Zachary Wilmot, Revolution and its Discontents: Alternative and Counter-Revolutions in Revolutionary Cultures

Syeda Masood, The Case for a DuBoisian Ethic in Postcolonial Theory using the Histories of The Bookseller of Kabul/Once Upon a Time There was a Bookseller in Kabul

Harry C. Merritt, Liberating Latvia in the Ranks of an Occupying Army: The Red Army’s Latvian Rifle Corps Crosses the Border

Ricarda Hammer, Decolonizing the Civil Sphere: History, Colonial Difference and the Promise for Inclusion

Juho Korhonen, Empire and National Self-Determination Before and After 1917

Discussant : Holly Case

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An event organized by Michael D. Kennedy and Juho Korhonen

With the support of Maud Mandel, Dean of the College, Brown University, The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Department of History, Brown University, and Department of Sociology, Brown University.

In 1917, the fates of empires, the courses of nationalism, and the prospects of revolution defined political alternatives; by the end of that year, revolutionary socialism animated Russian state power. Its succeeding Soviet Union and subsequent state transformations made with its example in mind shaped the short 20th century.

In 2017, the fates of empires, the courses of nationalism, and radical transformations of a different sort define political alternatives. While political and economic structures shape the terms of our alternative futures, the possibilities embryonic in this world historical conjuncture are various. Historical depth and political imagination might not only inform how we understand the 21st century ahead, but plausibly shape it.