Istanbul Institute of
Russian and Sovietic Studies
The First Workshop for Russian Studies between Boğaziçi University and Lomonosov Moscow State University will be held in Bosphorus University, in Istanbul between 10 to 13th of October 2019 by the hosting of ADK (Atatürkçü Düşünce Kulübü – The Student’s “Atatürk Thought Club“) and by the collaboration of Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu – TTK).
The project aims to develop academic correspondences, sharing of information and collaboration for mutual production of knowledge between Russian and Turkish scholars in social sciences, particularly in History. This workshop is planned to focuse on topics bringing into discussion the issues that are currently under debate in Russia and -especially – controversial in the mainstream Western left-wing reading of Russian and Soviet history.
PROGRAM
10 October 2019 Thursday
10:30 – Opening Remarks
Prof Refik Turan (Turkish Historical Society – TTK, President); Şafak Erdem (BU-ADK, President); Prof Faruk Birtek (BU-Sociology); Prof Olga Kazmina (LMSU, Ethnology).
– Coffee Break
11:30 – Moderator: Assoc Prof Sevtap Demirci (Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute)
– Leonid Iosifovich Borodkin
(Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor.)
“Industrialization and modernization processes in pre-revolutionary Russia: Controversial assessments of Western historians”.
– Prof İlber Ortaylı
“Alexander the Third versus Abdulhamid the Second”
– Ekaterina Vladimirovna Romanova
(Associate Professor of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Europe and America, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University)
“Russia’s approaches to the solution of the Eastern question in the late 19th – early 20th century”
13:30 – Break
15:00 – Moderator: Prof Olga Kazmina (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Ethnology)
– Prof Asım Karaömerlioğlu
(Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute)
“Parvus and the historiography of the Russian Revolution”
– Prof Kirill Nazarenko
(St Petersburg University, Faculty of History)
“Kronstadt Rebellion and the background: Admiral Shchastny Case and The defense of Petrograd during the Civil War”
– Assistant Prof Samuel Hirst
(Bilkent University, Center for Russian Studies)
“A Transnational Approach to Soviet-Turkish Technology Transfers in the 1930s”
11 October 2019 Friday
11:00 – Moderator: Prof Asım Karaömerlioğlu (Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute)
– Olga Yevgenievna Kazmina
(Deputy Dean for International Cooperation of the Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Professor of the Department of Ethnology.)
“Issues of cultural identities in the censuses of population of Russia and the USSR”.
– Ismail Alievich Agakishiev
(Associate Professor of the Department of the History of the NIS Countries, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University.)
“Specifics of the formation of the Azerbaijani ethnic group in Russia”.
– Marina Nikolayevna Bakhmatova
(Associate Professor of the Department of Ethnology, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
“Debates over the ways of the development of Islam in the 20th century: Russia’s and Turkey’s Muslims at the 1926 Meccan Congress.”
13:30 – Break
14:30 – Moderator: Prof Faruk Birtek
– Aleksandr Ivanovich Ostapenko
(Deputy Chair of the Department of the History of the 20th – 20st Century Russia, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Associate Professor.)
“Soviet Russia on the way to the conclusion of the 1921 Soviet-Turkish Treaty”.
– Dr Mehmet Perinçek
(Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies)
“Turkish-Soviet Military Cooperation in the South Caucasus (1919-1922)”
15:30 – Coffee Break
16:00 – Moderator: Prof Faruk Birtek
– Dr Umut C. Karadoğan
(Sinop Üniversitesi)
“Military and financial Aid of Soviet Russia from the Black Sea to National Struggle”
– Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vershinin
(Senior Researcher of the Department of the History of the 20th – 20st Century Russia, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University.)
“Turkey and the Soviet policy of the collective security, 1930 – 1939”.
– Assistant Prof Onur İşçi
(Bilkent University, Center for Russian Studies)
“After Montreux: The Persistence of Soviet-Turkish Economic Cooperation”
– Closing Remarks:
Assistant Prof Onur İşçi