| Date | Time | Location |
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| Thursday, October 10, 2013 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
In the interwar period a narrow strip of land on the South-Western border of the Soviet Union became the meeting point of conflicting nation- and culture- building ambitions and geopolitical visions of the party activists in Moscow, Kharkiv, Odessa, as well communists from Romania. In the talk Alexandr Voronovici tracec the process of the establishment of the Moldovan ASSR on this territory (which roughly corresponds to the territory of the nowadays unrecognized Transnistrian republic) in 1924. The talk will demonstrate how a certain understanding of the future of the republic and the identity of the local population emerged as predominant in the party politics. The talk will devote special attention to the impact of the Ukrainian party activists. It will follow to demonstrate the role of the “Ukrainian factor” in the nationality policies in the first several years after the establishment of the Moldovan ASSR.
Alexandr Voronovici (Petro Jacyk Visiting Young Scholar) is a PhD Candidate in History at the Central European University, Budapest, and an AFP Returning Scholar and Lecturer at the Department of World History of “Ion Creanga” State Pedagogical University, Chisinau, Moldova. He has received fellowships from the German Historical Institute Moscow, Open Society Foundation, and International Visegrad Fund. At CERES he will be working on the project “Collectivization and Famine in the Borderland Areas: The Ukrainian SSR and the Moldovan ASSR, 1928-1933.” Alexandr Voronovici’s research visit was made possible thanks to the support of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
The talk will be chaired by Professor Lynne Viola.
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