Saint Petersburg State University History Faculty
Program for the International Research Conference:
"Late Stalinism and Khrushchev Epoch in the Soviet Union: 1945-1964"
Time and Place: 7-8 October 2010, Saint Petersburg State University
7 October 2010 - Opening of the Conference - Petrovskii Hall, Saint Petersburg State University (Main Building, Second Floor, 10:00AM)
8 October 2010 - History Faculty SPbGU (Mendeleevskaia Line, house 5, auditorium 70, 10:00AM)
Conference Language: Russian
Conference Organizing Committee:
Chairman: Andrei Dvornichenko, Dean of the History Faculty, (SPbGU)
Co-Chairman: Mikhail Khodiakov - Department of Contemporary History - History Faculty
- St. Petersburg State University (SPbGU) Martin Blackwell - Department of History and Anthropology, Gainesville State - University System of Georgia (USA)
Members of the Committee: Igor Verniaev, Sergei Kashchenko, Evgenii Petrov, and Ludmila Riabova - History Faculty (SPbGU)
Introductory Remarks: * Dr. Andrei Dvornichenko - Dean of the History Faculty - Saint Petersburg State University * Dr. Martin J. Blackwell - Gainesville State - University System of Georgia (USA) * Foreign Affairs Committee of the Saint Petersburg City Government
Conference Rules:
Introductory Remarks - 5 minutes Participants' Presentation - 20 Minutes
7 October 2010 - Opening of the Conference - Petrovskii Hall - Saint Petersburg State University (Main Building, Second Floor, 10:00AM)
Late Stalinism (Chair - Professor Mikhail Khodiakov, Discussant - Victor Ivanov)
Rafail Ganelin, (Russian Academy of Sciences - Institute of History, St.
Petersburg) "Stalin and Cosmopolitanism."
Nikita Lomagin, (St. Petersburg State University) "In Expectation of Change: Popular Attitudes in Leningrad in 1945."
Alexander Vakser, (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, St. Petersburg) "Stalin's Death: The Drama, The Celebration, The Passing of an Epoch."
Martin Blackwell, (Gainesville State - University System of Georgia - USA) "A Regime City after the Nazis: The Return of the Soviets to Kyiv, Ukraine, 1943-1946."
Serhy Yekel'chyk, (University of Victoria - Canada) "Postwar Ukraine: National Culture 'Stalin Style'."
Victor Ivanov, (St. Petersburg State University) "The *Anonimshchiki* and the Authorities from the 1930s to the 1950s (The Use of Compromising
Materials as a Survival Method During the Epoch of State Violence)."
James Heinzen, (Rowan University - USA) "Corruption and Campaigns against Bribery During Wartime and Postwar Stalinism, 1943-1953."
Igor Govorov, (The University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the
Russian Federation - St. Petersburg) "Corruption Within the Conditions of Postwar Stalinism."
Coffee Break - 13:10 -14:00
Mikhail Zelenov, (The Volga-Viatskii Academy of State Service, Nizhny Novgorod) "Perestroika in the Apparatus of the TsK VKP(b), July 1948-October 1952."
Abdulla Daudov, (St. Petersburg State University) "From the History of the Deportations of the Chechen and Ingush Peoples."
Vladislav Kutuzov, (St. Petersburg State University) "A.A. Zhdanov and the TsK KP(b) Resolution on the Journals Zvezda and Leningrad."
David Brandenberger, (University of Richmond - USA) "To the Aid of Those
Studying the History of the VKP(b): The Fate of the *Short Course on the
History of the VKP(b)* and the "Soviet Patriotism" Campaign, 1944-1964."
Mikhail Khodiakov, (St. Petersburg State University) "People and Money: The Activities of the Leningrad Paper Factory Gosznak in 1946-48."
Iuri Krivosheev, (St. Petersburg State University) "The Reconstruction of the Industrial Potential of the Karelian Peninsula in the 1940s."
Elena Tverdiukova, (St. Petersburg State University) "The Battle Against
Crime During the Currency Reform of 1947."
Alisa Amosova, (St. Petersburg State University) "On the 'Leningrad Style' of Leadership and the Formation of the Party and Economic Nomenclatura in the Neva City."
8 October 2010 History Faculty SPbGU (Mendeleev Line, house 5, auditorium 70, 10.00)
The Epoch of N.S. Khrushchev in the USSR (Chair - Dr. Mikhail Khodiakov, Discussant - Dr. Nataliia Lebina)
Nataliia Lebina, (St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance) "The Khrushchev Epoch's New Language: Discourse and Reality."
Evgenii Petrov, (St. Petersburg State University) "The Methodology of the Analysis of Soviet Reality in the Thoughts of American Area Studies from the 1950s."
Boris Starkov, (St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance), "The Rehabilitations: The Start of De-Stalinization."
Jeffrey Jones, (University of North Carolina - Greensboro, USA) "The Politics of Reconstruction (Based off of Materials from Rostov-na-Donu).
Christine Varga-Harris, (Illinois State University - USA) "Khrushchevka,
Kommunalka: Socialism and Daily Life During the Thaw."
Steven Harris, (University of Mary Washington - USA) "Khrushchevka: A Soviet Answer to the Housing Question."
Coffee-Break 13:10-14:00
Alexander Chistikov, (Russian Academy of Sciences - Institute of History, St. Petersburg) "Is it Any Good, Over There, Across the Ocean? The Impressions of Soviet People about Life in Foreign Countries as Found in Their Personal Writings and Presentations (from the 1950s and 1960s."
Susanne Schattenberg, (University of Bremen - Germany) "A Conversation Between Two Deaf Mutes? The Culture of Khrushchev's Foreign Policy and Adenauer's Visit to Moscow in 1955."
Miriam Dobson, (University of Sheffield - UK) "An Age of Anxiety: Three Cases of Samosud, 1957-1966."
Anatoli Kashevarov, (St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University) "Economic Aspects of the Soviet State's Anti-Church Campaign, 1958-1964."
Polly Jones, (University College London - School of Slavonic and East European Studies - UK) "From 1937 to 1941: Memories of World War II in Soviet Literature and Readers' Letters of the Thaw."
Denis Kozlov, (Dalhousie University - Canada) "The Responses of Soviet Readers of the 1960s to A. I. Solzhenitsyn's *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*."
