Why the Ukrainian Revolution matters for historians of Russian revolutions
Date and time:
Tuesday 30 May, 2017
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
Old Building, LSE
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
Professor Mark von Hagen, a US historian and a leading academic in Slavic Studies, will analyse the period of Ukraine’s short-lived independence and statehood of 1917-21 and why it matters for the historians of the Russian Revolution.
The talk will be followed by a screening of “Shkurnik” (“A Profiteer”), a little-known avant-garde film of the period. It is a comic tale of survival in the kaleidoscopic change of circumstances during the civil war in Ukraine and a biting satire on the Soviet propaganda. The film, produced by VUFKU, the All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Directorate in 1929, was quickly banned by the Soviet authorities and is virtually unknown to western audiences.
The talk is co-organised with the LSESU Ukrainian Society and will be moderated by LSE Teaching Fellow Natalia Kibita.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Mark von Hagen
Mark von Hagen is a professor of history and global studies at the Arizona State University School of International Letters and Cultures, President of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He is the author of many books, including Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930 and War in a European Borderlands: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918. He has also co-edited numerous collections of academic essays, written articles, and essays on topics in historiography, civil-military relations, nationality politics and minority history, and cultural history.
