DC 2011 Ethnicity and Film Panel

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

  A good picture of how the Soviet Union treated the 'other republics' 
could have been easily seen when one rode the railroad from Alma-Ata to 
Moscow for you knew not too far north of Uralsk at the borderlands that 
you were back in Russia and on the way south to Andizan you knew when 
you had entered Central Asia.


Lewis B. Sckolnick
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On 12/30/2010 2:13 PM, Slivkin, Yevgeniy A. wrote:
> But on the other hand,  as Stephen Cohen indicates in his “Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives”, even scholars who are proponents of the view that ”USSR fell apart because it was an empire "concede that the Soviet Union was “a peculiar kind of empire” and “differed in several important ways” from traditional ones. “For all the political repression over the years, there was not, for example, a pattern of economic exploitation of the other republics by the Russian center. Instead, the backward ones were considerably modernized under the Soviet system, arguably to the economic detriment of Russia”.
>
>
> Yevgeny Slivkin
> Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
> University of Oklahoma
>
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> From: SEELANGS: Slavic&  East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] on behalf of Hugh McLean [hmclean at BERKELEY.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:32 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] DC 2011 Ethnicity and Film Panel
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> The "affirmative action,  at least in Stalin's time, often consisted of
> accusing leading cultural representatives of minorities, accusing them
> of "bourgeois nationalism," then arresting and executing them.
>> Scholars have called the former Soviet Union an "affirmative action"
>> empire due to the way in which it actively tried to bring in different
>> ethnic groups into their cultural program. This panel will focus on
>> visual representations of ethnicity and race in Russia during and
>> after the Soviet period.
>>
>> We need:
>> Two papers
>> One chair
>> One discussant
>> If interested, please respond off-list to
>>
>> Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Lecturer, Howard University
>> amarilis at bugbytes.com
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