"For the 50th Anniversary of the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution…: Social and Political Foundations of the Major Ideological Campaigns of the 1965-1970s"

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Workshop “For the 50th Anniversary of the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution...: Social and Political Foundations of
the Major Ideological Campaigns of the 1965-1970s”
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido
February 27 (Mon.)
Venue: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Room 401
Session 1: 10:00-12:00 “Popular” or Grassroots Ideological Narratives
1) Go Koshino (SRC), “Memory of War in Belarus: Literary and Visual Texts”
2) Zbignew Wojnowski (SRC, Nazarbayev University) “Historical Memory and the Ethnic Foundations of Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine during the 1970s”
3) Sanami Takahashi (SRC), “Hidden Attachment to the Time Gone By: Image of the Last Tsar between the West and East”
Discussant: Nikolay Mitrokhinn (SRC, Bremen University) Moderator: Mie Nakachi (SRC)
Session 2: 13:00-14:30 Internal Political and International Campaigns
1) Nikolay Mitrokhin (SRC, Bremen University), “Ideological Campaigns of the Second Half of the 1960s and Consensus Formation of the Brezhnev’s Elite”
2) Felix Herrmann (Bremen University), “Centralization vs. Socialist Competition: Soviet Computer Experts and the Shaping of a New Industry in the 1960s and 1970s”
Discussant: Bruce Grant (SRC, New York University) Moderator: Mari Aburamoto (SRC)
Session 3: 15:00-16:30 Ethnos and Territory
1) Alexander Titov (Queen’s University Belfast), “‘From Ethnos to Eurasia’: How Much Academic Freedom was Allowed in the USSR under Early Brezhnev”
2) Tetsuro Chida (SRC), “Reflexive Modernization in the Soviet Union?: ‘Transformation of Nature’ Concept and the Aral Sea” Discussant: Tomohiko Uyama (SRC) Moderator: Haruka Kikuta (SRC)

Period	27 Feb 2017
Event type	Workshop
Location	Sapporo, Japan
Degree of Recognition	International