Programme

9.30am: Arrival

10am: Welcome

10.15am: Dan Orlovsky, ‘Chris Read and the Russian Revolution’

10.35am: Geoff Roberts, ‘Chris Read as Biographer’

11.15am: Break (coffee/tea)

11.30am: Matthew Rendle, ‘Inventing the Russian Revolution: Conceptualising

Revolution in the print culture of 1917’

11.50am: Ian Thatcher, ‘Trotsky and the Tenth Party Congress’

12.45pm: Lunch

2pm: James Ryan, ‘“Moscow doesn’t believe in tears”: Violence and Madness in

Vladimir Zazubrin’s Chip (1923)’

2.20pm: David Saunders, ‘Why Does Putin Object to Ukraine?’

3.15pm: Coffee/Tea and Speeches