Russia’s Failed Democratic Revolution, February-October, 1917: A Centennial Reappraisal

Organized by Nanovic Institute Fellow and Professor of History, Semion Lyandres, Russia’s Failed Democratic Revolution, February-October, 1917: A Centennial Reappraisal will meet at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway on March 10-12, 2016.

The conference (and subsequent volume) will bring together world’s leading revolutionary scholars from the United States, UK, Germany, Israel, Scandinavia, and Russia whose contributions will integrate the latest research based on much freer access to the previously closed Russian archives and challenge many of the conventional interpretations. At the same time, the conference will not promote any particular point of view or “school” over any other (for example, social history will not be privileged over political history and cultural studies or the study of nationality, empire, and identity will not dominate over political or social history). The papers will be able to reflect the impact on the study of the Russian Revolution made by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of new authoritarian regime of President Putin. The conference will exemplify and promote the new opportunities for collaboration between Western and Russian historians as we approach the centennial anniversary of Russia’s failed democratic revolution.

For more information, contact Professor Semion Lyandres at Semion.Lyandres.1@nd.edu.

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