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COALITION-BUILDING AND IDENTITY POLITICS: Representation and Democracy in Odessa During the 1912 State Duma Election

21.05.2019
In 1912, Russia held empire-wide elections to the Fourth State Duma, a parliamentary body established in 1905. In Odessa, the election campaign revealed that Russians fought not only about which candidate to elect, but also about underlying concepts of politics and democracy. When two rival newspapers, Odesskaia pochta and Iuzhnaia mysl, endorsed different "progressive" candidates, they started a debate over competing meanings of democratic representation: the politics of compromise and coalition-building versus the politics of class identity.

STAGING A CULTURAL COMMUNITY: Making Jazz Soviet Again after 1953

25.02.2019
Through the lens of the Cold War, jazz in the Soviet Union appears as a struggle between conservative party bosses and a rebellious youth striving for freedom and democracy. Michel Abesser’s talk addresses Soviet jazz culture and debates after 1953 and argues for a more complex understanding of its protagonists, discourses and practices. Such a focus can expand our ideas of youth, social stratification after Stalin’s death, and the hybridity between professional and amateur culture.

KONSTANTIN GODUNOV - CANDIDATE OF SCIENCES IN HISTORY

31.01.2019
Congratulations to EUSP Department of History graduate Konstantin Godunov on the successful defense of his dissertation for the degree of candidate of sciences in history. The defense took place on January 29, 2019 at the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences. The dissertation is titled: “Prazdnik 7 Noiabria v politicheskoi zhizni Sovetskoi Rossii epokhi Grazhdanskoi voiny (1918–1920 gg.) [ The November 7 Holiday in the Political Life of Soviet Russia during the Civil War (1918–1920)]”.

DARIA SVIRINA: BEST GRADUATION THESIS

30.01.2018
EUSP Department of History alumna Daria Svirina has received the award of the German Historical Institute Moscow for the best graduation thesis. The work was titled "Germanness" in the Memoirs of Russian Germans Deported to the Krasnoyarsk Krai." Congratulations to Daria on her achievement!

EVGENII GRISHIN – PHD IN HISTORY

09.10.2017
EUSP History Department graduate Evgenii Grishin defended his PhD dissertation at University of Kansas on July 14, 2017. The dissertation written under Professor Eve Levin’s academic supervision was titled “The Concepts of the “Schism” and “Schismatic” in the Church and State Discourses of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Russia”. We congratulate Evgenii on his successful defense and PhD in History degree.

KSENIIA BARABANOVA – CANDIDATE OF SCIENCES IN HISTORY

09.10.2017
EUSP History Department graduate Kseniia Barabanova defended her dissertation “Epidemiia kholery v Sankt-Peterburge v 1831 g.: vlast' i gorozhane v usloviiakh chrezvychainoi situatsii [Cholera Epidemic in Saint Petersburg in 1831: Power and Citizens in a State of Emergency]” at the Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences on October 3, 2017.

ELENA KOCHETKOVA – PHD IN HISTORY

29.05.2017
EUSP History Department alumna Elena Kochetkova (2013) successfully defended her PhD dissertation at University of Helsinki on May 27, 2017. The dissertation was titled “The Soviet Forestry Industry in the 1950s and 1960s : A Project of Modernization and Technology Transfer from Finland”. We congratulate Elena and EUSP History Department on their success!

OLEKSANDR POLIANICHEV – PHD IN HISTORY

29.05.2017
Wider European Doctorate (WED) program graduate Oleksandr Polianichev defended his PhD dissertation at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence on May 26, 2017. WED is a joint PhD program on history and political sciences organized in partnership between EUI and EUSP. The dissertation was titled “Rediscovering Zaporozhians: Memory, Loyalties, and Politics in Late Imperial Kuban, 1880–1914.”

THE RÔLE OF SHIPS, SHIPPING, AND THE SEA in Dutch Identity and Historical Memory

12.04.2016
On April, 27th, 18:00, Golden hall. A maritime nation with an impressive and long history related to the sea, The Netherlands should be expected to show this longstanding relationship in multi-faceted ways. In his presentation, professor Schokkenbroek will dwell on various types of manifestation of ‘maritimeness’. To what extent do these manifestations leave their mark on society? In what way is society confronted with this influence, and what is its effect on the local community, the city, the country?

THE COOK WHO WILL GOVERN THE STATE: Domestic Servants and the Revolution

06.03.2016
The image of the domestic servant has traditionally been a symbol of inequality and exploitation. How to explain the existence of domestic servants in the Soviet state, which made claims about the abolition of exploitation of man by man, and the liberation of women from kitchen slavery? Why paid domestic labor was neither condemned nor driven into the informal economy, but rather became an official part of the socialist economy?
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Friends and Enemies: Foreign Students in Late Soviet Universities

29.12.2015
Beginning in 1958 and until the late 1980s, students from the so-called “developing countries” studied in Soviet universities—in Moscow and Leningrad, as well as in Tashkent and Kharkov. These students benefited from the Soviet government’s ambitions to expand its influence in the new independent post-colonial states, but also experienced difficulties in everyday life in Soviet society.
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THE MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION: The Peter and Paul Fortress and Early-Soviet Memory Politics

30.11.2015
  On 10 December 2015, the International Graduate Student Workshop in Soviet History will meet at 18:00 in Room 414. We will discuss the work of Nicholas Bujalski (Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University). In 1924, the Peter and Paul Fortress – that founding site of St. Petersburg, sacred burial ground of the imperial family, and dread prison of the Tsarist autocracy – was proclaimed a ‘Museum of the Revolution.’