and English.

Abstracts should not exceed 3000 words including references (footnoted Chicago style is preferred). Please include your first and last names, institutional affiliation, position and contact details.

The deadline for abstracts is the 20th of March 2013.

The texts should be written in MS Word (files with the extensions .doc, .docx) and submitted to soviet@comparativestudies.ru

A limited number of grants for covering travel and living expenses are available on the competitive basis.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at soviet@comparativestudies.ru if you have any further questions.

Conference web site: http://constructing2013.blogspot.ru/
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