Dr. Burkhard Olschowsky
Thursday, 16th May 2013
16:00 Opening session
Stefan Karner (Head of Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War-Consequences, Graz)
Cezary Mik (Vice-Rector, University of Stefan Kardinal Wyszyński)
Wojciech Kriegseisen (Head of the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Rafał Rogulski (Head of the Secretariat, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity)
Herbert Krauss (Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Poland)
Panel 1
16:30 – 17:45: Soviet Style Economy
Chair: Mark Kramer (Cambridge, MA)
Paul R. Gregory (Stanford), Relative economic performance of the Soviet economy
Friday, 17th May 2013
Panel 2 (part I)
9:00 – 10:30: Soviet Union
Chair: Paul R. Gregory (Stanford)
Boris Khavkin (Moscow), They predicted the collapse of the USSR: Andrei Amal'rik, Andrei Sakharov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Bogdan Musial (Warsaw), The role of energy sources in the soviet economy after 1945
Stefan Karner (Graz), Planned economy in the USSR 1970-1991
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Panel 2 (part II)
11:00-12.15: Soviet Union
Chair: Zbigniew Lewicki (Warsaw)
Andrej Zamoyski (Minsk), The costs of the fight against alcoholism and the Chernobyl catastrophe
Mikhail Prozumenshchikov (Moscow), Economic advisors of Mikhail Gorbachev and their reform proposals
Paweł Kowal (Warsaw), The development of the Oligarch system in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc: Key Questions
Commentator: Ol´ga Pavlenko (Moscow)
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch
Panel 3
14:00 – 15:30: The economic crisis and society in the Eastern Bloc countries in the 1980s
Chair: Ol´ga Pavlenko (Moscow)
Antoni Dudek (Kraków), The polish crisis – the collapse of the economy and attempts at reform
Burkhard Olschowsky (Warsaw), Between pretension and reality – decline of East German economy
Oldřich Tůma (Prague), The economic situation in Czechoslovakia in the late 1980s
Commentator: Raphael Krüger (Berlin)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
Panel 4
16:00 – 17:45: The economic crisis and society in the Eastern Bloc countries in the 1980s
Chair: Peter Ruggenthaler (Graz)
Csaba Békés (Budapest), Hungary – role model?
Iskra Baeva (Sofia), Bulgaria in 1980s – the price of being the most faithful satellite of Soviet Union
Mark Kramer (Cambridge, MA), Romania: The perils of debt repayment
Saturday, 18th May 2013
Panel 5
9:30 – 10:45: The Western Soviet Republics of the USSR in the 1980s
Chair: Serhii Plokhii (Cambridge, MA)
Jan Szumski (Warsaw), Economic situation in Bjelorussia
Volodymyr Viatrovych (Kyiv), The last years of the KGB in the Ukraine 1985-1991
David J. Smith (Uppsala/ Glasgow), Making the case for independence: the economic policies of the Baltic governments during 1990-91
Commentator: Zbigniew Lewicki (Warsaw)
10:45 – 11:15: Coffee Break
Panel 6
11:15 – 12:45: East-West relations I
Chair: B. Khavkin (Moscow)
Bogdan Musial (Warsaw), The last hope? West Germany in the plans of the Kremlin
Manfred Wilke (Berlin), West Germany and the economic crisis in the Eastern Bloc in the 1980s
Axel Lebahn (Göttingen), The backdrop of the German-Soviet negotiations concerning the construction of the Jamal pipeline
Commentator: Ralf Ahrens (Potsdam)
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch
Panel 7
14:30 – 16:00 East West relations II
Chair: Marek Kornat (Warsaw)
Mark Kramer (Cambridge, MA), US-embargo policy against the Soviet Bloc and its effects
Serhii Plokhi (Cambridge, MA), American Humanitarian Aid to the Soviet Union in 1991
Anthony Kemp-Welch (Norwich), Great Britain and the economic crisis in the Eastern Bloc in the 1980s
Commentator: Jens Boysen (Warsaw)
16:00 – 16:30 final discussion
Mikhail Prozumenshchikov, Axel Lebahn, Mark Kramer, Bogdan Musial