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  • Soviet & Post-Soviet Wars: An Oral History Project

    http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/5856

    For some years now, the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies has introduced in its issues the publication of interviews with veterans, war reporters, or other witnesses of the Soviet and post-Soviet wars. Indeed, it seemed important to us to gather the testimony of witnesses who are still alive in order to shed light on past or current conflicts. Today, PIPSS wishes to intensify the practice of collecting oral testimonies which was initiated in 2011. To mark its 15th anniversary, Pipss is launching an oral history project on Soviet and post-Soviet wars which aims to collect and make available interviews of participants in armed conflicts conducted by researchers during their fieldwork, regardless of the focus of their research.

    The Project’s Objectives

    This project aims to enhance the value of the corpus collected by researchers in order to open up and create exchanges between disciplines and approaches. These past years, researchers from all disciplines (humanities and social sciences) have increasingly produced and still continue to produce oral sources that are used only to a limited extent in the context of articles. These interviews cover a wide range of themes, focuses and angles. Different approaches are used: open, semi-open or closed questionnaire, with or without interview grids, life course etc. War is sometimes dealt with centrally; sometimes conflict is only approached as a stage in a life course, in a trajectory. Whatever their approaches, they are all of great value to understand wars.

    #histoire #histoire_orale #urrs #ex-urss #études_post-soviétiques

  • La Russie un siècle après la Révolution d’octobre : la renaissance d’un pouvoir impérial ?

    Les Cafés Géo »

    http://cafe-geo.net/la-russie-un-siecle-apres-la-revolution-d-octobre-la-renaissance-d-un-pouv

    La chute de l’Empire tsariste et surtout la prise de pouvoir par les bolcheviks avaient marqué en 1917 la fin officielle de la référence impériale, et la proclamation de la construction d’un Etat de type radicalement nouveau. L’évolution ultérieure de l’URSS a donné corps à la théorie du retour des logiques impériales, notamment lors des phases d’expansion impulsées par Staline. Lors de l’éclatement de l’URSS en 1991, on a pu croire à la fondation d’une nouvelle Russie, « plus petite mais meilleure », apte à se développer dans des frontières sûres et reconnues. Mais est-on aujourd’hui, après les multiples interventions russes des dernières années (Géorgie, Ukraine), en train d’assister à la résurgence de ce qu’on pourrait qualifier d’une puissance impériale, pour laquelle la volonté d’expansion territoriale et de contrôle des marges deviennent centrales dans l’idéologie politique ?

    #russie #révolution_russe #urrs #ex-urss