Sheila Fitzpatrick, below, has an excellent book full of diary entries from the fSU in the 30's. "Everyday Stalinism, " published by Oxford Univ. Press. Lutz Niethammer,btw, also below, has a book from Verso, "Post-Histoire." Michael Pugliese
Historicizing Everyday Life under Communism: the USSR and the GDR
June 8-10, 2000 Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Germany Inviting institutions: University of Chicago, Prof. Sheila Fitzpatrick Zentrum für die Vergleichende Geschichte Europas, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (ZVGE) Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Germany (ZZF) Thursday, June 8, 2000 15:00 -15:15 h Opening lecture Konrad H. Jarausch (ZZF): Welcome
15:15 -18:00 h Conference opening Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Chicago, USA): Introduction Lutz Niethammer (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Germany): Historicization
and Everyday Life Under Communism Moderator: Jürgen Kocka (ZVGE)
18:00 h Reception
Friday, June 9, 2000 09:00 -11:00 h Panel 1: Work: Shop Floors, Workers and Class Values Moderator: Thomas Lindenberger (ZZF) Hanna Haack(Rostock, Germany)/Heinz- Gerd Hofschen(Bremen, Germany): Decline and Re-establishment of workers´ milieus in the 1950s Sandrine Kott (Université de Poitiers, France): The gestures and the spirit of giving in the firms of the GDR Jeffrey Rossman(University of Virginia, USA): "Why do they care so little about the well-being of the worker?" Shop-Floor Morale on the Eve of the First Five-Year Plan Lewis Siegelbaum(Michigan State University, USA): Commentary
11:00 h -11:15 h Break
11:15 -13:00 h Panel 2: State-Citizens Relationship: Repression and Resistance, Education and Participation Moderator: Julie Hessler (University of Oregon, USA) Golfo Alexopoulos(University of South Florida, USA): The Subversive Nature of Compliance: A Case from Stalin's Russia Paul Hagenloh (ZZF/University of Alabama, USA): Popular Participation in Soviet Policing in the 1930s Thomas Lindenberger (ZZF): Towards Surveillance and Education: Shifting Paradigms in Policing GDR Society Lewis Siegelbaum(Michigan State University, USA): The Making of a Stalinist Citizenry: Some Thoughts on Resistance and Subjectivity Konrad H. Jarausch (ZZF): Commentary
13:15 -15:00 h Lunch
15:00 -17.00 h Panel 3: Welfare: State Socialist Paternalism and Policies of Integration Moderator: Philipp Ther (ZVGE) Christoph Boyer (Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung, Dresden, Germany): Social and consumer policy in the GDR in sixties Chris Burton (University of Chicago, USA): The Patient as Participant in the Late Stalinist Health System Michael Schwartz (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München, Außenstelle Berlin, Germany): Social integration through equitable distribution? The "resettler" problem and social conflict in post-war GDR-society (1945-1953) Julie Hessler(University of Oregon, USA): Commentary
17:00 -17:15 h Break
17:15 -19.15 h Panel 4: Scarcity, Consumer Culture and Informal Networks/blat Moderator: Volker Gransow(Institut für politische Wissenschaft, FU Berlin, Germany) Julie Hessler (University of Oregon, USA): Postwar Normalization and Its Limits: The Case of Trade Stephen Lovell(University of Oxford, UK): The Patient as Participant in the Late Stalinist Health System Judd Stitziel (Johns Hopkins University, USA): Hunting, Sewing, Networking, Complaining: The Drudgery of Clothing and Dreams of Haute Couture in the GDR in the 1950s Arnd Bauerkämper (ZZF): Commentary
Saturday, June 10, 2000 09:00 -11:00 h Panel 5: Making Communist Subjects: Ideological practice and dissent Moderator: Paul Hagenloh(ZZF/University of Alabama, USA) Jochen Hellbeck (Universitaet Giessen, Germany): Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin Era Autobiographical Texts Anna Krylova (Johns Hopkins University, USA): The "Generation Not From This Universe": The "New Soviet Person" in Life and Fiction Dorothee Wierling (Berlin, Germany): Heimat-Liebe. A socialist way of belonging Greg Eghigian (Penn State University, USA/ZVGE): Commentary
11:00 h -11:15 h Break
11:15 -13:00 h Panel 6: Socialist Culture, Popular Culture: Contest and Co-existence Moderator: Christoph Conrad(ZVGE) Catriona Kelly(University of Oxford, UK): 'A Laboratory for Proletarian Writers': The Stengazeta (Wall Newspaper) in the Early Soviet Period Sylvia Kloetzer (ZZF): Attacking "Socialist Hollywood": The (Public) Sphere of Satire. East German Political Cabaret Alf Lüdtke (Universität Erfurt, Germany): The Arena of Work: Self Regulation or Control from Above? Contested Shop Floors in East Germany in filmic representation Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Chicago, USA): Commentary
13:15 -14:45 h Lunch
14:45 -16.30 h Final roundtable Moderator: Manfred Hildermeier (University of Göttingen/ZVGE) Participants: John Connelly (University of California -Berkeley, USA): opening statement Sheila Fitzpatrick(University of Chicago, USA) Thomas Lindenberger (ZZF)
-- Michael Pugliese
"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening to
each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding that
we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and shouted
at each other, as if we were in a madhouse." -Tolstoy