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.

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

Name
Surname
Academic degree / position
Place of work / study
Title of the presentation / article
Abstract of the presentation / article (max. 300 words)
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