Late Soviet Village: People, Institutions, and Objects
RHN 72/2018 | Event
https://www.ruralhistory.eu/newsletter/2018/rhn-2018-072
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Organisers: University of Zurich (History Department/East European History) & German Historical Institute in Moscow
31 May – 2 June 2018, German Historical Institute, Vorontsovskaya Ulitsa 8, Building 7, Moscow
Late Soviet Village:
People, Institutions, and Objects. Between “Rural” and “Urban” Life Styles
Conference programme
Thursday, May 31
8:30-9:00
Welcome address & introduction:
Late Soviet Village: Narratives, Approaches, and Research Agenda
Nikolaus Katzer (GHI Moscow) & Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller (University of Zurich)
9:00-11:00
Panel I: Experts, projects and discourses on rural development
Chair: Alexandra Oberländer (FSO Bremen)
Nikita Pivovarov (Russian Academy of Science, Institute of World History, Moscow)
Projects and Utopias: The Experts’ views on agricultural development in the late Soviet period (late 60s – 70s), in Russian
Ulrike Huhn (FSO Bremen)
In search of a usable village. Ukrainian Ethnographers and the invention of new Soviet rituals in the late Soviet Union
Aleksandr Nikulin (Russian Academy of National Economy, Centre for Agrarian Studies, Moscow)
The “Village diary” of Efim Dorosh (1954–1968): On rural-urban transformations in Rostov, in Russian
Discussant: Katja Bruisch (Trinity College, Dublin)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-14:00
Panel II: Ideology, propaganda, and late Soviet rural subjectivities
Chair: Nikolaus Katzer (GHI Moscow)
Nikolay Mitrokhin (FSO Bremen)
When did the village become “Soviet”? Some remarks to the level of ideologization of rural communities in the Soviet Union between the 40s and the 70s, in Russian
Aleksandr Fokin (South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk)
Late Soviet rural daily life in the official and popular writings, in Russian
Anatoly Pinsky (EU at St Petersburg)
The Empirical Imperative: How to Know the Post-Stalin Village
Anna Sokolova (University of Zurich)/Tatiana Voronina (University of Zurich)
«To think like communists»: productive Socialism in the minutes of Party meetings, in Russian
Discussant: Sergei Alymov (Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow)
14:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-17:00
Panel III: Construction of Late Soviet village in visual arts and cinema
Chair: Kirsten Bönker (University of Bielefeld)
Tatiana Dashkova/Boris Stepanov (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
The village comedies: The decline of the genre, in Russian
Gábor T. Rittersporn (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Between Soviet Stereotypes, Christian Symbolism and Russian Mysticism: Painting the Postwar Village
Odeta Rudling (University of Greifswald)
Performing the Village: “Authenticity” and Rural Aesthetics in the Soviet Lithuanian Folk Revival
Discussant: Anatoly Pinsky (EU at St Petersburg)
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-19:00
Panel IV: Late Soviet rural everyday practices I: Work and economy
Chair: Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller (University of Zurich)
Alexandra Oberländer (FSO Bremen)
Of Hens and Eggs: Money in the Soviet Countryside
Isabelle Ohayon (CNRS, Paris)
Subsidiary holdings and ritual economy in Soviet Kazakh villages in the 70s-80s, in Russian
David Celetti (U of Padua)
Living the Countryside in late Soviet Kazakhstan. The Village of Tolbuchino as a Case Study (1970–91)
Discussant: Nikolay Mitrokhin (FSO Bremen)
20:00 Conference dinner
Friday, June 1
8:30-10:30
Panel V:
Late Soviet rural everyday practices II: Networks & modes of socialising
Chair: Tatiana Voronina (University of Zurich)
Svetlana Adonyeva (St Petersburg State University)
The village in the Russian North in the 70s: the close circle and other forms of solidarity, in Russian
Mariana Arkhipova (Moscow State University)
Work collectives the in late Soviet village: The Example of the Russian North, in Russian
Ruprecht von Waldenfels (University of Oslo/University of Jena)/Nina Dobrushina (HSE, Moscow)/Michael Daniel (HSE, Moscow)
Reconstructing linguistic differentiation and change in the late Soviet village
Discussant: Galina Orlova (EHU Vilnius/ SFEDU Rostov-on-Don)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-13:00
Panel VI: Late Soviet rural everyday practices III: Leisure, holidays & Soviet rituals
Chair: Anna Sokolova (University of Zurich)
Kirsten Bönker (University of Bielefeld)
Watching TV in the Late Soviet Village: Leisure Practices, TV Programs and Emotions
Simon Belokowsky (Georgetown University)
A vin p’ie: Drinking and Violence in the rural and urban Chernozem
Andrei Tutorski (Moscow State University)
Sviatiná: The phenomenon of a late Soviet holiday village, in Russian
Discussant: Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller (University of Zurich)
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00
Panel VII: Late Soviet rural/urban divide I: Boundaries vs continuums
Chair: Sandra Dahlke (GHI Moscow)
Svetlana Boltovska (Herder Institute, Marburg)
Nuclear Power Plants, Socialist Urbanization and the Ukrainian Polesia between “Rural” and “Urban” Life Styles, 1965–1991
Aleksandr Osipov (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu)
The Settlement of Piaozerskii – a model boundary between the city and the village, in Russian
Camille Robert-Boeuf (University of Paris Nanterre)
The soviet dachas in Kazan: a case to interrogate new urban-rural networks
Discussant: Alexei Golubev (University of Houston)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:30
Panel VIII: Late Soviet rural/urban divide II: Boundaries vs continuums
Chair: Svetlana Boltovska (Herder Institute, Marburg
Lidia Prisac (Academy of Sciences of Moldova)
Between the village and the city: The Wedding in the Moldavian SSR in the late Soviet decades, in Russian
Aleksei D. Popov (University of Simferopol, Crimea)
«To hold the holiday people»: Urban tourists, local people and unorganized sea coast recreation in late Soviet Union, in Russian
Discussant: Andrei Tutorski (Moscow State University)
Saturday, June 2
9:00-11:00
Panel IX: Late Soviet rural material culture: DIY practices and representations
Chair: Tatiana Voronina (University of Zurich)
Vadym Steciuk (University of Kamyanets-Podilsky)
Homemade agricultural machinery and material culture of late Soviet village (based on materials from the Western Ukraine), in Russian
Erin Hutchinson (Harvard University)
Collecting Material Culture from the Village in the Soviet Sixties
Alexey Golubev (University of Houston)
Architectural heritage movement and the reinvention of the North Russian village in late Soviet and post-Soviet periods
Discussant: Zinaida Vasilyeva (University of Neuchâtel)
11:30-12:00
Concluding remarks and future research
Nikolaus Katzer (GHI Moscow)/Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller (University of Zurich)
12:00 End of conference
Websites:
latesovietvillage.com
www.dhi-moskau.org/de/veranstaltungen