AAASS2010 Round Table Screening and Discussion of Marina Goldovskaya latest documentary: Two Russias - the Besieger and the Besieged

[Jane Knox-Voina]

Now looking for participants: chair, round table participants, etc. for 
a AAASS 2010 round table in LA in order 1) to screen and 2) discuss 
Marina Goldovskaya's latest 40 minute documentary on the two faces of 
Russia: the Besieger and the Besieged --"Three Songs about Motherland." 
This 40-minute film is entitled I am also looking for an appropriate 
title for the round table.this The one mentioned is a work title only. 
If interested, please respond ASAP, as we all know the deadline is 
tomorrow. Be sure that you are resgistered on line with AAASS, include 
your affiliation and academic status to help me form th panel. Thanks,
Jane

Jane Knox-Voina, Professor
Russian
Eurasian and East European Studies
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine 04011
207-779-4763 (cell)

The following is a brief description:

Two Russias - the Besieger and the Besieged. ""Three Songs About 
Motherland" depicts a dramatic collision between the past, the present, 
and the future in contemporary Russia by focusing on three cities in 
this vast land. In the far eastern City of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a 
still-living symbol of Soviet industrialization in the 1930s, older 
Russian citizens speak about their youth, when they felt part of 
something bigger than themselves: building “a city of communist dreams” 
in the middle of nowhere. Some cling to the promise of those glory days 
while others, express regret and disappointment at its ultimate failure.
Then, the cosmopolitan city of Moscow bids farewell to Anna 
Politkovskaya, the fearless journalist and human rights activist who was 
assassinated for her professional activity amid the chaotic power 
struggles of the post-Soviet nation, fighting to her death for a young 
Russian democracy.
Finally, residents of Khanty-Mansijsk, one of the main centers of 
Siberia’s budding oil industry, speak about their beloved fairy 
tale-like town, where the communist dream has been swept away by new 
aspirations for a prosperous future. And what are they, today's 
aspirations? What is behind the fairy tale? Will the new "capitalist 
dream" come true, or will it turn out to be another illusion, another 
myth? In the words of the Great Russian poet Tyutchev, "We are not 
destined to foretell". During the course of the film, three songs 
performed by contemporary singer Elena Kamburova serve as a leitmotif 
which unites these three separate stories into one cohesive whole: a 
frank and vibrant picture of Russia today.


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