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Russia in the Last Century

Russian Politico-Social Events in the Last Century
Center for Documents & Diplomatic History
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Teheran, 27-28 February 2001

Call for Papers

The Center for Documents and Diplomatic History of the Iranian Foreign Ministry intends to convene an international seminar on "The Russian Politico-Social Developments during the last Century" on 27-28 Feb. 2001.

The following subjects are to be examined:

The Impact of Mass Media on Russian Politico-Social Developments (Telegraph, Newspaper, Telephone, Radio, TV, Cinema, Internet...)
The Efficiency of the Political-Administrative Structure: Tsarist Era, Communist Era
Nationalism and the Developments in International Relations: A Case Study of Russia
Russian Nationalism and the Question of the Peoples during the Imperial and Socialist Eras
The Shift in the Social Interpretation of Basic Concepts of Welfare, Justice, Independence, Security...
Split and Collapse in the Eastern Block (the Chinese Revolution, Balkan Crisis, Poland's Developments...)
The Russian Regional Foreign Policy: the Tsarist Kremlin and the Red Kremlin
Iran's Place in Russian Foreign Policy during the last Century

Experts, scholars and interested individuals are invited to submit a one-page abstract of their unpublished papers (typescript) to the Seminar Secretariat no later than 5 December 2000 at the following address:

Center for Documents and Diplomatic History
P.O. Box 19395-1793
Tehran
Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: +9821 2802649
E-mail: IPIS@mfa.gov.ir

Posted: 25 September 2000