Challenging the Social Order: Revolution, Reform and Transformation Under and After Socialism
Building, managing and deconstructing socialist states and societies appears to be a circular process of radical social and economic transformation. Thus, collectivization, arguably one of the most ambitious attempts implemented by a state to alter the socio-economic order, can be been as a starting point for major crises such as famines, population displacement and deportation, and the disruption of the countryside. Perestroika, enacted as a response to the decline of the Soviet economy, served as a catalyst for painful transition processes in Central and Eastern Europe, the introduction of neoliberal reforms and steep rise of social inequalities. Similarly, Soviet informal practices have been interpreted both as a reaction to the deep economic crisis of the late 1980s and as constituting a major cause of yet another crisis, the failure of the rule of state and economic transition.These challenges to the social order have had seminal political consequences, such as Soviet industrialization and the rise of Stalinism, the post-war establishment of Communist rule in Central Europe, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the introduction of political pluralism under perestroika, the August 1991 putsch and the collapse of the Soviet Union, shock therapy, the 1998 financial crises in Russia, the colored revolutions and the return of authoritarianism.
The Summer School seeks to examine these moments of disruption of the existing social order when state and society are challenged in their institutions, rules, values and principles.
PROGRAM
Wednesday 3 July – Arrival
Short visit of the city of Uman
Arrival to Mykolaiv
Thursday 4 July – The Birth of the Soviet Social Order
Welcoming from Oleksandr Pronkevych and representatives of the administration of the Petro Mohyla Black Sea University
Introductory Remarks by Dominique Arel (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada, darel@uottawa.ca)
Alissa Klots (Rutgers U, US, alissaklots@yandex.ru) And Any Kitchen Maid Will Be Able to Rule the State: Domestic Service and the Soviet Revolution
Lyudmila Kuznetsova (Perm State U, Russia, lyukuznetsova@yahoo.com). Care as Enticement: Social Policy in the Leisure Sphere
Aleksandr Reznik (Perm State National Research U, Russia, reznik@comparativestudies.ru). The Bolshevik Left Opposition, 1923-24
Elizaveta Zhdankova (European U St. Petersburg, Russia, ezhdankova@gmail.com). The Development of a New Culture of Leisure:Cinema in Soviet Russia in the NEP Period
Work in progress presentation: Mayhill Fowler, Kremlin Cabaret: the Imperial South, the Soviet North, and Transnational Dynamics in Soviet Culture
Visit: Ancient, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Mykolaiv
Friday 5 July – Elites, Norms, and Social Mobility
Jesko Schmoller (Humbolt U, Berlin, Germany, j.schmoller@gmx.net). Clientelism and the State in Uzbekistan
Andrada-Mihaela Istrate (U of Bucharest, Romania, andrada.istrate@sas.unibuc.ro). Caritas, Casinos, and Sports Betting: Money and Morality in Contemporary Romania
Sophie Lambroschini, Lonely Cowboys: Understanding the Professionalization of Soviet Capitalist Bankers in a Command Economy (1974-1991)
Visit: The German Community in Mykolaiv district
Saturday 6 July – Memory Politics
Marharyta Fabrykant (Belarusian State U, Minsk, marharyta.fabrykant@gmail.com). Remembering the Long Nineteenth Century on the Former Western Outskirts of the Russian Empire
Viktoriia Svyrydenko (Karazin Kharkiv U, Ukraine, viktoria-sviridenko@yandex.ru). The Myths of the “Turkish Yoke” and of the “National Revival” in the Politics of Memory of Socialist Bulgaria
Work-in-Progress: François-Xavier Nérard ; Building a Cemetery for Stalinism: the Mass Graves of Levashovo
Visit: Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet
Katharina Haberkorn (Andrassy U, Budapest, Hungary, haberkornk@gmail.com). Cultural Memory and Its Practical Aspects: Monuments and Heritage Sites in Western Ukraine
Vitalii Ogiienko (Institute of National Memory, Kyiv, Ukraine, ogienko@gmail.com). The Politics of Historization and Historical Culture in Contemporary Ukraine
Work in Progress presentation: Oleksandr Pronkevych (Petro Mohyla Black Sea U of Mykolaiv, oleksandrpronkevych@yahoo.com). Don Quixote and homo sovieticus: an attempt at manipulating literary imagery
Sunday 7 July – Ideology and Regime Change
Guillaume Grégoire-Sauvé (Sciences Po, Paris, France, guillaume.gregoiresauve@sciences-po.org). The Transformation of Political Thought on Democracy in Russia during Perestroika
Stefan Zaleski (Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw, Poland, pzaleski@is.uw.edu.pl). The Solidarity Movement and the Ideology of Civil Society: Rediscovering the Concept of a Self-Governing Republic
Work in Progress Presentation : Mychailo Minakov. The Return of the Ideology of Capitalism in Post-Soviet States
Religion & Society
Alla Marchenko (Kyiv Shevchenko U, Ukraine, alla_marchenko@list.ru). Visions of Cross-Cultural Tolerance in Post-Soviet Ukraine: The Case of the Annual Hassidic Pilgrimage
Rasa Pranskeviciute (Uppsala U, Sweden, rasa.pranskeviciute@crs.uu.se). Communal Utopias Within Nature-based Spiritualities in the Post-Soviet Region: the Visions of an Ideal World Among Vissarionites and Anastasians
Visit: River cruise
Monday 8 July – Political Economy
Raluca Mateoc (U of Fribourg, Switzerland, raluca_mateoc@yahoo.com). Decollectivization in Romania in the 1990s: peasants’ perspectives and the strategies of land tenants in two Transylvanian villages
Dilorom Akhmedzhanova (U of Wroclaw, Poland, dahmedzhanova@eu.spb.ru). Post-Socialist Housing Reforms in Poland and Russia
Ewa Dabrowska(U of Erfurt, Germany, dabrowska@hwwi.org). Diversification of Russia’s economic structure by means of oil rents. The fate of an idea.
Work in Progress Presentation : Monica Eppinger. Boomtown and Ghost Town: Methods for Researching Human Effects of Economic Change.
Tuesday 9 July
Visit of the Nuclear Missile Museum in Pervomaysk
Departure
