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RESC Monday Seminar
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
The Centre organises seminars, addressed by visiting speakers, which have been weekly in term-time throughout the past seventy years. They have drawn in the most outstanding scholars in the field who come to Oxford both from the countries which are the object of study and from Western Europe, North America, Australia and elsewhere.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser:
Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Timing: Mondays at 5pm
Organising department: Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre
Talks:
Monday 20 October 2025
Our dear friends in Moscow: the inside story of a broken generation
Date: 20 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Irina Borogan (King's College London),
Dr Andrei Soldatov (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 27 October 2025
Measuring and making change: opinion polls and market transition in post-socialist Russia and Belarus
Date: 27 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Alexa von Winning (University of Tübingen)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 November 2025
Elections in the era of the State Duma (1906-17): a reassessment
Date: 3 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Stephen Lovell (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 10 November 2025
Economic nationalism in one country: reform and disintegration in the Soviet Union, 1987-1990
Date: 10 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Jonathan Raspe (University of Zürich)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 November 2025
To feed and to mobilize: land reform in early Soviet Uzbekistan
Date: 17 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Beatrice Penati (University of Liverpool)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 24 November 2025
Speaking in tongues. The Soviet nationalities policy and minority protection in interwar Europe
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Olena Palko (University of Basel)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 1 December 2025
Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine
Date: 1 December 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Hosts:
TBA
Editor:
Richard Ramage
