• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Dan Healey , Roy Allison
• Timing: MONDAYS AT 5.00pm

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Marxism, nationalism, and intervention: Georgia and the Russian Revolution, 1918-21
  Stephen Jones (Mount Holyoke College)

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Russian conquest of Central Asia, 1814-1907. Competitive emulation and the myth of the 'Great Game'
  Alexander Morrison (New College)

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The taste of others: tourism and the internationalization of Soviet cuisine
  Diane Koenker (UCL-SSEES)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Codifying the ‘laws and customs of war’: Imperial Russia and the 1874 Brussels Conference
  Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Contested development: the Soviet Union in the competition for West Africa’s modernity, 1955-1968
  Alessandro Iandolo (St Catherine’s)

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - EU-Russian relations: from the past to the future
  Tatiana Romanova (St Petersburg State University)

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Is Russian foreign policy revisionist? Comparing approaches to Ukraine and Syria
  Roy Allison (St Antony’s)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Authoritarianism as an institution: emulation among states in Central Asia
  Filippo Costa Buranelli (St Andrews)