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October 10-13, 2019: Boğaziçi University — Lomonosov Moscow State University First International Workshop for Russian Studies


Istanbul Institute of
Russian and Sovietic Studies


From the presentation of Prof Kirill Nazarenko

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.

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Understanding the prodigy of Sergei Eisenstein – Ali Polat, Engin Kurtay

Istanbul Institute of
Russian and Sovietic Studies

Tamiji Naito, Boris Pasternak, Eisenstein, Olga Tretyakova, Lilya Brik, Mayakovsky…


Note: This study is being elaborated by revisions and appendixes. The Log of revisions is located at then end of the article.

Known for his leftist identity, Ken Livingston’s victory in London municipal elections in 2000 created excitement in the left circles in the UK as well as around the world. One detail that escaped from the eyes was that Ken Livingston participated the municipal elections as an independent candidate from the party, even though he was a member of the Labor Party. Simple tactical explanations were invented to explain this strangeness. We can, however, try to better understand this tactical choice through Eisenstein’s story we present below, within the framework of deep decomposition on the left, whose roots go back to 1908 and 1916.

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