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