|
International conference on "Reform Communism" since 1945 in comparative historical perspective. 22-23 October 2011, School of History, University of East Angia, Norwich, UK. 22 speakers will discuss aspects of "reform communism" in Britain, Western and Eastern Europe and the USSR. There will be 6 sessions with presentations, questions and discussion. Attendance is free to registered participants, but space is limited. To register, contact Francis King on f.king@uea.ac.uk or Matthias Neumann on m.neumann@uea.ac.uk. Organised by UEA School of History in conjunction with Socialist History, journal of the Socialist history Society, with support from BASEES.
Confirmed participants:
Hans Asenbaum, “Reform Communism from below - Alternative Democratic Ideas of the Russian Informal Movement during the Perestroika Period”
Pat Devine, “Reform Communism: A Personal Memoir from within the CPGB”
Marko Fuèek, “Tito’s Youth: Titoism and its Application through People’s Youth Organization, 1948-1952”
Jana George “Socially critical films in the 1960s/70s in Yugoslavia from a historical perspective”
Daniel Gordon, “The French Communist Party and Immigration, 1961-1981: Failure or Success?”
Marina V. Khmelnitskaya, “Housing policy in the late Soviet period”
Francis King, “Defining ‘Reform Communism’”
Bálint Mezei, “The ideological birth of Eurocommunism – the Prague spring in Czechoslovakia and the new economic mechanism in Hungary”
Katalin Miklossy, “The concept of competition in state socialism”
Vasil Paraskevov, “The Decline of Socialism in Bulgaria: Mikhail Gorbachev, Todor Zhivkov and the Soviet Perestroika, 1985-1989”
Andrew Pearmain, “The uses and abuses of Gramsci”
György Péteri, “‘Acquisitive Society’ and State Socialism. Lifestyle Issues and Consumerism in the Policies and Discursive Practices of Kádárist Hungary”
András Pintér, “How theory and practice interact in socialism”
David Purdy, “Transforming and Transcending Capitalism: Reflections on the Eurocommunist Experience”
Hugo Radice, “Marxist dissidents in Eastern Europe and their critical analyses of ‘actually existing socialism’ in the 1960s and 1970s”
Dieter Segert, “Communist reformers as a major driving force of changes in late East Central European Socialism - a comparison”
Sebastian Seng, “The Relations between the East German (SED) and Spanish Communist Parties (PCE) from 1971 to 1978”
Graham Taylor, “Reform communism compared with 17th century movements”
Nevena Stoyanova Vlaykova, “The Prague Spring and the season that never came - Bulgaria’s reflection of the invasion in Czechoslovakia in 1968”
Nigel Swain, “Research Institutes in Late Kádár-Era Hungary”
Mike Waite, “Was reform communism possible?”
|