Events archive
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Rachel Lin (University of Exeter)
28 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
At the outbreak of revolution in 1917, more than 250,000 Chinese merchants, workers and students were scattered throughout the Russian empire. Some 100,000 had been recruited as wartime labourers and... Read more
Dr Andre Singer (SOAS, CEO Spring Films), Professor Archie Brown (St Antony's)
22 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Screening of Meeting Gorbachev , followed by Q&A with the film's co-director, Dr Andre Singer, and Professor Archie Brown. Meeting Gorbachev is a 2018 biographical documentary film directed by... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (University of Roehampton)
21 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This paper examines the history of the pop music industry in the Soviet bloc, focusing in particular on international Polish-Soviet concert tours organised between the late 1970s and the late 1980s.... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Sarah Badcock (University of Nottingham)
14 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This paper will explore the ways in which studies of ordinary people living in areas outside the metropole can add to our broader understandings of the Russian state, in both late Imperial and... Read more