Occupations and Liberations in World War II: New Research on the Soviet Experience
International Conference
Occupations and Liberations in World War II:
New Research on the Soviet Experience
October 31- November 1, 2014
Organizers: International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences – Higher School of Economics (HSE); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Russian History Seminar of Washington, DC/Georgetown Institute for Global History.
Friday, October 31: McShain Lounge, McCarthy Hall
10:00 am-12:00 pm. Panel I. Contours of German/Axis Occupation: RSFSR, Ukraine, Transnistria, Poland
Papers
Seth Bernstein (HSE), "Occupation of Riazan’ and its Aftermath."
Jared McBride (Columbia), "Peasants into Ethnic Cleansers: The OUN-UPA and the Cleansing of Volhynia, 1943-1944."
Jadwiga Biskupska (USHMM/Sam Houston State University): "Nazi Occupation Policy in Warsaw: Planning and Improvisation."
Vladimir Solonari (University of Central Florida), "Nationalist Utopianism, Orientalist Imagination, and Economic Exploitation: Romanian Plans and Policies in Transnistria."
Commentator: Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University)
12:00-1:00. Lunch Break.
1:00-2:30 pm. Panel II. The Stalinist Home Front and Soviet-Style Liberation
Papers
Kristy Ironside (HSE), "The Soviet ‘Free Market’ at War."
Oleg Khlevniuk (HSE), "Restoring Power: Administrative Practices in the Liberated Soviet Territories."
Elana Jakel (Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), "Soviet Jewish Experiences of Liberation in Ukraine."
Commentator: Eric Lohr (American University)
2:30-3:00. Coffee Break
3:00-4:30. Panel III. Sovietization and Alternating German/Soviet Conquests: Consequences and Entanglements
Papers
Ilya Kukulin (HSE), "Expansion as Revolution Renewed: An Approach to Soviet Poetry of 1939-1941."
Franziska Exeler (HSE), "Disentangling Nazi Occupation, Determining Guilt in Post-1944 Soviet Belorussia."
Tarik Amar (Columbia University), "Transforming a Borderland City in Conflict and Collusion: Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists in Lviv 1939-1947."
Commentator: Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University).
Saturday, Nov. 1. ICC 662
11:00 am-12:00 pm. Roundtable. 1945: Seventy Years Later (planning meeting for an international conference)
Moderator: Oleg Budnitskii (HSE)
Liudmila Novikova (HSE)
Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University)
Daniel Newman (Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM)
12:00-2:00 pm. Lunch break
2:00-4:00 pm. Roundtable: New Directions for the Study of German/Axis Occupation, Stalinism, and the Holocaust on the Eastern Front
Moderator: Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University)
Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University)
Lynne Viola (Toronto University)
Charles King (Georgetown University)