National
Identity in Russia from 1961 : Traditions &
Deterritorialisation
‘SOVIET
MEMORY’
REMEMBERING
THE SOVIET UNION
-
MEMORY,
TRADITIONS, AND IDENTITY, 1917-1991
11 April
2008
European
University, St Petersburg
(Zolotoi zal, EUSPb, 3 Gagarinskaya St)
This
one-day conference -
organised as part of the project ‘National Identity in
Russia from 1961: Traditions and Deterritorialisation’ (www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/russian/nationalism) - explores several themes in the
history of memory and traditions in the Soviet era (including both the early
Soviet and the late Soviet periods). These include: the role of memory in
establishing revolutionary legitimacy; the struggle with the ‘backward’
past. and, on the other hand, the celebration of pre-revolutionary ‘Great Russian’ traditions; the heritage of
pre-Soviet cultural institutions in the Soviet period and the
institutionalisation of memory; cultural practices connected with the
preservation and dissemination of tradition; and recollections of the past in the post-Soviet period. The working
languages of the conference will be Russian and English. All are welcome to
attend.
Organisers:
Albert
Baiburin, Andy Byford, Catriona Kelly
Sponsors:
Arts
and Humanities Research Council
European Humanities Research
Centre,
University of Oxford
PAPERS
FROM THIS CONFERENCE ARE NOW PUBLISHED IN
Neprikosnovennyi
zapas No. 64 (2009, No. 2)
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HERE
FOR ACCESS TO THE ONLINE VERSION OF THE JOURNAL
Programme
10.00 Opening of the Conference
10.10-11.20 Session 1: Revolutionary
Memory
Boris
Kolonitsky (EU-SPb). ‘Admiral Kolchak as a “Son of Lieutenant Schmidt”’
Steve
Smith (Essex) ‘Saving the Soul in Soviet Russia’
11.20-11.40
Coffee break
11.40-12.50
Session 2: Institutions of Memory, Memory of Institutions I
Albert
Baiburin (EU-SPb) ‘The Pre-History of the Soviet Passport (1918-1932)’
Svetlana Bykova (State University of the Urals) ‘The Punishment of Memory: Recollections of the Past in Testimony from NKVD Records’
12.50-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.10
Session 3: Institutions of Memory, Memory of Institutions II
Boris
Firsov (EU-SPb) ‘Leningrad Collectors as a Phenomenon of Cultural History’
Catriona
Kelly (Oxford) ‘“Are We to ‘Correct’ History?” Debates on the
Preservation of Monuments in Leningrad, 1961-1991’
15.10-15.30
Coffee break
15.30-16.40
Session 4: Narrating the Soviet Past I
Anna
Kushkova (EU-SPb) ‘Attitudes to the Soviet Past as Expressed in Memories of
Food Shortages’
Tatiana
Voronina (EU-SPb) ‘Remembering the Baikal-Amur Railway Line: Autobiographical
Interviews about Experiences on BAM and their Dominant Themes’
16.40-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.10
Session 5: Narrating the Soviet Past II
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Cambridge) and Olga Sosnina (Kremlin Museum) ‘Post-Socialism as a Chronotope: Comments from the Visitors’ Book at the Exhibition of Gifts to Soviet Leaders’
Andy
Byford (Oxford) ‘“The Last Soviet Generation” in Britain’
Программа
10.00
Открытие
конференции
10.10-11.20
1:
Революционная
память
Борис
Колоницкий (ЕУСПб)
Адмирал
Колчак как
сын
лейтенанта
Шмидта
Стив
Смит (Эссекс)
Большевики и
наследие
народного
православия
11.20-11.40
Кофе-брейк
11.40-12.50 2:
Институты
памяти и
идентичности I
Альберт
Байбурин (ЕУСПб) Из
предыстории
советского
паспорта (1918-1932)
Светлана Быкова (Уральский ГУ) «Наказанная память»:свидетельства о прошлом в следственных материалах НКВД
12.50-14.00
Обед
14.00-15.10 3: Институты
памяти и
идентичности II
Борис
Фирсов (ЕУСПб)
Ленинградские
коллекционеры
как
культурно-исторический
феномен
Катриона Келли (Оксфорд) «"Исправлять" ли историю?» Споры об охране памятников в Ленинграде последних десятилетий советской власти
15.10-15.30
Кофе-брейк
15.30-16.40 4:
Рассказы о
советском
прошлом I
Анна
Кушкова (ЕУСПб)
Отношение к
советскому
прошлому
через
воспоминания
о
продовольственном
дефиците
Татьяна
Воронина (EУСПб)
Память о БАМе.
Тематические
доминанты в
биографических
интервью с
бывшими
строителями
16.40-17.00 Кофе-брейк
17.00-18.10 5: Рассказы о
советском
прошлом II
Николай Ссорин-Чайков (Кембридж), Ольга Соснина (Государственный музей-заповедник Московского Кремля) Постсоциализм как хронотоп: советскость в отзывах посетителей выставки даров вождям советской эпохи
Анди
Байфорд (Оксфорд)
«Последнее
советское
поколение» в
Великобритании
Enquiries:
russian-nationalism@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
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January 10, 2010
