The goal of the workshop is to improve our sense of connections and contradictions of two periods of Soviet history that are usually treated separately - World War II and de-Stalinization. Thus, the first day of the workshop focuses on the War itself while the second day is concerned with the first two decades of the War's long "aftermath".

Since the workshop is based on pre-circulated papers, pre-registration is mandatory.

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Room 5009, Friedrichstraße 191-193 (use entrance at Kronenstraße 12), 10099 Berlin

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Programme:

Thursday, 29 January 

14:00  Welcome  -  Jörg Baberowski | Catherine Gousseff-Klein | Gabor Rittersporn

14:15  Section 1  -  Fighting the Great War

Masha Cerovic:  More Soviet than Stalin - Partisan Violence on Occupied Territory

Kerstin Bischl:  Red Army Soldiers on Violence - Accounts from the Stalingrad Transcripts

Comment: Jan C. Behrends

15:30  Coffee

15:45  Section 2  -   In the Thick of Survival

Amandine Regamey:  Soviet Women Snipers - Experiences of Fire

Christian Teichmann:  The Uzbek Wars, 1939-1945

Comment: Robert Kindler

17:00  Coffee

17:15  Section 3  -   Law, Revenge and Retribution

Juliette Cadiot:  Lawyers under Stalin

Franziska Exeler:  Personal Reckonings in the Aftermath of Nazi Occupation

Comment: Kim Christian Priemel

18:30  End Day One

Friday, 30 January

09:30  Section 4  -  Moving Objects

Catherine Gousseff-Klein:  Population Exchange Soviet Style - Displacement of Minorities in the New Polish-Soviet Borderlands

Benjamin Beuerle:  Between Liberation and Repatriation - Soviet Forced Laborers in Northern France

Comment: Mirjam Galley

10:45  Coffee

11:00  Section 5  -  Patterns and Sounds

Valerie Pozner:  Moving Images of the Shoah

Sarah Matuschak:  Zhdanov's Music

Comment: Arkadi Miller

12:45  Lunch

14:00  Section 6  -  Signatures of Power

Gabor Rittersporn:  Art & Life - (De)painting Victory, Conjuring (Away) Defeat in Soviet and Post-Soviet Art

Lida Oukaderova: Cold War Exchanges - Moscow's Circular Panorama at the VDNKh

Comment: Jochen Krüger

15:15  Coffee

15:30  Section 7  -   Landscapes With a View

Isabelle Ohayon:  An Economy of Abundance? Small-scale Producers, Private Livestock and the Market in the Kazakh Countryside, 1960s and 1970s

Botakoz Kassymbekova:  Industrial Orientalism - The Making of Soviet Central Asia in the Post-War Period

Comment: Stefan Kirmse

16:15  End of Conference

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Contact:

Dr. des. Christian Teichmann

Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften

Humboldt-Universität Berlin

teichmac@hu-berlin