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Author

Name Bikbov, Alexander
Research field Philology
Career stage professor
Home university/institution Moscow State University
Department/Research unit at home university/institution -
Chair/Working group at home institution -

International activity

Country Germany
Location Bochum
University Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Fund Research School VIP
Type of activity research stay
Period starts 01-01-2018
ends 31-12-2020
Keywords -
Report State-Led Modernization – a Tool to Analyze and Explain Wider Developments Workshop 14.-16.11.2018, Ruhr-University Bochum

Day 1:
Key Note I: Russian Modernization – Choices, Structures and Agencies: Sari Autio-Sarasmo, Aleksanteri-Instutite Helsinki/University of Tampere

Day 2:

Impulse Lecture by Sari Autio-Sarasmo
Part I Discussion of pre-circled articles on theories regarding modernization
Part II Discussion of pre-circled articles on theories regarding modernization
Part III Matthias Völkel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Part IV Analyzing science: Theories of modernization vs. Sociology of scientific knowledge? Paper Presentations:
Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek, Central European University, Budapest: Self-Service and Self-Management? Department Stores and the Modernization of Retail in Socialist Yugoslavia in the 1960s
Veera Laine, University of Helsinki: Pride or prejudice? Meanings and contexts of 'nationalism' in Russia 2008-2018
Key Note II:Post-Stalin Soviet State as a model of illiberal governmentality
Prof. Alexander Bikbov, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Maurice Halbwachs Research Center (Paris)
18:30 Conference Dinner

Day 3:

Susan Ikonen, University of Helsinki: Isn't empirical research enough? Some problems with finding suitable theories to help study Soviet cultural life on a micro level between 1946 and 1991
Iwar Matern, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Modernization through Indoctrination? The Russian-Orthodox Church as Agent of Patriotic Education and State-led Nationalism in the Imperial Army
Saskia Geisler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Class struggles, forbidden spaces and Eigen-Sinn. Can theories of modernization help to characterize everyday interactions across the “Iron Curtain”?
Final Discussion

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