

Friday May 19, 11.20 AM-1.20 PM • Room 405A
CHAIR
Oleksandr Fisun
(Kharkiv Karazin U, Ukraine)
PAPERS
Li Bennich-Björkman
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
li.bennich-bjorkman@statsvet.uu.se
Not One But Many Soviet Models:
The Different Faces of Local Party-Intelligentsia Relations In
Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Tamar Qeburia
(Ilia State U, Georgia/U of Göttingen, Germany)
tamari.qeburia@stud.uni-goettingen.de
Labor Recruitment, Apprenticeship Campaigns and the Formation
of the Industrial Working Class in the Soviet Republic of Georgia
Jonathan Raspe
(Princeton U, US)
Nationality in Soviet Heavy Industry:
Comparing the Experiences of Belarusians and Kazakhs
Liao Zhang
(Valparaiso U, US)
The Deserted Brewery: Cross-Border Business, Chinese Diaspora
and the Soviet Citizenry in the Russian Far East, 1920s-1930s
DISCUSSANT
Anne O’Donnell
(NYU, US)