New Approaches to the Russian Civil War: Empire and the Birth of the Soviet Order
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
Conference Schedule
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast & Coffee
9:00 - 9:30 Introductory Remarks
- Elizabeth A. Papazian, University of Maryland, College Park
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Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland, College Park
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Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Chair of the Department of History
- Maxine Grossman, Director, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
9:30 - 10:45 Book Talk 1
Chair: Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland, College Park
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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
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Samuel Coggeshall, Columbia University, “Large and Small Maps: Drawing the Border Between Revolution and Empire in South Russia”
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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
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Paul Behringer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “Imperial Collapse and the Nikolaevsk Massacre”
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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