Programme

The year 2011 brought about a real «parade» of anniversaries of the contemporary national history:

• Twenty years since the establishment of the presidency institute in Russia
• Twenty years since the August Putsch in Moscow;
• Twenty years since the ratification of the treaty for the creation of the Commonwealth of independent states;
• Twenty years since publication of many important acts concerning the economic reforms in the USSR and Russia;
• Twenty years since the ratification of the treaty between USSR and USA on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (СНВ-1)
• etc.

At the end of the XX century major geopolitical, social, economic changes influenced considerably the people’s destiny not only on the territory of the USSR, but also almost on the whole Eurasian continent. The contemporary state of the studied period’s source base, the level of the methodology’s development and research tools enable to analyse in a more detailed way the cause and effect relations of the «time of changes» events, to estimate the unique or generic character of our country’s past comparing to the key trends of the world history.

The 1991 was the year of complex decisions and ambiguous results. For still a long time contemporary and future generations will be arguing about «what happened to us and the Motherland». But today we understand already sharply as never before that our historical memory and the society’s attitude towards the own history has the direct influence on the future path’s choice. Whom do we consider ourselves, thinking about the past: the winners or the losers? The leading or the led? Knowing to anticipate the difficulties and to take all the necessary decisions, or only being late and mistaken? The society’s capacity to manage its future depends on the answers to these questions.

The conference not only provides with the opportunities for the exchange of ideas and findings related to the issues under discussion, but also aims at joining the efforts of various scholars of the Humanities in order to study interdisciplinary issues that are related to understanding of the causes and effects of the major historic processes at the end of the XX century.

On the Agenda:

• lectures of invited speakers (outstanding scholars)
• academic reports of scholars
• panel discussions

Matters for panel discussions:

• For the 20 years’ anniversary of presidency in Russia: the history and the leaders
• The history of the last decade of the XX century: a look from CIS
• The historical memory as a factor of the personality’s, nation’s, country’s identity
• The methods of the visual representation of the data in teaching and research on the contemporary history

Conference framework:

• Length: one day
• Plenary sessions: one
• Workshops: four
• Plenary reports: 5 to 6.
• Length of plenary reports: up to 20 minutes
• Questions to plenary speakers: 1 to 2 minutes
• Answers of plenary speakers: up to 3 minutes
• Main reports on workshops: 1 to 2
• Length of main workshop reports: up to 20 minutes
• Statements on each workshop: up to 10
• Length of statements on each workshop: up to 10 minutes
• Intervals: one

Working languages: Russian and English

Publication of Conference proceedings:

• abstracts of reports and statements will be published in Russian and English before the conference and distributed to all participants.
• final proceedings of the conference (records of speeches, texts of reports and statements) will be published in Russian and English after the conference.

Tentative Procedure of International Conference

Academic reports and statements

The Steering Committee of International Conference «History of Contemporary Russia: Twenty years after (1991 — 2011)» will be grateful to receive information about your participation in advance and requests to provide the title and abstract of your report or statement (maximum 200 words) on or before August 15, 2011.

Final texts of reports and statements (font Times New Roman 12 pt, single spacing, maximum 20 and 10 pages correspondingly, excluding bibliography, appendices and personal details on authors) should be provided on or before September 20, 2011.

You are kindly requested to send your documents to the following e-mail: sv-2002-1@yandex.ru

If you have any questions concerning the proceedings of the conference, its administration and your visit, please consult: