Social Histories of the Russian Revolution

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Social Histories of the Russian Revolution

Veranstalter
Russian History Study Group (coordinators: William Dixon, Brendan McGeever, Simon Pirani)
Veranstaltungsort
Dreyfus Room (2.02), Birkbeck, University of London
Ort
London
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
27.10.2016 - 23.11.2017
Website
http://socialhistories1917.wordpress.com
Von
Albert, Gleb J.

All are welcome to SOCIAL HISTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, a monthly series of discussion meetings, timed to take place during the run-up to the centenary of Russia’s revolutions of 1917.

Each discussion will be opened by historians, scholars working in academia who have spent many years studying the revolution in the Russian archives. But these are not academic seminars – they are open to all who share our interest in the history of the Russian revolution as a landmark struggle for social liberation. At each discussion there will be an opening talk of about 30 minutes, followed by open debate.

The emphasis in the discussion meetings will be on the social histories of the revolution – that is, how it was experienced by the mass of working people who participated.

By taking this approach we aim not to brush aside the role of political leaders, and their disputes and decisions, but rather to move beyond these well-known debates and reach a deeper understanding of the revolution as the active participation of millions of people in changing history.

We hope that by developing our theme over a year of meetings, we will be able collectively to engage in serious thinking and re-thinking about the revolution and its significance for our past and present.

William Dixon, Brendan McGeever, Simon Pirani (Organisers)

Programm

2016

Oct 27 – Steve Smith (University of Oxford): The Social History of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

Nov 24 – Brendan McGeever (Birkbeck, University of London): Antisemitism and Revolutionary Politics

Dec 15 – Andy Willimott (Reading University): Living the Revolution: Urban Communes in 1920s Russia and the Invention of a Socialist Lifestyle

2017

Jan 26 – Sarah Badcock (Nottingham University): The 1917 Revolutions at Local Level

Feb 23 – Katy Turton (Queens University, Belfast): Women in Revolt: the Female Experience of the 1917 Revolutions

March 16 – George Gilbert (Southampton University): The Radical Right and the Russian Revolution

March 30 – Dimitri Tolkatsch (University of Freiburg, Germany): The Ukrainian Peasant Insurgency in the Revolutionary Period

April 27 – Chris Read (Warwick University): The Social History of the Revolutionary Period

May 25 – Barbara Allen (La Salle University, USA): Alexander Shlyapnikov and the Russian Metalworkers in 1917

June 29 – Don Filtzer (University of East London): The Working Class and the First Five-year Plan, 1928-32

Sep 28 – Wendy Goldman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA): Taking Power: Remaking the Family, Levelling Wages, Planning the Economy

Oct 12 – Lara Cook (University of York): Local Soviets in 1917-18 and their Relations with the Central Executive Committee

Oct 26 – 1917 A Century On: A Debate (Speakers TBC, including Simon Pirani (author of The Russian Revolution in Retreat 1920-1924)

Nov 23 – Gleb Albert (University of Zurich): Early Soviet Society and World Revolution, 1917-27

Kontakt

socialhistories1917@gmail.com

http://socialhistories1917.wordpress.com