Leaders of the Opposition to Stalin in Defeat, 1927-1936

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Even in defeat, from 1927 until their deaths in 1936, the leading oppositionists who had opposed Stalin in the 1920s, made important contributions both to the Soviet regime and to the opposition itself, now forced underground. Papers will focus on L.B. Kamenev, G. E. Zinoviev, and M. P. Tomsky to reveal how active the opposition to Stalin remained and how significant were the contributions in the late 1920s and early 1930s of major Soviet figures whose careers seemed to have ended prematurely by 1927.

Sub Unit

• History: Russian and Eurasian, since 1924

Organizer

• Alexis Esther Pogorelskin, U of Minnesota-Duluth

Chair

• Janet Rabinowitch, Indiana U Bloomington

Papers

• A Reconstructed Oppositionist: The Downfall and Memory of Grigorii Zinoviev - T. Clayton Black, Washington College

• Writing in Defeat: Kamenev on Pushkin and Chernyshevsky, 1928-1936 - Alexis Esther Pogorelskin, U of Minnesota-Duluth

• Tomsky Outcast: 1929-1936 - Charters S. Wynn, U of Texas at Austin

Discussant

• Barbara C. Allen, La Salle U