INSTITUTE OF GENERAL HISTORY, RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

THE CUMMINGS CENTER FOR RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES,
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION, MOSCOW

 

 

SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY, 1917-1991
A RETROSPECTIVE

 

 

MOSCOW
4-7 FEBRUARY 1992

Conference Hall, Academy of Sciences

  • TUESDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 1992

    17:30

    Reception
    Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences, 22nd Floor

  • WEDNESDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 1992 10:00
    Greetings

    Arieh Levin, His Excellency the Israeli Ambassador to Russia
    Ivan D. Kovalchenko, Academic Secretary, Department of History, Russian Academy of Sciences
    Eduard A. Shevardnadze, Chairman, Foreign Policy Association
    Alexander O. Chubarian, Director, Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences
    Gabriel Gorodetsky, Director, Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University

    Opening Lecture
    Alexander O. Chubarian
    Politics and Ethics in Soviet Foreign Policy

    11:30-12:00
    Coffee Break

    12:00-13:45
    The Genesis of Soviet Foreign Policy
    First Session

    Alexander O. Chubarian
    Chairman

    Leonid N. Nezhinskii
    Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences
    East-West Confrontation in the Wake of the October Revolution

    Carole Fink
    Department of History, Ohio State University
    The NEP in Foreign Policy: The Genoa and Rapallo Conferences

    Gabriel Gorodetsky
    The Formulation of Soviet Foreign Policy - The First Decade

    Discussion
    13:45-14:45
    Lunch

    14:45-16:30
    The Genesis of Soviet Foreign Policy
    Second Session

    Elgiz A. Pozdniakov
    Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
    Chairman

    Richard Debo
    Department of History, Simon Fraser University
    Chicherin as Foreign Commissar

    Jonathan Haslam
    King's College, Cambridge University
    Maxim Litvinov and the Alternative Tradition in Soviet Foreign Policy

    Francis Conte
    University of Paris, Sorbonne
    Ukrainian Diplomacy in the 1920s

    Discussion
    16:30-17:00
    Coffee Break

    17:00-18:30
    On the Eve of World War II

    Jukka Nevakivi
    Institute of Political History, Helsinki University
    Chairman and Commentator

    Ted Uldricks
    Department of History, University of North Carolina, Asheville
    Reassessing Soviet Security Policy in the 1930s

    Ingeborg Fleischhauer
    Planck Institute, Bonn
    The Soviet-German "Special Relationship": From Brest-Litovsk to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact

    Lev A. Bezymenskii
    Novoe vremia
    Accomplishments and Drawbacks of Soviet Historiography: The Secret Protocols and the Soviet-German Agreements of 1939

    Discussion

  • THURSDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 1992
    10:00-11:30
    From the Grand Alliance to the Cold War

    Jonathan Haslam
    Chairman

    Boris I. Marushkin
    Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences Commentator

    Alexei M. Filitov
    Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences
    The USSR in the Anti-Hitler Coalition: Cooperation and Confrontation

    Mikhail M. Narinskii
    Deputy Director, Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences
    Soviet Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Cold War

    Aron Shai
    Department of History, Tel Aviv University
    The Cold War in Asia Reconsidered

    Discussion
    11:30-11:50
    Coffee Break

    11:50-13:45
    The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

    Timothy Garton Ash
    St. Antony's College, Oxford
    Chairman and Commentator

    Czeslaw Madajczyk
    Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Commentator

    Zdenek Sladek
    Institute of Central and East European History, Prague
    Czechoslovak-Soviet Relations, 1918-1968

    Anita Prazmowska
    Department of History, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London University
    Poland's Role in the Formulation of British Policy towards the Soviet Union, 1939-1943

    Igor I. Orlik
    Institute of International Economic and Political Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
    Eastern Europe in Soviet-American Relations after World War II

    Vladimir K. Volkov
    Director, Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
    The Soviet Union and the Countries of Central and Southeast Europe in the Wake of World War II

    Discussion
    13:45-14:45
    Lunch

    14:45-16:15
    Soviet Involvement in the Middle East

    Oleg M. Derkovskii
    Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Chairman and Commentator

    Bruce Kuniholm
    Department of Public Policy Studies, Duke University
    The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East

    Vitaly V. Naumkin
    Deputy Director, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
    The Premises of Soviet Politics in the Middle East

    Yaacov Ro'i
    Cummings Center, Tel Aviv University
    The Problematics of Soviet-Israeli Relations

    Discussion
    16:15-16:30
    Coffee Break

    16:30-18:00
    Archival Sources for the Study of Soviet Foreign Policy

    Igor A. Lebedev
    Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Chairman

    Yephim I. Pivovar
    Russian Humanitarian University
    Commentator

    Sergei A. Kondrachev
    Russian Federal Security Agency
    New Perspectives on the KGB Archives and the Research of Soviet Foreign Policy

    Vladimir V. Sokolov
    Historical Diplomacy Department, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    The Archives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - New Opportunities

    Discussion

  • FRIDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 1992
    10:00-13:45
    New Perspectives for Russian Foreign Policy

    Gabriel Gorodetsky
    Chairman

    Iurii A. Borko
    Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences
    Commentator

    B.I. Marushkin
    The Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences,
    Commentator

    Victor B. Kuvaldin
    The Gorbachev Fund
    Fundamental Problems and Trends in Contemporary Russian Foreign Policy

    Alexander Dallin
    Department of History, Stanford University
    Domestic Sources of Soviet Foreign Policy: Problems of Analysis and Research Agenda

    Konstantin V. Pleshakov
    Institute of USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences
    In Search of New Orientations in Foreign Policy

    11:30-12:00
    Coffee Break
    Hélène Carrere d'Encausse
    Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
    The Republics in Soviet Foreign and Domestic Policy

    Dzhangir G. Nadzhafov
    Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences
    The Global Context of Soviet Thinking on Foreign Policy

    Discussion
    13:45-14:45
    Lunch
    15:00-17:30
    Roundtable discussion with members of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, Russian Supreme Soviet, and of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  • SATURDAY, 8 FEBRUARY 1992

    10:00-12:00 Excursion to Kremlin

SPONSORS:
Bank Hapoalim
The Cummings Family
Montreal Friends of Tel Aviv University

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