http://illinois.edu/calendar/list/919 Events of the University of Illinois Library and the Russian, East European & Eurasian Center. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/919/28562123 Workshop http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/919/28562123 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT The Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia is open to all scholars with research interests in the Russian, East European and Eurasian region for eight weeks during the summer months from June 10 until August 2. The SRL provides scholars access to the resources of the University of Illinois Slavic collection within a flexible time frame where scholars have the opportunity to seek advice and research support from the librarians of the Slavic Reference Service (SRS). http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/919/29042494 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/919/29042494 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:00:00 CDT Professor Retish is the author of Russia''s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922 (Cambridge UP, 2008) and co-editor of the journal Revolutionary Russia. In this lecture he will draw on his current book project funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, American Philosophical Foundation and NCEEER. Tentatively entitled ''In the Courts of Revolution: Vengeance, Legality, and Citizenship in the Rural Soviet Courtroom, 1917-1939,'' this research examines how rural Soviet citizens engaged local legal organs, such as the people''s courts, from the 1917 Communist revolution until the eve of World War II to reveal a vibrant legal culture among Soviet peasants. Professor Retish will pursue this research during his stay at SRL. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/919/29042495 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/919/29042495 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:00:00 CDT In most histories of the Soviet Union the story of the Gulag ends shortly after Stalin''s death. Yet the legacies of the Gulag in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union endured, being particularly vivid and problematic in the Arctic city of Vorkuta, built in the 1930s and 1940s by prisoners in one of the Soviet Union''s largest and most notorious prison camp complexes. This talk, taken from Alan Barenberg''s forthcoming book, Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta (Yale UP, 2014) will examine how the Gulag shaped life in the Soviet Union after Stalin''s death. Professor Barenberg''s current research interests include the comparative history of forced labor and the economic integration of Central Asia into the Russian/Soviet empires. He participates at SRL with a new project tentatively entitled ''Empire of Cotton: Cotton as an Imperial Commodity in Late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.''