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On Clientelism and Nationality in the Early Soviet Periphery
Date:
Thursday, 30 Sep 2021
Time:
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location:
online
Department:
Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Event Details:

On Clientelism and Nationality in the Early Soviet Periphery

This talk will be based on some of the key aspects of the intersection of patron-client relations and Soviet nationality policy in the Abkhazian SSR in the 1920s and 1930s, drawn from the speaker's recent book Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba (Routledge, 2021). 

Timothy K. Blauvelt is Professor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and is also Regional Director for the South Caucasus for American Councils for International Education. He has a PhD in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has lived and worked in Georgia (and also in Russia and Ukraine) for the past two decades.  He has published several dozen peer reviewed articles and book chapters on Soviet, Russian and Caucasus history and politics, and is the co-editor (with Jeremy Smith) of Georgia after Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet Power published by Routledge in 2016, and (with Adrian Brisku) of The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic of 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects, published by Routledge in 2021.