The international research conference “Russian Statehood: The Authorities and Society during the Twentieth Century”, St. Petersburg, May, 30-31, 2013
After receiving letters of interest from scholars across the Atlantic
world, St. Petersburg State University's Faculty History would like to
issue a final call for papers for the international research conference
“Russian Statehood: The Authorities and Society during the Twentieth
Century” to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia on 30-31 May 2013.
This
idea builds off of the Faculty’s prior success hosting an international
conference in October 2010 dedicated to the study of late Stalinism and
the epoch of N.S. Khrushchev and it hopes to, within the parameters of
this future conference, continue its scientific dialogue with historians
from different countries who also study Russia’s contemporary history.
The creation and development of the Russian state remain
questions of great importance even as they have been studied in many
ways by Russian historians and their foreign colleagues. Already this
year (2012), the attention of scientific circles within the Russian
Federation has been drawn to the 1150th anniversary of the birth of the
Russian state. Now, research is set to continue in 2013—a meaningful
year if ever there was one for this area of knowledge. Four hundred
years ago began the rule of Romanovs which to significant extent
determined the particularities of Russia’s subsequent development as a
state. The year 2013 should also attract the attention of historians for
it was 100 years ago that a period of relatively stable growth ended
and the First World War and Bolshevik Revolution brought a new era of
development for Russia.
The conference’s
Organizing Committee invites you to take part in the discussion of
questions that remain hotly debated especially as the Russian Federation
continues to experience developments connected to the ongoing formation
of a new form of statehood. This conference has already received
support from the St. Petersburg City Government’s Committee for External
Ties as well as the B.N. Yeltsin Presidential Library. During the
conference’s proceedings, the Organizing Committee hopes to examine the
following “blocks” of problems:
1. Russia’s revolutions and wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries
2. Transformations of the political system, the economy, and society
3. Problems building a nation-state and the collapse of states
4. Issues involving culture including relationships between the intelligentsia, the
authorities, and the people
The language of the conference is Russian. Those scholars
selected to present at the conference may elect to have the Organizing
Committee translate their presentations from their language of choice to
Russian in the months prior to the conference’s taking place. The
articles off of which these presentations are based may also be
translated into Russian if they are selected for publication in a
conference compendium to appear at a later date.
The Organizing Committee plans to take upon itself the costs of
two-nights lodging plus breakfast for those scholars selected to
participate in the conference.
If you are interested in participating, please send a short e-mail in English or
Russian explaining your presentation topic by 1 February 2013 to Dr.
Ludmila K. Riabova, Associate Professor of History, Istoricheskii
Fakul’tet (Otdel’ Istochnikovedeniia istorii Rossii),
Sankt-Peterburgskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet, Mendeleevskaia Linia d.
5, g. Sankt-Peterburg, Rossiiskaia Federatsiia, 199034 (e-mail: lryabovaspb@gmail.com).
5 января 2013 18:46