In this talk, Professor Zhuravskaya will discuss her forthcoming paper “Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations”, co-authored with Antonela Miho and Alexandra Jarotschkin. In this paper the scholars study horizontal between-group cultural transmission using a unique historical setting, which combines exogenous group exposure with no control over how and whether the representatives of different groups interact. Stalin’s…
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Book Talk. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan by Sarah Cameron
Please join us for a talk with Sarah Cameron (University of Maryland). The Hungry Steppe (Cornell University Press, 2018) examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine—a quarter of Kazakhstan’s population—and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe. Yet its story has remained mostly hidden…
On Monday, March 5th please join us for “Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941″, a book talk by Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University). In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and…
Please join us for a talk with Stephen Kotkin about his new book, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941(Penguin Press, 2017). Registration is required. Please click here to register. Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took,…