Events

Nestor Lakoba

Clientelism and nationality in an early Soviet fiefdom: the trials of Nestor Lakoba

Professor Timothy Blauvelt (Ilia State University, Tbilisi)
26 September 2023 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room
Lenin & Ataturk
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Against the liberal order: the Soviet Union, Turkey, and statist internationalism, 1919-1939

Dr Sam Hirst (Bilkent University)
9 October 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Arrested development: the Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968

Dr Alessandro Iandolo (UCL-SSEES)
16 October 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
USSR Pepsi-Cola bottles

The Soviet Union and the construction of the global market

Dr Oscar Sanchez-Sibony (University of Hong Kong)
17 October 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room
Dr Oscar Sanchez-Sibony is assistant professor at the Department of History in the University of Hong Kong. He is author of the award-winning book Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the... Read more
Cover of Dina Fainberg's book 'Cold War correspondents'
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Cold War correspondents: Soviet and American reporters on the ideological frontlines

Dr Dina Fainberg (City, University of London)
23 October 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Geliy Mikhailovich Korzhev-Chuvelyov - 'Picking up the banner' 1957-60
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

'We know what war is': soldiers and veterans in the Soviet 'fight for peace', c. 1955-65

Dr Claire McCallum (University of Exeter)
30 October 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Still from 'Vietnam' by Roman Karmen
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Solidarity as pain: Soviet documentary film and the Vietnam war

Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL-SSEES)
6 November 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Stephen Kotkin books in piles

Stalin: winning the war, losing the peace?

Professor Stephen Kotkin (Princeton)
8 November 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Women and girls in Soviet Lithuania
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Soviet gender policies: from the past to future repercussions

Professor Dalia Leinartė (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge)
13 November 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Soviet Transcaspian poster
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

The British and the Bolsheviks in Transcaspia: nomad-state relations in comparative perspective

Professor Alun Thomas (Staffordshire University)
20 November 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Gorbachev, Gromyko, Ryzhkov, Ligachev, May 1986
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

The politics of 'nyet': how the Soviet state reformed transnational migration, 1960-1990

Dr Irina Nicorici (New Europe College)
27 November 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre