Events
ABC of Socialism
The goal of the workshops is to bring together scholars who have been critically rethinking the postwar history of Soviet and Eastern European socialism(s) by focusing on core concepts that organize its conceptual frameworks, policy, and practice: plan, market, value, nature, welfare state, inequality, growth, NTR (Scientific-Technological Revolution), global capitalism, knowledge, beauty, individual/collective, and more. The workshops start with a critical interrogation of the state of these concepts in present-day Western historiography and Russian and Eastern European academies. Mired in Cold War tropes or all together missing, they capture vividly the underdeveloped and politicized state of economic, social, and intellectual history of the postwar Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. To counter this state of things, the workshops’ participants, drawing on their research, undertake a conceptual reconstruction of the intellectual apparatus—ABC of socialism—that the Soviet and Eastern European societies worked out during the postwar decades and which conceptual insights and practical applications, peculiarities and shortcomings carry relevance for thinking about social alternatives in the twenty-first century.
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Participatnts & Topics
Socialism and Urban Planning
Michael Brinley, Princeton University, USA
Socialism: From Primitive Accumulation to Flexible Production
Alina-Sandra Cucu
Socialism and the Soviets
Aleksandr Fokin, RANEPA
Socialism and Nationality
Bryan Gigantino
Socialism and Nature
Roman Gilmintinov, European University at St. Petersburg
Socialism and Knowledge
Alexey Golubev, University of Houston, USA
Socialism and Planning
Yooseong Heo, Duke University, USA
Socialism and Environmental Management
Alexander Herbert
Socialism and Self-Management
Adela Hîncu, University of Vienna
Socialism and Welfare State
Galina Ivanova, Russian Academy of Sciences
Socialism and Regional Administration
Artemy Kalinovsky, Temple University, USA
Socialism and Inequality
Anna Krylova, Duke University, USA
Socialism and Labor
James Nealy
Socialism and Market
Elena Osokina, University of South Carolina, USA
Socialism and Beauty
Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University, USA
Socialism and NTR (Scientific-Technological Revolution)Mikhail Piskunov, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Tyumen State University, Russia / Timofey Rakov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg
Socialism and Value
Brian Porter-Szucs, University of Michigan, USA
Socialism and Global Capitalism
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, HKU, China
Socialism and Decolonization
Łukasz Stanek, University of Michigan