{"id":1887,"date":"2024-04-08T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2024-04-18T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T09:54:19","slug":"cerees-lecture-and-archive-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/2024\/04\/08\/cerees-lecture-and-archive-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"CEREES Lecture and Archive Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><b>Wednesday 8 May,<\/b> 2024, 18:00-20:00<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Soviet Famine in Moldova:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Why was the Soviet famine of 1946-7 the most severe in the Moldavian SSR? Preliminary conclusions based on Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Kyiv<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong><strong> and Moscow archives<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span lang=\"EN-US\">Igor Ca\u0219u <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>(<span lang=\"EN-US\">National Agency for Archives, State University of Moldova<\/span>)<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1888\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/Igor-Casu-Paris-2022_-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/Igor-Casu-Paris-2022_-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/Igor-Casu-Paris-2022_-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/Igor-Casu-Paris-2022_.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1889\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/foto-Basarabia-1946-47-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/foto-Basarabia-1946-47-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/foto-Basarabia-1946-47.jpg 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong>: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph.qmul.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/Article\/Mile-End-campus-map.pdf\">[QMUL Campus Map linked here]<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Book here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/cerees-lecture-and-archive-talk-soviet-famine-in-moldova-1946-7-tickets-879584018477?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Eventbrite<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About the Event:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Soviet famine of 1946-1947 is the last and the least researched famine in the USSR\u2019s history. The reference books on the postwar famine are outdated conceptually and empirically (Zima, 1996) or limited mainly to the international context (Ganson, 2009). As a few recent books or articles on the Soviet famine of 1931-1933 show (Ohayon (2006), Kindler (2018), Cameron (2018), and Pianciola (2019), the clue to understanding the famine phenomena is to address the regional dimension and embark on a multidisciplinary approach. For at least one-quarter of a century, it is acknowledged that the Soviet postwar famine was the most severe proportionally in the Moldavian SSR. Ten times more people died, proportionally, in present-day Moldova than in Russia, and five times more than in Ukraine (Ellman, 2000). Igor Ca\u0219u\u00a0uses unpublished archival materials from Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia to explain why according to the three main indicators of the famine \u2013 dystrophy, excess deaths, and cannibalism \u2013 it was most devastating in the Moldavian SSR, indeed in the historical Bessarabia, including in areas given to Ukraine, in the north, and especially south, in the strategically important areas on the Black Sea coast and Danube mouths.<\/p>\n<p>Igor Ca\u0219u&#8217;s opening lecture will be followed by an archive talk on using the National Archives of Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia, drawing on his experience as D<span lang=\"EN-US\">irector of the National Agency for Archives at State University of Moldova.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Igor Ca\u0219u<\/strong> is the director of the National Agency for Archives, since April 2022, and a Lecturer at the State University of Moldova, Chi\u0219in\u0103u, since September 1998. He defended his Ph.D. thesis in March 2000 at the Ia\u0219i University in Romania on \u201cNationalities policy in Soviet Moldavia, 1944-1989\u201d. From January to June 2010, he was deputy chairman of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Communist Totalitarian Regine in the Republic of Moldova in charge of research on \u201cPolitical Repressions from 1953 to the late 1980s\u201d. In February-August 2016 he was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University giving talks on postwar famine at Toronto University, Yale, Harvard, and Stanford. In March 2020 he was NEC Visiting Scholar at Davis Center, Harvard University. His recent publications include \u201cThe Benefits of Comparison: Famine in Kazakhstan in the Early 1930s in Soviet Context\u201d, in <em>Journal of Genocide Research<\/em>, Volume 22, issue 3, 2020, and \u201cDo Starving People Rebel? Hunger Riots as Bab\u2019y Bunty in Spring 1946 Soviet Moldavia\u201d, in <em>New Europe College\u2019s Yearbook<\/em> (Bucharest), 2020 and \u201cPolice vs. Party? Institutional Hierarchies and Agency in Soviet Moldavia, 1944-1952\u201d, in <em>Contemporary European History<\/em>, vol. 32, no. 1, 2022. He is working on a book on the postwar famine in Soviet Moldavia in the European context, 1946-47.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-769\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/08\/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-362901499-534162707927-1-original.20220928-135654-300x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/08\/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-362901499-534162707927-1-original.20220928-135654-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/08\/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-362901499-534162707927-1-original.20220928-135654-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/08\/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-362901499-534162707927-1-original.20220928-135654.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Event outline<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<p>Welcome and introduction \u2013 18:00<\/p>\n<p>Lecture: Soviet Famine in Moldova \u2013 18:10<\/p>\n<p>Moldavian Archive overview \u2013 18:40<\/p>\n<p>Q&amp;A, chaired by Natalaya Chernyshova (QMUL) \u2013 18:50<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Drinks reception, meet the speaker \u2013 19:10<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 8 May, 2024, 18:00-20:00 &nbsp; Soviet Famine in Moldova: Why was the Soviet famine of 1946-7 the most severe in the Moldavian SSR? Preliminary conclusions based on Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Kyiv, and Moscow archives &nbsp; Igor Ca\u0219u (National Agency for Archives, State University of Moldova) &nbsp; &nbsp; Venue: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/2024\/04\/08\/cerees-lecture-and-archive-talk\/\">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-1887","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\/1887","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=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}