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Experts, scholars and interested individuals are invited to submit a one-page abstract of their unpublished papers (typescript) to the Seminar Secretariat no later than 5 December 2000 at the following address: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