Please join the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Department of History for a special guest lecture with Artemy Kalinovsky, Professor of History at Temple University.
Speaker Biography: Artemy Kalinovsky is a professor of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet studies at Temple University. His first book, A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard UP, 2011), and second book, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Cornell UP, 2018) won the Davis and Hewett prizes from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He is currently working on a European Research Council-funded project that studies the legacies of socialist development in contemporary Central Asia to examine entanglements between socialist and capitalist development approaches in the late 20th century.
Abstract: How did Central Asian states approach the transition from state socialism? Why did they embrace some reforms and not others? This talk will argue that making sense of these questions requires examining the role of the social scientists working within and outside government in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as their interactions with international organizations like the World Bank and the IMF. Tracing their positions on questions such as utility pricing, social welfare, and labor, the talk will show how archival research, combined with other methods, can shed new light on this contentious period.
This talk is held in conjunction with the Central Eurasian Studies Society’s 2025 Graduate and Early Career Scholar Interdisciplinary Workshop” to be held at Ohio State September 12-13, 2025
If you have any questions about accessibility or wish to request accommodations, please contact us at cseees@osu.edu. Typically, a two weeks' notice will allow us to provide access.
