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Lecture ‘Closed Cities’ versus ‘Open Society’? De-Stalinization and Urbanization in Soviet Belarus

The Department of Historical Sociology, Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to the lecture ‘Closed Cities’ versus ‘Open Society’? De-Stalinization and Urbanization in Soviet Belarus by Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen).


The lecture takes place within the regual lecture series "Historical Sociological Confrontations" on Tuesday, Feb. 27th 2018 at 5pm (University area Jinonice, building A, room 2080).


Annotation:

At the 20th Party Congress Khrushchev called for a rational distribution of industry and a regulation of migration flows. The interaction of the City Soviets with local factory directors and the interconnections between the granting of residency permits and the awarding of accommodation increasingly led to a Soviet society which was structured around patron-client relationships and territorial stratification.


Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn is Professor for Eastern European History at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen. His main research interests cover history of historiography, urban history, environmental history and superstition and nonconformism. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles: Russische Geschichtswissenschaft von 1880 bis 1905. Pavel N. Miljukov und die Moskauer Schule. Köln-Weimar-Wien 1998; Minsk - Musterstadt des Sozialismus. Stadtplanung und Urbanisierung in der Sowjetunion nach 1945, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2008; «Minskii fenomen». Gorodskoe planirovanie i urbanizaciia v Sovetskom Soiuze posle Vtoroi mirovoi voiny, Moskva 2013; Der Vampir. Ein europäischer Mythos, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2016; Wisent-Wildnis und Welterbe. Geschichte des polnisch-weißrussischen Nationalparks von Białowieża, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2017 (with Aliaksandr Dalhouski and Markus Krzoska). Prof. Bohn’s current research projects are Polesie as a place of intervention (Leibniz Community 2015-2018), Vlad Dracula. Biography and edition of documents (DFG 2016-2019) and Minsk as contact and conflict zone in the interwar period (LOEWE Foundation 2017-2020).


Event start 27 February 2018 at 5:00 PM
Event end 27 February 2018 at 7:00 PM
Type of event Lecture
Organiser Department of Historical Sociology
Organiser's contact email ale.markova@email.cz
Event website https://hiso.fhs.cuni.cz/HISOENG-45.html
Venue University area Jinonice, building A, room 2080
Target group Academic community
Reservation No
Admission fee No
Disabled access Yes
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