Kennan Institute var vært for sit sidste arrangement i anledning af 100-årsdagen for den russiske revolution i 1917. Talerne fokuserede på den provisoriske regerings politik, den bolsjevikiske sejr og de politiske og militære konsekvenser, der fulgte i umiddelbar forlængelse af den. Seminaret blev efterfulgt af et bogforedrag fra kl. 16.00 – 17.30 af William Taubman, som diskuterede sin nye biografi om Mikhail Gorbatjov.
Seminaret er blevet generøst støttet af redaktionen for bogserien Russia’s Great War and Revolution, en multinational videnskabelig indsats, der har til formål at ændre forståelsen af Ruslands “kontinuum af kriser” i årene 1914-1922 fundamentalt. Bogforedraget er et arrangement i Washington History Seminar-serien, der sponsoreres i fællesskab af National History Center of the American Historical Association og Wilson Centers History and Public Policy Program.
Agenda:
10:00 – 12:00 Panel 1: The Continuum of Crisis and Possibility of Change.
Professor William Rosenberg, University of Michigan, “Political Narratives and the Problem of Power in 1917”
Professor Dan Orlovsky, Southern Methodist University, “The Rise and Fall of the Provisional Government”
Professor Dan Orlovsky, Southern Methodist University, “The Rise and Fall of the Provisional Government”
Dr. William Pomeranz, Kennan Institute, “Investigating the Revolution in Real Time: The Murav’ev Commission and the Investigation of the July Days”
Professor Laurie Stoff, Arizona State University, “The October Revolution and the Dilemmas of Gender”
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch Time Key Note Speaker: Professor Angela Stent, Georgetown University
1:15 – 3:15 Panel 2: Oktober 1917 og dens efterspil
Professor Christopher Read, University of Warwick, “Lenin and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power”
Professor Eric Lohr, American University, “The Changing Face of Russian Citizenship in 1917”
Professor John Steinberg, University of Warwick, “The Changing Face of Russian Citizenship in 1917”
Professor John Steinberg, University of Warwick, “Lenin and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power”, Austin Peay State University, “The Disintegration of the Russian Army and the Search for Peace”
Professor Liudmila Novikova, Higher School of Economics, “Anti-Bolshevik Alternatives in the Russian Civil War”
4:00 – 17:30 Gorbatjov: Hans liv og tid (RSVP separat)
Professor William Taubman, Amherst College (Emeritus)