Prof. William Chase (University of Pittsburgh):
Taking stock and re-conceptualizing our approach to the Stalinist mass repression
Prof. Ronald Suny (Michigan University):
Breaking Eggs, Making Omelettes: Explaining Terror in Lenin and Stalin's Revolutions
Dr. David Priestland (Oxford University)
A Red Terror? 1937 in Comparative Context.
Prof. Stephen Wheatcroft (University of Melbourne)
Quantitative Aspects of Mass Judicial and Extra-Judicial Repression, 1900 to 1953
Prof. Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)
Violence and Terror in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
Prof. David Brandenberger (University of Richmond)
Ideology and the Great Terror
Dr. Vladimir Khaustov (FSB Academy, Moscow)
Stalin and the Political Police, 1920-1953
Prof. Paul Hagenloh (University of Syracuse)
The Leninist State and the Origins of Stalinist Repression, 1917-1921
Dr. Iain Lauchlan (University of Edinburgh)
An Ideal Bolshevik: Felix Dzerzhinsky and the Origins of Stalinism
Dr. James Harris (University of Leeds)
Stalin’s Spymania and the Great Terror
Prof. Andrea Graziosi (University of Napoli)
Terror as Response to Crisis
Prof. Alain Blum (EHESS, Paris)
From 1928 to 1937-1938: the criminalization of everyday life and individual networks
Prof. Nicolas Werth (CNRS, Paris)
Targeting and picking up the victims of the « mass operations »
Dr. Alastair Kocho-Williams (University of Western England)
‘Stalin’s Terror, the Narkomindel and Foreign Policy’
Dr. Sabine Dullin, (Sorbonne, Paris).
Terror, terrorism and the soviet diplomatic use of international law, 1934-35
Prof. David Shearer (University of Delaware)
Mass Repression and the Argument of Social Engineering under Stalin
Prof. Lennart Samuelson (Stockholm School of Economics)
Roots of the Tukhachevskii Affair
Dr. Oleg Khlevniuk (State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow)
The Anatomy of Stalin’s Terror
Prof. J. Arch Getty (UCLA)
Origins of the Mass Operations of 1937-38
Dr. Gábor T. Rittersporn (CNRS, Paris)
Police and Justice before, during and after the Terror
Dr. E. A. Rees (University of Birmingham)
The Great Terror of 1937-39: The Basis of an Intellectual and Ethical Justification
Prof. Lynne Viola (University of Toronto)
The Question of the Perpetrator in the Stalinist 1930s
Prof. Jeffrey Rossman (University of Virginia)
The Everyday Life of NKVD Perpetrators during the Great Terror
Prof. Wendy Goldman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Mass Participation and Terror on the Local Level
Prof. J. Arch Getty (UCLA)
The Rise and Fall of the Clans
Dr. Melanie Ilic (University of Gloucestershire)
Victims of the Great Terror in Leningrad: documents from the Leningrad martyrolog
Prof. Anna Geifman, (Boston University)
“Did Soviet Citizens Love Stalin?”
Dr. Rosaria Franco (University of Nottingham, China)
‘Saving’ or 'damning' the children? The Soviet welfare state and the children of the ‘enemies of the people’ in historical perspective.
Prof. Matt Lenoe (University of Rochester)
The OGPU in Leningrad Politics: Therapist, Intercessor, Executioner
Prof. A. G. Tepliakov (Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk)
Use, then eliminate: State repression among secret agents of the Cheka-NKVD
Dr. Marc Junge (Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum)
Mass Repression in Georgia 1937-1938. Ethnic Cleansing as Concomitant Effect of Social and Political Persecution.
Prof. Cynthia Hooper (College of the Holy Cross)
Reining in the Whirlwind
Dr. Igal Halfin (University of Tel Aviv)
Messianic Everyday at Leningrad Communist University during Terror
