2026 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Eurasia

Schedule

8:45–9:00 Opening remarks
9:00–10:00 Kristy Ironside, “Borshch versus Burgers”
10:00–11:00 Andrei Markevich and Timur Natkhov, “Popular Support in Autocracies: Why Soviet Industrial Workers Turned Away from Communists”
11:00–11:30 Coffee
11:30–12:30 Elena Korchmina and Marvin Suesse, “Ethnicity, Discrimination and Entry into Industry: Evidence from the Russian Empire”
12:30–2:00 Lunchtime keynote: Ekaterina Pravilova, “Money and the Political Economy of Imperial Rule”
2:00–3:00 Natalya Naumenko, “Crime and Privatization: Effect of Privatization on Economic Development in post-Soviet Russia”
3:00–3:30 Coffee
3:30–4:30 Jonathan Raspe, “Regional Economics and the Origins of the Soviet Union’s Disintegration, 1960–1990”
4:30–5:30 Egg-timer panel: Dominic Cruz Bustillos, Véronique Mickisch, Yaroslav Prokhorskoy, Nurlan Utesov
7:00–10:00 Conference dinner

9:00–10:00 Vitalia Eliseeva, “Failing to Forge the New Soviet Woman: Long-term Effect of WW2-induced Sex Ratios on Family Formation”
10:00–11:00 Otto Kienitz and Igor Kolesnikov
11:00–11:30 Coffee
11:30–12:30 Elena Korchmina, “How Russian Women Chose Patriarchy”
12:30–2:00 Lunchtime keynote: Richard Hornbeck, “After Shocks”
2:00–3:00 Victor Malein and Andrei Markevich, “Removing Ethnic Barriers: The 1917 Russian Revolution as the Catalyst for Scientific Talent”
3:00–3:30 Coffee
3:30–4:30 Stephen Wheatcroft, “On Reassessing the Role of Famines, Food Problems and Other Factors in Producing Long-term Decline in Soviet Mortality”
4:30–5:30 Egg-timer panel: Igor Kolesnikov, Donald Morard, Mariya Sakharova

Program Committee: Vitalia Eliseeva, Scott Gehlbach, Kristy Ironside