Soviet Legacy: Rejecting, Reshaping, Overcoming

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The idea of the panel is to continue ongoing efforts of conceptualizing the “Soviet legacy” as a phenomenon detected in various social, political and cultural spaces in the societies of the former Soviet Union. We will try to get closer to an integral concept of Soviet legacy while approached from the empirical perspectives of various disciplines. We will address both explicit discourses and built-in, persisting practices that can be identified as such legacies, as well as attempts to challenge, reshape and overcome them. We will see how today’s actors in various fields and places are relating themselves to Soviet modernity and experiencing with alternative forms.

Sub Unit

• Sociology, Public Health, Education

Chair

• Nancy Condee, U of Pittsburgh

Papers

• 'Yes' to Reviving the Modernization Discourse: Anti-Soviet Mafia State and Trans-Soviet Society - Sergei Erofeev, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

• Problematising Soviet Legacy: Ethnic Minority Identity in Tatarstan - Gulnaz Sibgatullina, U of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

• Making Sense of Russian-and-Soviet Mixed Legacies: The Decolonial Drive and the Search of an Alternative Modernity in the Caucasus - Alexander Agadjanian, Yerevan State U (Armenia)

Discussant

• Ilya Kukulin, Stanford U