1956: De-Stalinisation and Revolt in Popular Memory

1956: De-Stalinisation and Revolt in Popular Memory

Annual Conference of IAREES

Thursday 11 May

5.00-6.00Registration and coffee

6.00-7.00Judith Devlin (UCD)

‘Burying the Vozhd’: Stalin’s Death and Afterlife.’

Vardui Kalpakian (Rome)

‘Everyday Life in Russia during the Thaw’

Friday 12 May 2006

9.30- 12.30Registration

10.00-11.30The Politics of the Thaw in Moscow

Guido Hausmann (TCD)

‘”V bratskoe sem’e”. The ‘Soviet people’ celebrate the Tricentenary of Pereiaslavl in1954’.

Katya Vladimirov, (KennesawState)

‘The Art of the Arcane: Nikita Khrushchev and the 1957 Plenum’

Geoffrey Roberts (UCC)

‘Khrushchev’s Re-Declaration of the Cold War’

11.30-12.00Coffee

12.00-1.00Guest Speaker: George Schöpflin (MEP)

‘The Complexity of 1956 Fifty Years Later’

1.00-2.00Lunch (‘Insomnia’ in the Quinn building)

2.15-3.45 Revolution and de-Stalinisation in Central Europe

Olena Betlii (Kiev/Illinois)

‘Nostalgia for Europe: 1956 and the Idea of Europe’

Stefan Auer (UCD)

‘Hannah Arendt and the Revolutions in Central Europe: 1956, 1968, 1989’

Christopher Finlay (UCD)

‘Revolutionary Narrative and Legitimacy in Political Thought’

3.45-4.00Coffee

4.00-5.30Film

John Bates (Glasgow)

‘Solidarity on Film’

Laurent Marie (UCD)

‘The Russian New Wave and the de-Stalinisation of Critical Discourse’

Marina Burke (School of Languages and Film Studies, Queen’s University Belfast)

‘The Cranes are Flying’

5.30- 6.30M. Kalatozov, The Cranes are Flying (1957)

6.30-7.30Drinks Reception (Common Room: B104, NewmanBuilding)

Saturday 13 May 2006

9.30-11.00Literature during the Thaw

Jana Fischerova (UCD)

‘Censorship in Czechoslovakia 1956-1968; the Liberalisation of Literature?’

Liudmila Snigerova

‘Varlaam Shalamov: the 1956 Stories’.

Natalya Poltavtseva (Moscow)

The Literary Culture of the Thaw as the End of Grand Style of Stalinism’.

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-1.00De-Stalinisationin Central Europe: Ultimate Consequences

Jacqueline Hayden (Trinity)

‘The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland’

Iain McMenamin (DCU)

‘Semi-Presidentialism and Democratic Consolidation’

Derek Hutcheson (UCD)

’50 Years On: Post-Soviet Interpretations of Politics’.

1.00-2.00Lunch (‘Insomnia’, QuinnBuilding)

2.15-3.45New Perspectives on de-Stalinisation

Polly Jones (SSEES)

‘Learning the Lessons of the Past? Teachers, Students and Pupils confront the Secret Speech.’

Kathleen Smith (Georgetown)

‘The Secret Speech and Youthful Dissent in Russia’

Benjamin Tromly (Harvard)

‘Students and Cultural Exchange in MGU, 1948-1956’

3.45-4.00Coffee

4.00-5.00Concluding Address: Thomas Kabdebo

‘1956: A Time for Everything.’

5.00-6.00 AGM

7.30 Conference Dinner

Layla, 31-32 Pembroke Street Lower, Dublin 2