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DescriptionRegistration for 50th Annual Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution, 4-6th January, Northumbria University The 50th Annual Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution (SGRR) will take place from Saturday 4th - Monday 6th January 2025 at Northumbria University, UK. The Study Group on the Russian Revolution, established in 1973, aims to promote new approaches to the study of the Russian Revolution, focusing on the period between 1880 and 1932. Affiliated to the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), the Study Group possesses an international membership and its annual conferences boast strong representation from scholars based in the UK, Europe, North America and Russia. The conference programme features 30 papers on various aspects of late Imperial Russian and early Soviet history as well as a special evening event marking the 50th conference. Registration booking closes at 4pm on Friday 29 November 2024.
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More InformationSTUDY GROUP ON THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 50th Annual Conference, 4th-6th January 2025 Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK SATURDAY 4th JANUARY 12.30-1 pm: Welcome, Lunch and Registration 1 – 3 pm, Panel 1: Localities, Nationalities and Peripheries in late Russian empire and early Soviet state Galina Ulianova, Rural Consumption in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Central Russia according to the ‘Annual Registers of General Tax Control’ Alexandra Bakhturina and Evgenia Tarasiutina, Alexander Yulevich Minkvitz and the Finnish Question 1895-1913 Dmytro Bondarenko, Nation-State Building amid the Background of the Revolution and Counter Revolution in the Former Russian Empire, 1917-1919. Eric Lee, The Georgian Uprising of August 1924: European Social Democracy at the Crossroads 3-3.15 pm: tea and coffee 3.15-5.15 pm, Panel 2: Socialist Ideas and Activists Alexis Pogorelskin, Kamenev Before 1917 Alla Morozova, The Non-Leninist Bolshevism of Alexander Bogdanov: History, Theory, Practice Konstantin Morozov, The Phenomenon, Contradictions and Paradoxes of Boris Savinkov George Bocean, Utopianism in Revolutionary Russia and the Role of Religious Collectivist Ethos in Marxist Utopia-Building 5.15 pm, Wine Reception and Evening Event: 50 Years of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution 7 pm Dinner at Blackfriars SUNDAY 5th JANUARY 9 – 10.45 am, Panel 3: International/Transnational Connections, Comparisons and Perspectives Marie-Josée Lavallée: Workers’ Councils and Revolution in Russia and Germany and Austria: A Comparison Anna Lively: Anti-Communist Women in the Aftermath of 1917: The Case Study of British Campaigner Elsie Bowerman Andrew Peak: Muslim political activity in the Early Soviet State and its influence on Turkish communism 10.45-11am: tea and coffee 11 am – 1 pm, Panel 4: War and Civil War Sofya Anisimova: The Military Strategy of the Provisional Government and the Entente, March-October 1917 Sam Foster: The Absent 'Stage Manager': Revolutionary Russia, the Era of the Great War and the Failures of Western Historiography Peter Whitewood: POWs in the ‘Russian’ civil war: between humanitarianism and civil war violence Olga Gradinaru: Engines of Storytelling: The Train's Role in New Russian Films on Revolution and Civil War 1 pm Lunch 1.30-2.15 Study Group on the Russian Revolution Annual General Meeting 2.15-4:15 pm, Panel 5 Revolutionary Politics and Political Culture George Gilbert: Martyr Cults in Revolutionary Russia 1881-1918 Konstantin Tarasov: Revolution of Language? New Words, Metaphors and Expressions of the Revolutionary Era Lars Lih: Martov at the Second Congress or, How a Myth Became a Hit Ilya Kontsevoi: Cooperation with confrontation: relations between the Bolsheviks and the Left SRs in regional Soviets in 1917-18 4:15 pm: tea and coffee 4.30-6 pm, Panel 6: Soviet Authorities and Society in the 1920s Ben Potter: Ten Years in the Making: ‘The Academic Affair’ (1928-1931) and Nikolai Marr’s Role in Preserving the Standards of Scholarship at the Russian Academy of Sciences Rob Dale: “I am now of a different opinion about the Bolsheviks”: Popular Opinion, Perlustration, and the Leningrad Flood of September 1924. Mark Vincent: Shaping the Punitive Empire: The Murder of a Government Official in the Early Soviet Penal Periphery.
7 pm Dinner at Lui’s MONDAY 6th JANUARY 9 – 11 am, Panel 7: Religion and Culture Across Borders Francesca Silano, “The Guardian Angels of the Mission”: Narratives of Identity and Religiosity Among Catholic Nuns in Revolutionary Russia 1920-27 Anastasiia Akulich, From Russian Mission to Chinese Orthodox Church: Reconsidering the Impact of the Russian Revolution on the Russian Orthodox Mission in China, 1917-1937 Victoria Peretitskaya, A Search for A Better World: Canadian Doukhobors’ Migration Rhetoric and Their Response to The Russian Revolution Zinaida Gafurova, Why didn’t they return? The first foreign tours of theatres of Soviet Russia in the 1920s 11-11.15 tea and coffee 11.15 am – 1 pm, Panel 8: Politics, Society and the Law Michal Sadlowski, The Political and Legal Thought of Pavel N. Milyukov during the Civil War in Russia 1917-1920 Alexandra Day, Between revolution and stability: Evgenii Korovin & Soviet international law Rachel Lin : Frontier Activism, ‘Rights Recovery’, and International Law: Early Sino-Soviet Relations Revisited Maria Starun: Злоупотребление зависимостью и дискредитация власти: половые преступления милиционеров, начальников и женихов в раннем СССР (Abuses of dependence and discrediting power: sexual crimes by police officers, bosses and partners in the early USSR). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
