Konferencija: 14-asis Vilniaus simpoziumas „Leaders of the Soviet Republics between Politics and Personality: Biographies, Characters, Connections and Decisions“.

Lietuvos istorijos institutas gruodžio 4–5d. kviečia į 14-ąjį Vilniaus simpoziumą „Leaders of the Soviet Republics between Politics and Personality: Biographies, Characters, Connections and Decisions“.
Konferencija anglų kalba vyks Lietuvos istorijos instituto Renginių salėje (Tilto g. 17, Vilnius).

Programa:

Thursday, December 4

10:00-10:20 Opening Remarks

10:20-11:50 1st session. NKVD and Local Party Leaders during and after Stalin's Time
Timothy K. Blauvelt, American Councils for International Education/Ilia State University, Georgia: "Subjectivity and Imposture in the Motivations of NKVD Perpetrators of the Stalinist Terror"
Michael Loader, University of Glasgow, UK: "Did Leadership Matter? Baltic First Secretaries under Khrushchev"
Marius Ėmužis, Vilnius University: "The Modus Operandi of Antanas Snieckus: Caution, Moderation, and Shadowiness"

11:50-13:20 Lunch

13:20-14:50 2nd session. Soviet Nomenklatura and Cultural Elite in Baltic respublics
Vladas Sirutavičius, Lithuanian Institute of History: "Khrushchev's Thaw, Literature Governance and the First Secretary of the Lithuanian Communist Party, Antanas Sniečkus, 1957 – 1963"
Martinš Kaprans, University of Latvia: "Different Paths to Influence: Jānis Škapars, Gunārs Priede, and the Soviet Latvian Field of Power"
Violeta Davoliūtė, Lithuanian Institute of History: "To Erase or Preserve? Contested Legacies of Soviet Baltic Writers"

14:50-15:10 Coffee break

15:10-16:10 3rd session. The Middle Cohort of First Secretaries of the Republics (1960s and 1980s)
Natalya Chernyshova, Queen Mary University of London, UK: "Behind the Official Facade: the Inner World of Petr Masherau, Belarus"
Roman Podkur, Institute of History of Ukraine: "Владимир Щербицкий – украинский коммунист или русский интернационалист?"

Friday, December 5

10:00-11:00 4th session. The Last Generation of Soviet Leaders. Part I. Baltic Republics
Daina Bleiere, University of Latvia, Latvia: "Anatolijs Gorbunovs: Six Years of Political Evolution (1985–1991)"
Saulius Grybkauskas, Lithuanian Institute of History: "Between Ideology and Reality. Algirdas Brazauskas as Rational Communist Actor"

11:00-11:20 Coffee break

11.20-12.50 5th session. The Last Generation of Soviet Leaders. Part II. Central Asia Republics
Isaac Scarborough, Leiden University, Netherlands: "An ‘Honorable’ Bolshevism? Conservative Communism in Tajikistan’s Party Buro, 1961-1992"
Riccardo Cucciolla, University of Naples "L'Orientale", Italy: "Being a „sekretar nol“ in a period of Rapid Change. The Rise and Fall of Inomjun Usmonxo‘jayev (1983-1988)"
Rasa Čepaitienė, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius: "(Post)Soviet Leadership in Turkmenistan: Continuities and Disruptions"

12:50-13:20 Discussion

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