Immo Rebitschek, Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
3rd June 2021
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION: Joachim von Puttkamer (Jena) / Immo Rebitschek (Jena)
KEYNOTE: David Shearer (Delaware)
PANEL I: Law, Policing, and Social Practice, 1928-36:
Stefan Rindlisbacher (Frankfurt (Oder)): The Formation of a Soviet Spatial Order: Solving the “Pasture Issue” between Armenia and Azerbaijan, 1921-1936
Maria Starun (HSE St. Petersburg): A Market of Legal Bodies in a Stalinist Enterprise: Disciplinary Practices and Workers’ Rights
Aaron Retish (Detroit): Controlling the Soviet Family through Alimony: Loose Women, Starving Children, and Bad Fathers
Discussant: Alexandra Oberländer
PANEL II: Penal (Dis)Order and Terror, 1937-1941:
Wilson T. Bell (British Columbia): Investigating the Investigative Prison: Remand as Stalinist Social Control
Iryna Ramanava (Vilnius): Agricultural Managers: Seeking for Authority
Cynthia Hooper (Worcester, MA): Reining in the Whirlwind: Taking Control of Terror, 1938-1941
Discussant: Aaron Retish (Detroit)
4th June 2020
PANEL III: Trust and Retribution: Social Policing in (Post)War times, 1941-1953
Alan Barenberg (Lubbock, TX): Soviet Katorga Reconsidered: Retribution, Punishment, and Social Control in Wartime and the Postwar
Franziska Exeler (Cambridge, U.K./Berlin): Patrons and Partisans. Reclaiming Soviet Power in Post-Nazi Occupation Belorussia
Amanda Williams (Leeds): ‘They are afraid’: Medical Surveillance in Soviet Russia, 1940-54
Discussant: Tanja Penter (Heidelberg)
PANEL IV: Echoes of Stalinism, beyond 1953
Robert Hornsby (Leeds): Policing Youth Dissent in the Baltics after Stalin: The KGB and Komsomol
Immo Rebitschek (Jena): From the Street to the Court (and Back) – Juvenile Delinquency in the Soviet 1950s
Yoram Gorlizki (Manchester): After the XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order
Discussant: Michel Abesser (Freiburg i. Br.)
ROUNDTABLE
Juliette Cadiot, David Shearer, Immo Rebitschek, Tatiana Borisova, Peter H. Solomon Jr.
The workshop is planned in hybrid form. Depending on the infection rate and the COVID-19 guidelines we will open our venue to both (limited) physical and digital participation. For registration please contact Immo Rebitschek (Immo.Rebitschek@uni-jena.de).