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Russia's Revolutionary Century 1917-2017
04 November 2017–05 November 2017, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Join UCL SSEES and Open Russia, as we commemorate the Centenary, and discuss the legacy of the Russian Revolution
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Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- £5.00
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UCL SSEES020 7679 8754
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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 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’s 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’s past, present and future.
Conference Programme:
| Saturday 4th of November | UCL Gustave Tuck |
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| 09:30-10:30 | Opening remarks and Keynote Lecture by Laura Engelstein: "The New Russian Revolution: 1917 Revisited” |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-12:15 | Panel 1 Revolution and Memory Uilleam Blacker 'Provincializing the Revolution: the View from Ukraine' Simon Dixon ‘Revolutionary memories and the specter of counter-revolution’ Andy Willimott ‘Revolutionary Scripts: the Paris Commune and October 1917’ Moderator: Pete Duncan |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-15:00 | Panel 2 Revolution and Empire Sarah Badcock ‘Kaleidoscopes of revolution: Views from the provinces in 1917’ Jennifer Keating ‘At the margins of revolution: 1917 and beyond in Central Asia’ Kristin Roth-Ey ‘Soviet media empire and revolution’ Moderator: Stephen Lovell |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15-16:45 | Panel 3 Daniel Beer ‘The Struggle over Sovereignty: Revolutionaries in Siberian Exile, 1905-1917’ Peter Waldron ‘Proletarians of the paintbrush: art and revolution’ Claire Shaw ‘Revolutionising the Imperfect Body: Changing Visions of Disability after 1917’ Moderator: Andreas Schönle |
| 16:45-17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00-18:00 | Keynote Lecture by Geoffrey Hosking: “The Triumph of Distrust: 1917 and Soviet Society”. |
| Sunday 5th of November | Open Russia |
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| 11:30–13:00 | Panel 4 Revolution, Political Culture and Modernisation Sergej Medvedev ‘Modernization through Catastrophe’ Vladimir Pastukhov ‘Permanent revolution. Will Russia eventually become a Eurasian union?’ Lev Lurie ‘Why did it all start with the Vyborg side?’ Moderator: Kirill Rogov |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00–15:30 | Panel 5 Ekaterina Mishina ‘Specific Features of the Bolshevist Criminal law’ Philippa Hetherington 'Liberal' internationalism and the politics of illiberal criminal law reform in the early Soviet Union’ Murray Frame ‘Crime and Policing in the Revolution’ Moderator: Louis Skyner |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00–17:30 | Panel 6 The Legacy of 1917/Impact on the world Tony Brenton Robert Service Kirill Rogov Andrew Wilson Moderator: Simon Dixon |
| 17:30–18:00 | Closing remarks |
| 18:00–19:30 | Drinks reception |
This conference has been made possible by the generous support of Open Russia.
