Join the History Department, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Estonian American National Council for a special symposium on the everyday experience of Soviet Power in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) in the 1960s and 1970s. Join us as Dr. Karsten Brüggemann, Dr. Kristo Nurmis, and Airi Uuna from Tallinn University present their research on the national particularities and transnational commonalities of life in the Soviet “west”. They will discuss the function of Soviet propaganda in the Estonian SSR and the role of marketing in a command economy through the Soviet-Estonian advertising company, ERF.
Speaker Biographies:
Karsten Brüggemann is the Professor of Political and Social History at the School of Humanities of Tallinn University. He received his PhD in history from the University of Hamburg in 1999 with a study of the Russian Civil War in the Baltic region: Die Gründung der Republik Estland und das Ende des ‚Einen und Unteilbaren Rußland‘ (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002)
Kristo Nurmis is a historian and a research fellow at the Tallinn University School of Humanities. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in the field of Russian and Eastern European History (2022). Kristo is currently working on a book project exploring the politics of legitimacy and mass influence in the Soviet and Nazi occupied Baltic States from 1939-53.
Airi Uuna is a junior research fellow at Tallinn University. Her dissertation "Advertisement in the Soviet Union: The Example of the Estonian Commercial Film Producers" focuses on the Soviet-Estonian advertising company, ERF.
This event is free and open to the public.
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