Miami University

Working Papers: Paper Archive

Through conferences and special events at Miami University, the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies has been able to create an archive of working papers dating back to March 22, 2001.

2001

Imagining Russia

Brandenberger, David, Harvard University, The reemergence of Russocentrism in the 1930s: was it more than a ‘Great retreat'?
Brudny, Yitzhak, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Democracy and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia
Brumberg, Abraham, editor emeritus of Problems of Communism, Images of Russia from within the Bund
Dawisha, Karen, Director, Havighurst Center, Miami University, Havighurst Center Inaugural Address
Galtz, Roz, Miami University, Thoughts on studying russian everyday life in the post-Soviet era
Herrera, Yoshiko, Harvard University, The imagined economy in Russia
Jackson, William, Miami University, The image of Russia in international relations theory
Jacobs, Dan, Miami University, Images of Russia in the West
Kennedy, Michael, University of Michigan, Envisioning Russia from disciplinary and national borderlands
Kollmann, Nancy Shields, Stanford University, Enduring and Changing Aspects in the image of Russian despotism
Lieven, Anatol, Carnegie Institute for International Peace, Image of the West in Russian Nationalism
McFaul, Michael, Stanford University, Can Russia escape our image of its past?
Neuberger, Joan, University of Texas-Austin, Do Russians need a powerful Tsar? Eisenstein's images in Ivan the Terrible
Prizel, Ilya, University of Pittsburgh, Russian Nationalism: Threat or Chimera?
Simonia, Nodari A., Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow, Putin's Russia: Succession, Return to the Past or Beginning of a New Era?
Stoner-Weiss, Kathryn, Princeton University, Imagined geographies in center-periphery relations
Thurston, Robert, Miami University, The dehumanization of the Russian people in Western images of Russia in the early Cold War
Tismaneanu, Vladimir, University of Maryland, Fear of Russia, or Fear for Russia in East European images
Touronok, Stanislav, Moscow State University & Postdoctoral Fellow, Havighurst Center, Corruption as a driving force and as a checks-and-balances mechanism of Post-Soviet politics
Touronok, Stanislav, Moscow State University & Postdoctoral Fellow, Havighurst Center, Playing with Images on the Pastures of Russian Politics
Von Hagen, Mark, Columbia University, The Problem of Legacies in Understanding Contemporary Russia
Woll, Josephine, Howard University, Can Russia live without Aleksandr Nevsky?
Ziolkowski, Margaret, Miami University, The Shifting Representation of Stalin in Russian Art and Literature

Social Norms and Social Deviance

Bradatan, C., Pennsylvania State University, Suicide before and after the Fall of Communism
Kolodzei, Natalia, Kolodzei Art Foundation, New York, Gia Edzgveradze: Georgian-Soviet Hybrid within Nonconformist Circles
Kowalsky, S., University of North Carolina, Female Criminality in Revolutionary Russia
LaPierre, B., University of Chicago, "This is a Public Matter:" the Anti-Hooligan Campaign, 1953-1964
Levesque, J., University of Toronto, Collective Farm Idlers and the Soviet State after World War II
Metzo, K., Indiana University, Vodka, Spirits, and the Market
Packocinaite, E., Central European University Warsaw, Reducing the Problem of Youth Crime in Eastern Europe
Pap, A., New York University, National Minorities and Ethno corruption
Paynich, T., University of California, Riverside, Black-Market Patriotism in the 1930s
Retish, A., Ohio State University, The Peasantry and the Soviet Revolutionary Tribunals

2002

Reconfiguring the Humanities in the Post-Soviet World

Burleigh-Motley, Marian, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Tchaikovsky’s St. Petersburg in Art and Architecture
Dergatcheva, Anna, Central European University, Emergence of Meaning and Cross-Cultural Translation in Vladimir Nabokov’s Translation and Commentary of Alexander Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin”
Fox, Pamela, Miami University, Tchaikovsky in America
Gasparov, Boris, Columbia University, Lost in a Symbolist City: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades and Andrey Biely’s Petersburg
Grintser, Nikolai, The Russian University for the Humanities, Moscow, Structuralizing Classics: Modern Theories in Contemporary Russian Classical Philology
Kostalevsky, Marina, Bard College, Nadezhda von Meck: Patronage and Passion
Loseff, Lev, Dartmouth College, Brodsky and Akhmatova, a Russian Tradition
Mitchell, Paul, Miami University, Fire and Water Imagery in Nikita Mikhalkov’s “Burnt by the Sun”
Morson, Gary Saul, Northwestern University, Narrativeness
Sanabria, Sergio, with architecture students, Miami University, Tatlin and the Tower of Babel: Architecture Presentation
Shapiro, Gavriel, Cornell University, Vladimir Nabokov and the World of Art
Shcherbenok, Andrey, UC Berkeley, Literary History after Poststructuralism (Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, Nabokov)

10 Years Later: Shock Therapy and Its Opponents, Who was right?

Dawisha, Karen, Director, Havighurst Center, Miami University, Political Learning in Postcommunist Elections
Friedman, Leonid, Moscow State University, The CIS Ten Years Later: Economic and Social Changes
Gaidar, Yegor, former Prime Minister of Russia, Subjective and Objective Forces in Post-Socialist Economic Reform
Gaidar, Yegor, former Prime Minister of Russia, Ten Years of Transition in Russia: Political and Economic Challenges
Gregory, Paul R., University of Houston, What Should We Have Expected from the Soviet Period: Should Soviet Specialists Have Been Consulted?
Hanson, Stephen, University of Washington, Russian Democracy in Comparative Perspective
Khrushcheva, Nina, Senior Fellow of World Policy Institute, Dept. of International Affairs, New School of Social Research, Lessons of transition: cultural contradictions of post-communism and the future of Russian liberalization
Mau, Vladimir, Director, Working Center for Economic Reform, Russia, Economic and Political Results of 2001 and Prospects for Consolidation of Economic Growth
Meliantsev, Vitali, Moscow State University and Havighurst Fellow, Russia (1991-2001): Reassessment of Macroeconomic Performance in Comparative Perspective
Petrov, Nikolai, Russian government working group on regional problems, Federalism Russian-Style and the Evolution of Center-Region Relations
Remington, Thomas, Emory University, Democratization and the Problem of Governance: exploring the effect of the change in political institutions on the quality of governance in Russia
Sheinis, Victor, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, The Russian Constitution of 1993 in Historical Perspective

Placing Gender in Postcommunism

Brzozowska, Anna, Central European University, Belarus' gendered national construct
Grigar, Ewa, School of the Art Institute, The gendered body as raw material for women artists of Central Eastern Europe in the Post-Communist decade
Hromadzic, Azra, University of Pennsylvania, From object to subject: Bosnian war rapes and the emergence of female voices
Kapusta-Pofahl, Karen, University of Minnesota, "Who would create a Czech feminism?" Challenging assumptions in the process of creating relevant feminisms in the Czech Republic (for a copy, contact the author at kapu0004@umn.edu)
Lyon, Tania Rands, Princeton University, How patriarchal is Post-Soviet Russia? Gender beliefs and work-family choices
Shevchenko, Iulia, Research Fellow, European University at St. Petersburg (Russia), and a 2002-2003 Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Representation of Women's Concerns in the Russian State Dumas: Voting Patterns of Female Legislators
Taraban, Svitlana, York University, The internet bride: Ukrainian women in virtual space
Weiner, Elaine, University of Michigan, Rational economic (wo)men: Czech female managers in the Post-Socialist era
Woodcock, Shannon, Sydney University, Violence, gender, and the construction of the Roma as Other in postcommunist Romania
Zatusevski, Ecaterina, Columbia University, Women in the postcommunist society: Business lady, victim of perestroika or a toy for men?

Havighurst Humanities Lecture Series, 2002-2003

Brumfield, William Craft, Tulane University, St. Petersburg and the Art of Survival
Goscilo, Helena, University of Pittsburgh, Unsaintly St. Petersburg: Visions and Visuals
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Venclova, Tomas, Yale University, A Meeting of Two Poets: Joseph Brodsky's "Nunc Dimittis"

2003

Imagining St. Petersburg, Humanities Symposium

Buckler, Julie, Harvard University, The City's Memory: Texts of Preservation and Loss in imperial St. Petersburg
Kharkhordin, Oleg, European University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg as Res Publica: Common Things and Commonweal
Khazan, Vladimir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, St. Petersburg in Russian Emigré Poetry Between Two World Wars
Norris, Stephen, Miami University, Petersburg Patriotism in 1812: Lubok Artists and Russian National Identity
Nina Perlina, Indiana University, The Culture of the Seige in Leningrad

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Cynthia Simmons, Boston College, The Culture of the Seige in Leningrad
Senkevitch, Anatole, University of Michigan, The Architectural and Urban Legacy of Petersburg: Projecting Modernity's Challenge
Elizabeth Valkenier, Columbia University, St. Petersburg: Capital of Russian Fine Arts
Richard Wortman, Columbia University, St. Petersburg as Symbolic Center

Russia in Global Context: Peoples, Environments, and Policies

Campbell, Craig, University of Alberta, Evenki Nomads of the Siberian Taiga
Golovnev, Andrei, Institue of History and Archaeology, Ekaterinburg, Russia in the Circumpolar North: An Overview
Gvozdeva, Elena, Russian Academy of Sciences, Young Leaders as the Critical Factor in Framing Sustainable Development (Russian Siberia as the Case)
Hancock, Nelson, American Museum of Natural History, Regimes of classification and the paradox of Kamchadal Heritage
Loukacheva, Natalia, University of Toronto, Arctic governance and legal systems of Greenland and Nunavut
Murphy, Jonathan, University of Cambridge, Civil society and social capital in the post-socialist Russian north
Round, John, University of Leicester, Marginalized for a lifetime? The everyday experiences of gulag survivors in post-Soviet Madagan
Thompson, Niobe, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Native whites: contesting local identities on Russia’s resource frontier
Ventsel, Aimar, Estonian Literary Museum, People won't dance if they have nothing to eat: do economic transformation and centrally planned cultural revival fit together?

2004

The Reel Russia: Cinema and Outsiders, Humanities Symposium

Anemone, Tony, College of William and Mary, About Freaks, Killers & Real Men: The Cult of the Outsider in Aleksey Balabanov’s Films
Graffey, Julian, University College London, Coming to Watch, Coming to Fight, Staying to Learn: The Representation of Visits to the Soviet Union by Foreigners in Soviet Films, 1924-1935
Neuberger, Joan, University of Texas at Austin, Drag Queens, Clowns, Slugs & Other Foreigners: Eisenstein’s Cosmopolitan Menagerie
Norris, Steve, Miami University, Fools & Cuckoos: The Outsider as Insider in Recent Russian War Films
Sulkin, Oleg, film critic for Novoye Russkoye Slovo, Ways of Identifying the Enemy in Today’s Russian Film
Torlone, Zara, Miami University, A Portrayal of People of ‘Caucasus’ in the Soviet Comedy of the 1960s & ‘70s
Widdis, Emma, University of Cambridge, ‘Dressing the Part’:Clothing Otherness in the Cinema of the 1920s &‘30s
Woll, Josephine, Howard University, Under the Big Top: America Goes to the CIRCUS

Problems of the Postcommunist State

Argenbright, Robert, Miami University, Moscow’s Relic Spaces: Where Redevelopment Bogs Down
Bickford, Andrew, UC-Berkeley, Life in the Veterans’ Group: East German Army Officers, The Military, & Citizenship in the New German State
Bogdonova, Lena, European University, St. Petersburg, Citizen-and-power Interaction: Transforming Scenario: On the Material of the Citizens’ Complaints
Cash, Jennifer, Indiana University-Bloomington, The Social Role of Art & Artists in Post-Soviet Moldova: Cultural Policy, Institutional Reform, & Europeanization
Dunlop, John, Stanford University, Putin as a State Builder
Georgiadis, George, Cambridge University, External Determinants of Domestic Institutional Change: The Impact of EU Policies on the Patterns of Post-Communist Economic Transformation
Rogers, Douglas, Miami University, From State Farm to State Administration? The Fate of Municipalization Reforms in the Rural Perm Region
Roudakova, Natalia, Stanford University, Journalists as Politicians: “Independent” Media and the Privatization of Politics in Russia in the 1990s
Scherpereel, John, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sub-national Actors, European Integration, & State Reconfiguration in Postcommunist Europe
Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz, Miami University, The Oligarchs Are Coming! Capital Expansion & Center Periphery Battles in Post-Communist Russia
Suchland, Jennifer, University of Texas at Austin, Democratic Citizenship, Sexual Difference & the Postcommunist Russian State

2005

Thinking In/After Utopia

Antonova, Clementa, Oxford University, The Reception of Florensky’s Works in Russian and Soviet Scholarship
Bradatan, Costica, Miami University, Jan Patocka’s 'Socratic Art of Dying'
Cermanova, Eva, Indiana University, The Radical Catholicism of Vaclav Benda: An Enfant Terrible of Czech Dissidence
Craiutu, Aurelian, Indiana University, Democracy and Philosophy in Eastern Europe: A Tocquevillian Perspective
Epstein, Mikhail, Emory University, The Platonic Drama of Russian Thought: Ideas against Ideocracy
Guran, Letitia, College of William & Mary, Aesthetics: a Modus Vivendi in East Central Europe?
Ijabs, Ivars, University of Latvia, “Politics of Authenticity” and/or Civil Society
Kovacevic, Natasa, University of Florida, Orientalizing Communism: The Shifting Boundaries of Europe in Brodsky & Milosz
Larson, Jonathan, University of Michigan, Critiques of Impure Reason? Contextualizing Postsocialist Slovak Intellectual Conflict
Murer, Jeffrey Stevenson, Swarthmore College, A Rereading of the Critical Sociology of the Budapest and Frankfurt Schools
Nepomnyashchy, Catharine, Columbia University, 20th Century Russian Utopian and Dystopian Fiction as a Mode of Philosophical Discourse
Oushakine, Serguei, Columbia/Princeton Universities, From Russian Tragedy to Vital Forces: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity
Tismaneanu, Vladimir, University of Maryland, The Demise of Leninism and the Future of Liberal Values
Tuckerova, Veronika, City University of New York, Totalitarian Language: Fidelius vs. Havel vs. Rorty

2006

Arenas of Eurasian Identity

Dickinson, Jennifer, University of Vermont, Narrator, Audience, and Performance in Rural Ukrainian Story Telling
Kotkin, Stephen, Princeton University, Eurasia before Eurasianism
Levin, Theodore, Dartmouth College, Innovation and Neotraditionalism in the Performance of Central Asian Music
Macfadyen, David, UCLA, Tuning the Family Piano: Some Stately Harmonies in Recent Russian and Uzbek Film
Naroditskaya, Inna, Northwestern University, Mugham Jazz from Father to Daughter
Rouland, Michael, Miami University, From Soviet Opera to Soviet Film: Replaying the Legend of The Silk Maiden
Scholl, Tim, Oberlin College, Caucasian ‘National’ Ballets in the Post Soviet Period
Stites, Richard, Georgetown University, 'Virgin Lands': The Movie

Orienting the Russian Empire

Babiracki, Patryk, Johns Hopkins University, Explaining the Empire: The Soviet Press Politics in Poland, 1945-1960
Basilov, Yuri, European University, Concept of Eurasia within the Intellectual Culture of Russian Empire
Breyfogle, Nicholas, Ohio State University, Living Empire: Understanding Multiethnic Eurasia in the Modern Era
Clement, Victoria, Western Carolina, Pages from the Periphery: Turkmen Literacy at the Intersection of Muslim and Socialist Modernities, 1904-1928
Fierman, William, Indiana University, Thirty Five Years of Observing Eurasia: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same?
Glebov, Sergei, Smith College, Defining Empire Culturally: Languages of Unity and Diversity in the Teaching of Eurasianism
Kropacheva, Elena, Hamburg University, Russian Foreign Policy Toward Ukraine: A Case of New Imperialism?
Laruelle, Marlene, Woodrow Wilson Center, Empire as the Natural Solution for the Post-Soviet Space
Morozova, Irina, International Institute for Asian Studies, Elites, Reforms and Power Institutions in Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Outer Mongolia in the 1920-1940s: a comparative historical analysis
Peyrouse, Sebastien, Woodrow Wilson Center, The Imperial Minority: An Interpretive Framework for the Russians in Central Asia?
Rottier, Peter, Cleveland State University, Kazak Intellectuals’ Perceptions of Russians in Late Imperial Russia
Shulman, Elena, Texas Tech University, Women as Soviet Empire Builders in the Late 1930’s

2007

Dream Factory of Communism

Ciobanu, Monica, SUNY-Plattsburgh, Criminalizing the Past and Re-constructing Collective Memory: the Romanian Truth Commission
DeJong-Lambert, William, CUNY, The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research
Hirschfeld, Katherine, University of Oklahoma, ‘Speaking Chinese’ in the Special Period: Cold War Rhetoric, Economic Recentralization and Popular Resistance in Cuba
Honey, Larisa, CUNY, Pluralizing Practices in Soviet Moscow: Russian Alternative Practitioners Reclaim Individualism
Klumbyte, Neringa, Miami University, The Cold War in the EU market: "Euro" and "Soviet" brands in Lithuania
Livshin, Olga, Northwestern University, "Make Love, Not War" Soviet-Style: Sexuality as a Challenge to Cold War Ideology in the Prose of Aleshkovskii and Popov
Magnusdottir, Rosa, University of Iceland, Imagining America: Propaganda, Patriotism, and Popular Attitudes in the Postwar Soviet Union
Mincyte, Diana, University of Illinois-Urbana, Subsistence and Power in Brezhnev’s Lithuania: How Peasants Changed the Face of Agriculture
Paretskaya, Anna, New School for Social Research, Middle Class without Capitalism? Socialist Ideology and Post-Collectivist Discourse in Late Soviet Union
Robinson, Harlow, Northeastern University, Sidekicks and Stereotypes: Russians and their Image in the Movies
Seipp, Adam, Texas A&M University, Building the Cold War Frontier: GIs, West Germans and Refugees in Unterfranken, 1945-60
Shcherbenok, Andrey, Columbia University, Asymmetric Warfare: Cold War Cinema in the U.S. and U.S.S.R
Skryzhevska, Yelizaveta, Miami University, Inequalities of Regional Development in Ukraine: Causes, Consequences, and Prospects
Tompkins, David, University of Tennessee, Orchestrating Engagement: Popular Reception of Socialist-Realist Music in East Germany and Poland
Vassileva-Karagyozova, Svetlana, University of Kansas, Voluntary Social Marginalization as a Surviving Strategy in the Post-Communist Polish Initiation Novels
Zarecor, Kimberly Elman, Iowa State University, Building Socialism: Architectural Practice and the Logic of Industrial Production in Postwar Czechoslovakia

2008

The Role of Law in the Construction & Destruction of Democracy in Postcommunism

Beers, Daniel, Indiana University-Bloomington, The Rule of Norms: Examining the Institutional Culture of the Judiciary in Romania and the Czech Republic
McCarthy, Lauren, University of Wisconsin-Madison, A Comparative Analysis of Russian and American Law Enforcement Practices on Human Trafficking
Mikeladze, Davit, Central European University, “Russian-Speaking Minorities” in the Baltic States: A “Fifth Column” or An Integral Part of the Local Society?
Partlett, William, Stanford University, Understanding Post-Soviet Resource Nationalism and Contractual Renegotiation: The Demand for Foreign Capital and Contractual Stability
Popova, Maria, McGill University, Institutional Insulation of the Judiciary as an Obstacle in the Fight Against Corruption: Evidence from Bulgaria
Schenk, Caress, Miami University, Russia’s Changing Migration Policies
Trochev, Alexei, University of Wisconsin, After the Revolution: Political Competition & Judicial Disempowerment
Tulbure, Narcis, University of Pittsburgh, Values in Exchange: Ambiguous Ownership, Collective Action & Changing Notions of Worth in Romanian Mutual Funds Industry
Wilson, Sophia, University of Washington, The Role of Courts & Police in the Development & Suppression of Human Rights in the Post- Soviet World
Young, Patricia, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Romanian Market Governance: Why No Capture by Business Interests?

2009

1989: Then and Now

Igor Stiks, University of Edinburgh
“The Berlin Wall Crumbled Down Upon Our Heads!” 1989 and Violence in Socialist Multinational Federations

Marko Grdesic, University of Wisconsin Madison
Do All Regimes Get the Critical Junctures they Deserve? Yugoslav Workers and Nationalists in 1989

Mariya Chelova, Humboldt University
Making Sense of the History: How pre-Soviet Legacies Contribute to the Collapse of the USSR

Nona Shakhnazarian, Kuban Social and Economic Institute
Before and After 1989: National Ideologies, Survival Strategies and Gender Identity in the Political and Symbolic Contexts of Karabakh Movement

Sevan Beurki Beukian, University of Alberta
The Politicization and Revival of Nationalist Movements in the 1980s Soviet Union: a Glance at the Caucasus Region

Eunice Blavascunas, University of Washington
Youthful Struggles and Time Lags in the Forested Belarusian/Polish Borderland

Joshua First, University of Michigan, 'The Problem of One Generation:' Cinema, 1989 and the Invention of the Sixties in Ukraine

Gregory F. Domber, University of North Florida
Émigré Networks, the National Endowment for Democracy, and American Support to Solidarność

Oana Godeanu, Miami University
Deconstructing Ostalgia - the National Past between Commodity and Simulacrum in Wolfgang Becker’s Goodbye Lenin! (2003)

Artur Lipiński, Kazimierz Wielki University
The Meanings of 1989. The Right Wing Discourse in Post-Communist Poland

2010

The Gulag in History and Memory

Alan Barenberg (Texas Tech University)
Resistance and the Everyday: Reconsidering the Vorkuta Prisoner Strike of 1953

Vsevolod Bashkuev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
“Based Upon Deeply Rooted Hostile Views…”: Anti-Soviet Sentiments and Resistance among the Special Settlers in Buryat-Mongolia, 1940s-1950s

Wilson Bell (Dickinson College),
Sex and Soviet Power in the Gulag in Western Siberia

Julie Draskoczy (University of Pittsburgh)
The Put’ of Perekovka: Transforming Lives at Stalin’s White-Baltic Sea Canal

Oxana Ermolaeva (State University Higher School of Economics, Russia),
Making a Career in the GULAG: Square Dance with the Devil or a Normal Feature of Soviet Life?

Maria Galmarini, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Defending the Rights of Gulag Prisoners: The Story of the Political Red Cross between 1918 and 1938

Elza-Bair Guchinova (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Images of Captive Memory. Memories of Japanese POWs of the Gulag

Jeffrey Hardy (Princeton University)
Gulag Tourism: Khrushchev’s “Show” Prisons in the Cold War Context, 1954-1959

Josephine von Zitzewitz (Oxford University)
The “Virtual Museum of the Gulag” – Integrating Material Memory