Interdisciplinary History II: The Soviet Union

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel and its companion (“Interdisciplinary History I: The Russian Empire”) continue an ongoing effort to stimulate cross-disciplinary discussion of political, economic, and social history. This panel includes three papers, which focus on key themes in Soviet economic and political history, including female agricultural labor in the periphery, the backgrounds of political leaders, and the impact of Stalinism. Reflecting the theme of our panels, the papers represent a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Sub Unit

• Economic History/Economics/Business

Chair

• Jonathan Raspe, U of Zurich (Switzerland)

Papers

• The Authoritarian Origins of Progress: Demand for Female Labor in Agriculture and Public Goods Provision in the Soviet Union - Khasan Redjaboev, U of Wisconsin-Madison

• The Origins of Post-Soviet Autocracy in the University and Creative Union - Matthew Reichert, Harvard U

• Soviet Women, Soviet Industry, and Social Welfare in the 1970s - James Allen Nealy, New York U

Discussants

• William Henszey Pyle, Middlebury College

• Dmitrii Kofanov, U of Pittsburgh