Join the start of a whole year series of international multidisciplinary roundtable discussions on the fall of the USSR.

In December 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, but its material and symbolic legacies still appear powerful enough to obliterate perspectives on the present and the future that has lost its utopian force.

Throughout the year 2021, CBEES arranges a series of roundtable discussions to make sense of this longue dureé of “afterness”. With its various definitions from various vantage points (as transition, transformation, trauma, post-Soviet, post-communist, post-socialist, etc.), these thirty years still have not received proper critical reflection. These issues are relevant for the multidisciplinary area studies as these have been conducted at CBEES almost throughout the whole of the period in question.

The roundtable organizers have created international panels for discussion on questions ranging from economics and law to environment and urban space; from the European right to global art, political and gender activism; the role of contemporary literature and documentary film; theoretical issues of present-day regionalism and critical methodologies after the end of the post-Soviet.


CBEES is inaugurating the series with a film screening and discussion:

25 February 2021 - during the whole day you have an opportunity to see the movie online at your convenience –During this whole time you have an opportunity to see the movie online at your convenience External link..

N.B. Link for the movie will be activated on 25 February in the morning and you can see the film anytime until 26 February in the morning.

26 February 2021; 11.30 - 13.00 - Join the group online film screening in ZOOM

26 February 2021; 14.00 - 15.00 - Discussion about the film in ZOOM

LINK TO ZOOM for 26 February:

Join Zoom Meeting: https://sh-se.zoom.us/j/68533327978 External link.
Meeting ID: 685 3332 7978
Passcode: 200870

CBEES is very grateful for the courtesy of Sergei Loznitsa and Atoms & Void film/television studio to show the film!

Film details:
Title: THE EVENT / SOBYTIE
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Year: 2015
Length: 114 min.
Language: Russian with English subtitles

Storyline:
…August 1991 in Leningrad, the citizens preparing to defend the city against the attempted coup d’etat (the Putch). By the end of the year, the USSR would have been dissolved. A quarter of a century later, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the event in a documentary film made with the use of visual materials produced during August 19-22, 1991, by local film and television reporters.

Organized by the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) in collaboration with Institute of Contemporary History - both are part of Södertörn University.