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Natalya Chernyshova<\/strong><\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
\u2018Out of the Marshes and into the Nuclear Age: The Politics of Modernisation in Late Soviet Belarus, 1965-1980′<\/span><\/h2>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/01\/rechitsaneft-300x199.jpg\")
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Venue<\/strong>: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS<\/p>\n[QMUL Campus Map linked here]<\/a><\/p>\nBook here: Eventbrite<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n
About the Event:<\/strong><\/h3>\nBelarus emerged from the ashes of the Second World War to become the third most important Soviet republic. Previously a peasant borderland, it experienced a spectacular industrialisation leap in the first two post-war decades, which bore fruit and continued during the leadership of Petr Masherau, the Belarusian communist party\u2019s chief in 1965-1980. Under Masherau, expansion and modernisation of industry were seen as political priorities, and the story of national \u2018rags to riches\u2019, which celebrated rapid industrial progress and achievements, was just as prominent in public discourse as the commemoration of the war. While historians have focused on war memory as the most important tool of Soviet Belarusian nation-building, this paper argues that in the long 1970s, the politics of modernisation in Belarus became not only the centrepiece of the Soviet regime\u2019s legitimacy, but also a centrepiece of national Belarusian identity. Understanding its dynamics helps us understand how the late-Soviet empire functioned; it also helps explain Belarus\u2019 post-socialist trajectory.<\/p>\n
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About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/h3>\nNatalya Chernyshova<\/strong> is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary University of London. Her research and publications focus on Belarusian history, Soviet nationalities politics, and everyday life during late socialism, including the monograph\u00a0Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge, 2013). She is currently writing her second monograph, a history of Soviet Belarus in the long 1970s told through the prism of life and career of its charismatic communist leader, Petr\u00a0Masherau, a project funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2020-22.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/01\/NCh2022-300x286.jpeg\")
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Event outline<\/strong>:<\/h3>\nWelcome \u2013 18:00<\/p>\n
Lecture and discussion, chaired by Andy Willimott (QMUL) \u2013 18:05<\/p>\n
Drinks reception, meet the speaker \u2013 19:10<\/p>\n
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Venue<\/strong>: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS<\/p>\n [QMUL Campus Map linked here]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Belarus emerged from the ashes of the Second World War to become the third most important Soviet republic. Previously a peasant borderland, it experienced a spectacular industrialisation leap in the first two post-war decades, which bore fruit and continued during the leadership of Petr Masherau, the Belarusian communist party\u2019s chief in 1965-1980. Under Masherau, expansion and modernisation of industry were seen as political priorities, and the story of national \u2018rags to riches\u2019, which celebrated rapid industrial progress and achievements, was just as prominent in public discourse as the commemoration of the war. While historians have focused on war memory as the most important tool of Soviet Belarusian nation-building, this paper argues that in the long 1970s, the politics of modernisation in Belarus became not only the centrepiece of the Soviet regime\u2019s legitimacy, but also a centrepiece of national Belarusian identity. Understanding its dynamics helps us understand how the late-Soviet empire functioned; it also helps explain Belarus\u2019 post-socialist trajectory.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Natalya Chernyshova<\/strong> is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary University of London. Her research and publications focus on Belarusian history, Soviet nationalities politics, and everyday life during late socialism, including the monograph\u00a0Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge, 2013). She is currently writing her second monograph, a history of Soviet Belarus in the long 1970s told through the prism of life and career of its charismatic communist leader, Petr\u00a0Masherau, a project funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2020-22.<\/p>\n Welcome \u2013 18:00<\/p>\n Lecture and discussion, chaired by Andy Willimott (QMUL) \u2013 18:05<\/p>\n Drinks reception, meet the speaker \u2013 19:10<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To join our mailing list, participate in our programme of events, or find out how we can support your research, please contact hss-cerees@qmul.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-20:00 Natalya Chernyshova \u2018Out of the Marshes and into the Nuclear Age: The Politics of Modernisation in Late Soviet Belarus, 1965-1980′ Venue: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS [QMUL Campus Map linked here] Book here: Eventbrite […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Book here: Eventbrite<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Pitch a new CEREES Group<\/span><\/a> \u00a0\/ \u00a0Pitch a new CEREES Screening<\/a> \u00a0\/ \u00a0<\/span>Pitch a new CEREES Collaboration<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"