Children of the Russian Revolution: Politics and Experience in 1917
| Dates: | 27 February 2014 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Catriona Kelly |
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part of the seminar series
YOUNG IN DANGEROUS TIMES: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN GLOBAL HISTORY
The role of children in the transformation of society was extensively celebrated in Soviet propaganda, and particularly in the early Soviet period, as part of the mythologisation of the Bolshevik Revolution that has been impressively analysed in Frederick Corney’s book Telling October (2004). However, crucial issues of experience and agency remain unexplored. Using insights from studies such as the psychiatrist Robert Coles’s The Political Life of Children (1986), this paper explores the ‘political’ and everyday lives of children in the years leading up to 1917, and their experiences during that year. The central sources include the autobiographies written by children as a school exercise in the 1900s, and in Russian émigré schools in 1923-1924.
Speaker
Catriona Kelly
Role: Professor of Russian
Organisation: University of Oxford
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