CHAIR
Ron Suny
(U of Michigan, US)
PAPERS
Marat R Akopian
(Shepherd U, US)
Lenin and Self-Determination of Armenia, Ukraine, and Finland in 1917-18:
From Marxist Theory to Bolshevik Practice
Nelli Manucharyan
(Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenia)
The Unification of Old and New Homelands in Soviet Armenia:
The Example of Toponym Analysis
Diego Benning Wang
(Princeton U, US)
Lightning-Sword and Blazing Steed under the Hammer and Sickle:
The Rebirth of David of Sassoon in Soviet Armenia
Alex Jackson
(Harvard U, US)
The East comes South:
The Construction of a Soviet Nation in the American Black Belt
Oksana Klymenko
(U Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine/Stanford U, US)
“History of DniproHES”: Construction of a New Soviet Symbol (1930s)
DISCUSSANT
Victor Apryshchenko
(Bard College, US)