NewsNet News of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies March 2017 v. 57, n. 2 Table of Contents Misbehaving Women and the Russian Revolutions of 1917 2 Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Harvard University “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide: An Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny 9 Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University Contingent Faculty and Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies: A Report by ASEEES Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession 12 Sharon A Kowalsky, Texas A&M University-Commerce Celebrating Crime and Punishment at 150 15 Kate Holland, University of Toronto and Katherine Bowers, University of British Columbia ASEEES Prizes Calls for Submissions 17 Personages 20 Publications 21 Institutional Member News 25 Affiliate News 29 In Memoriam 31 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 412-648-9911 |
[email protected] | www.aseees.org 203C Bellefield Hall | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 | USA Misbehaving Women and the Russian Revolutions of 19171 Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Harvard University Nineteen-seventeen is the most researched in international women’s suffrage conferences and year in 20th century Russian history. Yet, with a few Russian female students enrolled in western European exceptions, accounts of the revolutionary year remain universities, often outnumbering local women students. largely baritone and bass. Despite the advances made Women were prominent in the revolutionary movement by historians of women overall, the question of the role and their agency was critical in extending the vote of women and gender in the key Russian historic events and the right to run for office to women.