• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Mondays at 17:00-18:30
• Organising department: St Antony's College

Monday 12 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Stalin’s Team in the Great Purges: Perpetrators and Potential Victims
  Sheila Fitzpatrick (Sydney)

Monday 19 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Great Fear: Stalin's Intelligence and the Origins of the Terror
  James Harris (Leeds)

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'I wanted that 250 złoty at any price': Revelation and deception in Polish competition memoirs, 1932-1967
  Katherine Lebow (Christ Church, Oxford)

Monday 2 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'From the Enlightened to the Sublime: Soviet Musical Culture under Stalin
  Pauline Fairclough (Bristol)

Monday 9 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Cartography and Cultural Revolution: Maps, Modernity and the New Soviet Man
  Nick Baron (Nottingham)

Monday 16 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Children on the Soviet Home Front: Nutrition, Health, and Mortality
  Don Filtzer (East London)

Monday 23 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Lost in Translation: International Communism and the Barriers of Language
  Steve Smith (All Souls, Oxford)

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Why did the Cold War end when and how it did? And did it?
  Robert Service (St Antony's)

Monday 10 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Nicholas II confined: war, nation and revolution, March 1917 – July 1918
  Robert Service (St Antony’s)

Monday 17 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Equals before the law? Soviet justice, criminal proceedings against Communist Party members, and the legal landscape in the USSR from 1945 to 1953
  Juliette Cadiot (EHESS, Paris)

Monday 24 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Dostoevsky, Zoshchenko and the transformation of criminal voices in 1930s Gulag propaganda
  Sarah Young (UCL-SSEES)

Monday 31 October 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Public speaking and political culture in late Imperial Russia
  Stephen Lovell (King’s College, London)

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Bare life in the Chernobyl zone: food, health and reproduction in the Soviet nuclear aftermath
  Kate Brown (University of Maryland)

Monday 14 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The problem of social rights in Soviet history
  Mark Smith (King’s College, Cambridge)

Monday 21 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sex at the border: the ‘traffic in women’ in Imperial Russia’s Western borderlands, 1875-1910
  Philippa Hetherington (UCL-SSEES)

Monday 28 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Solidarity and its poetics, or How literature informs Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar political relations
  Rory Finnin (Robinson College, Cambridge)

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Living revolutionary dreams: Utopia and the vanguard of 1917
  Andy Willimott (University of Reading)

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Dmitry Likhachev and the dilemmas of Russian cultural nationalism
  Vladislav Zubok (LSE)

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The radical right in revolutionary Russia
  George Gilbert (University of Southampton)

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Children of revolution: Armageddon experienced?
  Catriona Kelly (New College)

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The contradiction of the Russian Revolution: Leninism, violence, and identity, 1918-1938.
  James Ryan (Cardiff University) )

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Seducing the West: selling Soviet revolution through prison socialism
  Max Hodgson (University of Reading)

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Russian Revolution in global perspective: the first decade
  Steve Smith (All Souls)

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Feeling revolution: cinema and the emancipation of the Soviet senses
  Emma Widdis (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The 1923 party controversy: the fall of party democracy and the rise of Stalin
  Professor James Harris (Leeds)