History Research Seminar: The Unbearable Lightness of Liberalism: The Soviet State as a ‘Liberal Subject’ in World Trade
| Dates: | 26 February 2025 |
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| Times: | 14:30 - 16:00 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Alessandro Iandolo |
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Join us for the latest in the history external speaker research seminar series. This paper examines the Soviet state’s contribution to the liberalization of international trade from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s. Looking at the USSR’s participation in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the paper complicates the view of the Soviet state as a ‘liberal subject’, an actor that always sought its self-interest, and calls for historians of the Soviet state to engage with the political, ideational and emotional dimensions of economic exchanges to investigate the USSR’s place in the global economy.
Speaker
Alessandro Iandolo
Role: Lecturer in Soviet/Post-Soviet History
Organisation: UCL
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Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
