Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Certificate

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Literacy is the Path to Communism

Literacy is the Path to Communism. Poster from the collection of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Five College Slavic Seminar

Five College Slavic Seminar serves as a forum for faculty and graduate students to discuss work in progress.
In the 2011-12, the Slavic Seminar meetings will be held at the Lewis Sebring Hall on the campus of Amherst College.

Speakers in the Slavic Seminar in 2011-12:


October 20 (7PM, Lewis Sebring, Amherst College):

Regine Spector (Smith College)

" All in the Family?” Property Struggles and Patronage Politics in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan

November 16

Irina Sandomirskaia (Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn university, Sweden)

Exhausted Theory, or Stalin as Language: Reading Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950).


Spring 2012


Date TBA Lauren McCarthy (UMass-Amherst)



Background paper for Regine Spector's presentation.