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New Approaches to the Russian Civil War: Empire and the Birth of the Soviet Order

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New Approaches to the Russian Civil War: Empire and the Birth of the Soviet Order

Center for Global Migration Studies | College of Arts and Humanities | History | Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies | Russian | School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Friday, April 21, 2023 9:00 am - 5:00 pm St Mary’s Hall, Multipurpose Room

Sponsored by:  Maya Brin Residency Program, Russian Department, SLLC, ARHU

Co-sponsors:
Department of History, Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Global Migration Studies

For access to the pre-circulated papers, email Zhanna Gerus-Vernola vernola@umd.edu

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Conference Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast & Coffee

9:00 - 9:30 Introductory Remarks

9:30 - 10:45 Book Talk 1

Chair: Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Book talk: Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan, author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-21 and the Onset of the Holocaust (2021)

  • Respondent: Piotr H. Kosicki, University of Maryland, College Park (via Zoom)

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30: Panel: Empire, Refugees and Relief Work

Panelists will briefly introduce their papers (2-3 min each), followed by remarks/questions from a discussant (10
min).  Followed by Q&A and discussion.

Chair: Isabelle Kaplan, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Samuel Coggeshall, Columbia University, “Large and Small Maps: Drawing the Border Between Revolution and Empire in South Russia”

  • Jo Laycock, University of Manchester, UK “A State of Relief? Refugees, Revolution and the Armenian Republic 1917-1920"

  • Polly Zavadivker, University of Delaware, “As Good as Forgotten: Jewish Refugees and Relief Work in War and Revolution”

Comment: Eric Lohr, American University

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch

1:45 - 3:15: Book Talk 2

Chair: Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Book talk: Liudmila Novikova, spring 2023 Maya Brin resident, author of An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative: The White Movement and the Civil War in the Russian North (2018)
     
  • Respondent: Laura Engelstein, Yale University

3:15  -3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:30 - 5 pm Panel: Empire, Ethnicity and Violence.

Panelists will briefly introduce their papers (2-3 min each), followed by remarks/questions from a discussant (10 min). Followed by Q&A and discussion.

Chair: Mikhail Dolbilov, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Paul Behringer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “Imperial Collapse and the Nikolaevsk Massacre”

  • Tatiana Linkhoeva, New York University, “Buriat-Mongols ethnopolitics and the Formation of Buriat Autonomy”

  • Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria, Canada, “The Ukrainian Revolution and World War I: Entangled Trajectories”

Comment:  Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania

Add to Calendar 04/21/23 09:00:00 04/21/23 17:00:00 America/New_York New Approaches to the Russian Civil War: Empire and the Birth of the Soviet Order

Sponsored by:  Maya Brin Residency Program, Russian Department, SLLC, ARHU

Co-sponsors:
Department of History, Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Global Migration Studies

For access to the pre-circulated papers, email Zhanna Gerus-Vernola vernola@umd.edu

flyer for conference with list of scholars

Conference Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast & Coffee

9:00 - 9:30 Introductory Remarks

9:30 - 10:45 Book Talk 1

Chair: Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Book talk: Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan, author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-21 and the Onset of the Holocaust (2021)

  • Respondent: Piotr H. Kosicki, University of Maryland, College Park (via Zoom)

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30: Panel: Empire, Refugees and Relief Work

Panelists will briefly introduce their papers (2-3 min each), followed by remarks/questions from a discussant (10
min).  Followed by Q&A and discussion.

Chair: Isabelle Kaplan, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Samuel Coggeshall, Columbia University, “Large and Small Maps: Drawing the Border Between Revolution and Empire in South Russia”

  • Jo Laycock, University of Manchester, UK “A State of Relief? Refugees, Revolution and the Armenian Republic 1917-1920"

  • Polly Zavadivker, University of Delaware, “As Good as Forgotten: Jewish Refugees and Relief Work in War and Revolution”

Comment: Eric Lohr, American University

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch

1:45 - 3:15: Book Talk 2

Chair: Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Book talk: Liudmila Novikova, spring 2023 Maya Brin resident, author of An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative: The White Movement and the Civil War in the Russian North (2018)
     
  • Respondent: Laura Engelstein, Yale University

3:15  -3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:30 - 5 pm Panel: Empire, Ethnicity and Violence.

Panelists will briefly introduce their papers (2-3 min each), followed by remarks/questions from a discussant (10 min). Followed by Q&A and discussion.

Chair: Mikhail Dolbilov, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Paul Behringer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “Imperial Collapse and the Nikolaevsk Massacre”

  • Tatiana Linkhoeva, New York University, “Buriat-Mongols ethnopolitics and the Formation of Buriat Autonomy”

  • Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria, Canada, “The Ukrainian Revolution and World War I: Entangled Trajectories”

Comment:  Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania

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Organization

Contact

Zhanna Vernola
vernola@umd.edu

Cost

FREE