Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Events

Petr Masherau monument
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Petr Masherau: from partisan to party leader in Soviet Belarus

Dr Natalya Chernyshova (University of Winchester)
10 October 2022 - 5:00pm
Harvesting cotton in Tajikistan, 1979
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

White gold, reaped and sown: Tajikistan's cotton monoculture across the Soviet divide

Dr Isaac Scarborough (Leiden University)
17 October 2022 - 5:00pm
Soviet Latvian poster
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Exploiting Khrushchev's thaw: power struggles in Soviet Latvia

Dr Mike Loader (University of Glasgow)
24 October 2022 - 5:00pm
Soviet sculpture painted in Ukraine colours
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Ukrainian long-distance nationalism and history writing during the Cold War: canvassing the blind spots

Dr Per Anders Rudling (Lund University)
31 October 2022 - 5:00pm
Shevchenko/Aktau in Kazakhstan
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

A tale of pineapples and palm trees: how the Soviet atomic city of Shevchenko became the Kazakh oil town of Aqtau (1980s-2010s)

Dr Stefan Guth (Heidelberg University)
7 November 2022 - 5:00pm
Lenin statue in Ukraine colours
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

The legacy of Soviet institutions in post-Soviet Ukraine

Dr Nataliya Kibita (University of Edinburgh)
14 November 2022 - 5:00pm
Female worker Lviv
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Making and breaking socialist welfare from below: narratives of Lviv female workers

Dr Iryna Sklokina (Center for Urban History, Lviv)
21 November 2022 - 5:00pm
Peace Temple Church, Kyiv
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

'Genocide is taking place in our country!' Kyiv's revival Baptists and the religious Cold War, 1960s to 1980s

Dr Miriam Dobson (University of Sheffield)
28 November 2022 - 5:00pm
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