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Russia's Revolutionary Century 1917-2017

04 November 2017鈥05 November 2017, 9:00 am鈥5:00 pm

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Join 果冻影院 SSEES and Open Russia, as we commemorate the Centenary, and discuss the legacy of the Russian Revolution

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All

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Yes

Cost

拢5.00

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果冻影院 SSEES
020 7679 8754

Location

This event will be held in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre (Wilkins Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT) from 9-5pm on Saturday 4th November and then at Open Russia (16 Hanover Square, Mayfair, W1S 1HT) from 11.30-5pm on Sunday 5th November.

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Once the听Russian Revolutions of 1917 had fundamentally struck against the social, economic and political foundations of old-regime Europe, shockwaves spread throughout the continent and across the globe. This conference aims to explore the broad, complex legacy of 1917 across the century that followed.

Speakers will discuss revolutionary commemorations in the Soviet Union, the influence of communist ideology and practise on minds and bodies, and the revolution鈥檚 geopolitical legacy. Since the importance of revolutionary ideology in Russia did not come to an end with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the conference will provide a unique insight into its hold over the New Russia of today by focusing on questions of legal tradition and political and social modernisation. This, therefore, is a uniquely cross-disciplinary event designed to cast light on Russia鈥檚 past, present and future.

Conference Programme:

Saturday 4th of November果冻影院 Gustave Tuck
09:30-10:30

Opening remarks and Keynote Lecture by Laura Engelstein:

"The New Russian Revolution: 1917 Revisited鈥

10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:15Panel 1
Revolution and Memory
Uilleam Blacker 'Provincializing the Revolution: the View from Ukraine'
Simon Dixon 鈥楻evolutionary memories and the specter of counter-revolution鈥
Andy Willimott 鈥楻evolutionary Scripts: the Paris Commune and October 1917鈥
Moderator: Pete Duncan
12:15-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:00Panel 2
Revolution and Empire
Sarah Badcock 鈥楰aleidoscopes of revolution: Views from the provinces in 1917鈥
Jennifer Keating 鈥楢t the margins of revolution: 1917 and beyond in Central Asia鈥
Kristin Roth-Ey 鈥楽oviet media empire and revolution鈥
Moderator: Stephen Lovell
15:00-15:15Coffee Break
15:15-16:45Panel 3
Daniel Beer 鈥楾he Struggle over Sovereignty: Revolutionaries in Siberian Exile, 1905-1917鈥
Peter Waldron 鈥楶roletarians of the paintbrush: art and revolution鈥
Claire Shaw 鈥楻evolutionising the Imperfect Body: Changing Visions of Disability after 1917鈥
Moderator: Andreas Sch枚nle
16:45-17:00Coffee Break
17:00-18:00

Keynote Lecture by Geoffrey Hosking:

鈥淭he Triumph of Distrust: 1917 and Soviet Society鈥.

Sunday 5th of NovemberOpen Russia
11:30鈥13:00Panel 4
Revolution, Political Culture and Modernisation
Sergej Medvedev Modernization through Catastrophe鈥
Vladimir Pastukhov 鈥楶ermanent revolution. Will Russia eventually become a Eurasian union?鈥
Lev Lurie 鈥榃hy did it all start with the Vyborg side?鈥
Moderator: Kirill Rogov
13:00鈥14:00Lunch Break
14:00鈥15:30Panel 5
Ekaterina Mishina 鈥楽pecific Features of the Bolshevist Criminal law鈥
Philippa Hetherington 'Liberal' internationalism and the politics of illiberal criminal law reform in the early Soviet Union鈥
Murray Frame 鈥楥rime and Policing in the Revolution鈥
Moderator: Louis Skyner
15:30鈥16:00Coffee Break
16:00鈥17:30Panel 6
The Legacy of 1917/Impact on the world
Tony Brenton
Robert Service
Kirill Rogov
Andrew Wilson
Moderator: Simon Dixon
17:30鈥18:00Closing remarks
18:00鈥19:30Drinks reception

This conference has been made possible by the generous support of .

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