November 17, 2023 at 12:00 pm on the Microsoft Teams platform will be held the next expert seminar with Prof. Małgorzata Abassy from Jagiellonian University, Poland entitled "Contested Legacy: the argument about Lenin".

 

 

Abstract: Lenin is a symbol of the Russian revolution 1917, both in political and cultural dimensions. His central position, however, has been contested by Vladimir Putin. The dispute about Lenin is not new in modern history of Russia. In early 2000’s a discussion started whether to move the Lenin’s from the Kremlin wall’s neighborhood or to leave it untouched. Then it was connected with the Communist legacy that had been questioned. Putin was the one who supported the position to leave the October Revolution’s leader alone. The Russia’s president has changed his mind after the war in Ukraine started. He uses Lenin in speeches concerning Ukraine’s past and future.

Małgorzata Abassy is an Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, at the Faculty of International and Political Studies. She holds the posts of Director of the Institute of Russian and Eastern Europe Studies and Head of Unit for Modern Russian Culture and Cultural Systems Theory. She is a member of the following learned societies: Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (as of 2020), Societas Iranologica Europea (2011) and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences/ Commission of Slavic Culture Studies (2012). She has published five monographs (incl. Modernization in the shadow of Allah: modern Iran, 2019 (in Polish) and Culture against progress and modernization. Russia and Iran in comparative perspective, 2013 (in Polish)) as well as several dozen research papers including comparative perspectives on Belarus, Russia and Poland.

Link to the Lecture by prof. M. Abassy