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ea THURSDAY 31STation andMARCH Afternoon T Registr 2.00 – 4.00PM Welcome The programme fee is £515 per person and the en suite supplement is Programme N IN TODAY’S PERSPECTIVE 4.00PM £75 per room. This includes the full lecture programme, three nights’ RUSSIAN REVOLUTIO 4.15PM vice accommodation, all meals, dinner wines and refreshments At the start of 1917 the Russians were Professor Robert Ser as timetabled. Gratuities are not expected. elccomeome DrinksDri ruled by the Romanov dynasty, which had 6.30PM Wel r Bookings can be made online or by phone. Full payment must be recently celebrated its own tercentenary, 7.30PM Dinne made at the time of booking. Online booking is available on the and the Russian Empire was fighting on the y Hosking ‘Visitors and Conferences’ section of our website. FRIDAY 1ST APRIL Professor Geoffre side of the Western Allies in the Great War Breakfast A full refund [subject to an administration fee] will be offered 8.00 – 9.00AM IAL RUSSIA against the Central Powers. By the end of the in the event of cancellations made up to and including 60 days THE END OF IMPER ward White same year the Romanovs were in captivity 9.15AM Morning Refreshments Mr Ho prior to the start of the event. No refunds will be offered after or in hiding. A Provisional Government had 10.45 – 11.15AM this time. All monies are held by Christ Church. THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT her collapsed. Into power came the communists led 11.15AM Lunch Professor Ian Thatc Please direct enquiries to: by Lenin and Trotsky, who withdrew Russia from OLSHEVIKS Special Interest Event, 12.45 – 1.30PM the war and proclaimed the inception of a great new THE RISE OF THE B onathan Smele The Steward’s Offi ce 2.00PM –1926 Dr J Afternoon Refreshments al Christ Church, phase in human history. Red revolution was said to be 3.30 – 4.00PM imminent across Europe and North America. Communists THE `RUSSIAN’ CIVIL WARS,ensong 1916 in The Cathedr Oxford OX1 1DP 4.00PM Tel: +44 (0)1865 286848 planned to destroy all the old empires and liberate their An opportunity to attend Ev 6.00PM Email: [email protected] colonies. They intended to make Russia into a model of what r Dinne www.chch.ox.ac.uk/conferences/special-interest-event the working people could achieve for themselves. The rest of 7.30PM the world would surely soon join in the movement. SATURDAY 2ND APRIL Breakfast Family photo of the Romanovs, 1913 / © SZ Photo / Bridgeman Images 8.00 – 9.00AM EMPIRE Professor Steve Smith BREAK-UP OF Russian Revolution, October 1917. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov - 1870-1924) Russian revolutionary. Undated Communist poster. / Universal History Archive/UIG / Bridgeman Images Soviet Postcard With Portrait of Iosif Stalin, 1930, Brodsky, Russian Civil war orphan; 9.15AM Above right: Bolshevik revolutionaries, October Revolution, 1917 (b/w photo), Russian Photographer (20th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images Isaak Israilevich (1883-1939) / Private Collection / Vilna White, Russia, Russia / Morning Refreshments Photo © Tobie Mathew Collection / Bridgeman Images Universal History Archive/UIG / Bridgeman Images 10.45 – 11.15AM TIONAL REVOLUTION Professor Martyn Rady INTERNA 11.15AM It proved much more difficult than they central Europe, Moscow’s communist leadership ruthlessness was required for them impact was traceable to the Lunch 12.45 – 1.30PM ities imagined. Civil wars and foreign military continued to believe that the wheels of history to spread revolutions abroad. extraordinary events of the onal activ 2.00PM Opti Refreshments interventions put the entire former Russian Empire would eventually turn in their favour. They installed After Lenin, Stalin stabilised Russian Revolution of 1917. Afternoon 3.00 – 4.00PM VOLUTION on the rack. The communists survived by ditching a one-party system in Russia. They monopolised the USSR by policies that were Renowned authors CULTURAL RE many of their early utopian ideals. They built up the media, introduced censorship and quarantined ever more extreme, but the with expertise across 4.00PM Professor Christopher Read eption the party and a disciplined Red Army. Exploiting their citizens from alien influences. Marxism, or Soviet order was strong the entire range of ClosClos in ing Drinks Rec the advantages of propaganda, population and Marxism-Leninism as it was known after Lenin’s enough to endure as the Russia’s historical 7.00PM Gala Banquet demography, they defeated their enemies. They death in 1924, was placed on a pedestal of antidote to American past will lever open the 7.30PM also founded the Communist International, esteem. The communists were avid industrialisers capitalism around the world. rich complexity of this SUNDAY 3RD APRIL whose agents travelled the globe to help with the even when they faced problems in recovering from Communism in Moscow extraordinary era, an era 8.00 - 9.00AM Breakfast The college reserves the right to make establishment of communist parties. the civil wars of 1918-1920. They saw themselves underwent a final collapse that moulded events and 9.30AM LECTURE TBA alterations and substitutions to the This gruelling process of change and survival as the promoters of a new modernity, a higher in 1991. It had undergone trends throughout the world 10.45 - 11.15AM Morning Refreshments programme. It will not be liable for any led to the creation of the USSR. Even though the form of society than the capitalism of the West many internal changes. Its global in the twentieth century. non-performance under this contract arising 11.15AM LENIN, TROTSKY, STALIN Professor Robert Service sparks of Red revolution were snuffed out in could match. And they were ready to use whatever variations were countless. And its out of circumstances beyond its control. 12.45PM Lunch Bolshevik poster depicting Lenin sweeping away emperors, clergy and capitalists, 1917 (colour litho), Russian School, (20th century) / Private Collection / Peter Newark Historical Pictures / Bridgeman Images 2.00PM Depart Christ Church, established by Henry VIII in 1546, ground, fi rst, second and third is Emeritus is Director and is a Senior Research is a unique foundation of college and cathedral. fl oors (low-fl oor rooms are Professor of Russian History at Oxford Professor of Russian and Soviet History Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and Chri Church It is home to some 650 undergraduate and available on request). All rooms University and Senior Fellow of the at the School of Slavonic and East author of the prize-winning Russia in OXFORD postgraduate students and over a hundred have tea and coffee-making Hoover Institution, Stanford University. European Studies, University College Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 Senior Members. Christ Church occupies a facilities, complimentary Wi-Fi He has written several works on London. She is the author of Moscow to 1928 (Oxford University Press, 2017). 150-acre site in the heart of the city, including and a refrigerator. A free laundry Russia’s history from the late nineteenth Workers and the 1917 Revolution (2014), teaches Russian The Meadow, a tranquil area of pasture, room is also provided. century to the present day. His Trotsky Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 and East European History at Ulster preserved for centuries and bounded by the (2019) won the Duff Cooper prize. (1989), and Club Red: Vacation Travel Meals are prepared under the University. He is author of a biography Rivers Isis and Cherwell. His account of Russian affairs since and the Soviet Dream (2013). direction of the college’s Executive of Trotsky (2003) and has edited, 2012, Kremlin Winter, is scheduled for is Masaryk amongst other books, Reinterpreting Lectures take place in the Sir Michael Head Chef and are served in the publication in October 2019. Dummett Lecture Theatre, located on the magnifi cent Tudor Dining Hall. Dietary Professor of Central European History Revolutionary Russia (2006) and ground-fl oor in Blue Boar Quad. The Lecture requirements can be catered for is Emeritus at University College London’s School Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Theatre has fi xed seating with foldaway provided they are requested at the time Professor of Russian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Prospects (2005). writing tables and is fi tted with a sound- of booking. 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