CHAIR
Michele Commercio
(U of Vermont, US)
PAPERS
Sophia Horowitz
(Harvard U, US)
The Rise, Repression, and Resistance of Soviet “Academic Entrepreneurs”:
The Development of Academic Turkology in the USSR, 1917-1953
Jessica Lovett
(U of Nottingham, UK)
jessica.lovett@nottingham.ac.uk
“The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics
in a Changing Soviet Union (1964-1982)
Brent Hierman
(Virginia Military Institute, US)
Death and Taxes: Assessing the Link between the Death of Dictators
and Economic Reforms in Eurasia
Courtney Kayser
(George Mason U, US)
Managing a Pandemic: Authoritarian Responses to COVID-19
*co-authored with Farah Abou Harb (George Mason U, US)
DISCUSSANT
Lawrence Markowitz
(Rowan U, US)