Russian Revolution
CONFERENCE ON WAR, REVOLUTION, CIVIL WAR: EASTERN EUROPE 1917-23
UCD CENTRE FOR WAR STUDIES
War, Revolution, Civil War: Eastern Europe 1917-23
25-26 March 2011
Venue: Clinton Institute, Seminar Room
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Friday, 25 March 2011
13:00 Registration
13:30 Welcome and Introduction
13:45 – 15:30 Panel 1: The War as Imperial Challenge – Russia
Chair: Nikolaus Katzer (German Historical Institute Moscow)
Semen Gol’din (Hebrew University Jerusalem): The Jewish Policy of Military and Civilian Authorities as a Case Study of the Systemic Crisis in the Russian Empire, 1914-1917
Alexander Semyonov (Smolny Institute St. Petersburg/ Ab Imperio) World War as the Civil War and Civil War as the World War: The Radicalization of Political Visions in the War Time Russian Empire
Boris Kolonicky (European University St. Petersburg) “Nicolas the 3rd”: Images of the Commander in Chief Grand Duke Nikolaj Nikolaevich (1914-1915)
15:030– 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:30 Panel 2: Revolution and Civil War – Russia
Chair: Katja Bruisch (German Historical Institute Moscow)
Vladimir Shishkin (Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk) WWI as a factor of Russian Revolution and Counterrevolution
Yulia Yurievna Khmelevskaya (Center for Cultural History Studies, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk) A la Guerre com a la Guerre: the American Relief Administration and experience of the First World War in Fighting the famine in early Soviet Russia, 1921-1923
Dmitrij Simonov (Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk) Russia’s Military Potential in 1918
19:30 DINNER
Saturday, 26 March 2011
09:30 – 11:00 Panel 3: The Baltics and Finland
Chair: Tomas Balkelis (University College Dublin)
Juha Siltala (Helsinki University) Terror in the Finnish Civil War
Aldis Minins (University of Latvia) Manifestations of the Civil War in Latvia, 1918-1920
Taavi Minnik (Talinn University) Terror and Repressions in Estonia, 1918-1919
11:00– 11:30 TEA / COFFE BREAK
11:30 -13:00 Panel 4: Poland
Chair: Julia Eichenberg (University College Dublin)
Frank Golczewski (University of Hamburg): The Wars after the War. The Fight for the Polish Eastern Border 1918-1920
Jan Snopko (Białystok University): The influence of the Russian revolution on the policy of Joseph Pilsudski and the fate of the Polish Legions (1917-1918)
Rüdiger Ritter (Free University Berlin): Germans and Poles fighting against regional identity: The Confrontations in Upper Silesia after World War I from the perspectives of participants, the regional, national, and international public
13:00– 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:00 – 14:30 Panel 5: The Balkans
Chair: John Paul Newman (University College Dublin)
Mark Biondich (Carleton University) Preliminary title: The Balkans Revolution, War, and Political Violence
Alexander Korb (University of Leicester) “Terrorists interned” Ustasha nationalists, revisionist powers and the breakup of Yugoslavia
Uğur Ümit Üngör (University of Utrecht) A Ten-year War? Post-war Violence in the Ottoman-Russian Borderlands
Dmitar Tasic (Institute for Strategic Research, Department of Military History) Some Common Attributes of Political Violence in Albania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria
14:30 COFFEE / TEA BREAK
15:00 – 16:00 Rountable Discussion
Chair: Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin)
For information about attendance, contact: christina.griessler@ucd.ie
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