“Summer” Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Russia
December
16-17
2021
This conference is invitation only. All times below are listed in Central Time.
Agenda
Thursday, December 16, 2021
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Opening Remarks
9:15 am - 10:00 am
McDonalds on Pushkin Square: From Joint Venture to Foreign Subsidiary and from Communism to Capitalism, 1990-1999
Kristy Ironside, McGill University
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Russian Economic Growth During The Eighteenth Century
Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford
Elena Korchmina, University of Southern Denmark
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Control through Empowerment: Preliminary Evidence from the Inception of Central Asian Republics
Paul Castañeda Dower, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Andrei Markevich, New Economic School
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
The Political Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932-33
Lunch will be served during the presentation
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Living as Before: Keeping up with the Joneses in Times of Political Terror
Tomila Lankina, London School of Economics
Alexander Libman, Free University of Berlin
Katerina Tertytchnaya, University College London
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
Political Economy of Rural Self-governance: the Case of the Village Communities in the Russian Empire after the Emancipation
Dmitry Ismagilov, King’s College London
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Break
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Fending Off Shield and Sword: How Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators
Harunobu Saijo, Duke University
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Prisons and Homophobia
Maxim Ananyev, University of Melbourne
Michael Poyker, University of Nottingham
6:30 pm
Dinner
Topolobampo – 445 North Clark Street
Friday, December 17, 2021
8:45 am - 9:15 am
Continental Breakfast
9:15 am - 10:00 am
Coercion after Serfdom? Market Power and Factor Mobility in Rural Russia, 1861 – 1914
Dmitrii Kofanov, University of Barcelona
Viktor Malein, University of Southern Denmark
Steven Nafziger, Williams College
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Human Capital and Industrialization: German Settlers in Late Imperial Russia
Viktor Malein, University of Southern Denmark
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Wartime Recruitment: From Oppression to Insurrection
Roya Talibova, University of Michigan
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Does Past Labor Coercion Cause Conflict? Evidence from the Late Russian Empire
Dmitrii Kofanov, University of Barcelona
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
Fining the Judges, or the Administrative Capacity of the Post-Petrine State in Russia: The Case of the Confiscation Chancellery, 1730s
Igor Fedyukin, Higher School of Economics
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Break
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Burghers into Peasants: Political Economy of City Status in Congress Poland
Paweł Charasz, Duke University
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion: Next Steps
6:30 pm