Call for papers:
Conference, November 5 –
6, 2011, Kyiv
Collaboration between
the Soviet Union and Germany in the interwar period and during WWII:
Causes and Consequences
DEAR COLLEAGUES!
We are pleased to announce the international academic conference, from November
5 – 6, 2011,
organised by the Kyiv City Organization of the Ukrainian Charitable Vasyl Stus
Memorial Society, the Public Institute of Historical Memory and the National
University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, on the subject of:
Collaboration between the Soviet Union and Germany in the interwar period
and during WWII: Causes and Consequences
Venue: National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Skovoroda
str, 2.
A list of possible conference themes includes:
• Ideological and political platform of German National Socialism and Soviet
Communism;
• Economic, political and military cooperation between Germany and the USSR in
the interwar period;
• The problems of the Baltic and Black Sea states as well as stateless nations
of Eastern Europe in the context of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact;
• Russian fascism in Europe in the interwar period: ideas, images and
organizational structure;
• Collaborative movements and military units in Germany and the USSR before and
during World War II;
• Search for a separate peace between Germany and the USSR;
• Comparative analysis of political repressions, genocide and war crimes in
Germany and the USSR;
• The national liberation movements of the peoples of Central and Eastern
Europe: reassessments of historians and politicians;
• Collective memories of Nazism and Stalinism;
• The legacies of totalitarian past and the resurrection and establishment of
authoritarian practices and movements on the territory of the former Soviet
Union: Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, etc.
Languages of the conference: Ukrainian, English, Russian, Belarusian, Polish;
Requirements for academic articles:
Articles should be of up to 30 thousand characters long (including
bibliography) in MS Word, font Times New Roman, 14 size with 1.5 interval. The
name, surname, title, academic degree and the full name of the institution
should be in the upper right corner and the name of the article below in the
centre. All articles should begin with an abstract (4-5 lines, italics).
The organizing committee makes the selection of offered articles. The editorial
board also reserves the right to reject material with editorial and stylistic
shortcomings. Publication of the articles and other conference material is
envisaged following the conference.
The registration form and the text of the article should be sent by 10 October
2011 to memkonf@gmail.com and svyetlov@gmail.com.
Members of the Conference Organizing Committee:
Victor Yushchenko - Honorary Chairman of the Organizing Committee, President of
Ukraine (2005-2010)
Sergiy Kvit - Committee Co-Chair, President of UKMA, Professor
Roman Krutsyk - Committee Co-Chair, Chairman of "Memorial"
Vladimir Sergiychuk - Member of the Organizing Committee, Professor
Oleksandr Svyetlov - Member of the Organizing Committee
Sergiy Zhovtiy - Member of the Organizing Committee
Ivan Patrylyak - Member of the Organizing Committee
Maria Bazylyuk - Member of the Organizing Committee
Igor Lisodid - Member of the Organizing Committee
For further information please contact:
Oleksandr Svyetlov svyetlov@gmail.com
and Sergiy Zhovty zhowty@gmail.com
Registration form for
participation in the international conference
«Collaboration between the Soviet Union and Germany in
the interwar period and during WWII: causes and consequences»
5 - 6 November 2011, Kyiv
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Title of the presentation / article
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Abstract of the presentation / article (max. 300 words)
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