Entre la Révolution française de 1789 et la Révolution russe de 1905, la révolte sociale et la guerre apparaissent comme des conditions préalables à la création d’une nation. En Europe de l’Est, où la Grande Guerre a donné lieu à une multitude de conflits secondaires à partir de la fin de 1917, les deux idées, devenues des revendications politiques majeures au cours du long XIXe siècle, à savoir la révolution sociale et la construction de la nation, ont gagné et mobilisé les masses.
Néaumoins, au cours de l’histoire la construction de l’État en pratique diffère souvent de la construction dans les discours. L’expérience ukrainienne entre 1917 et 1922 est un exemple emblématique de construction de l’État en pratique, dans un contexte de guerre et de guerre civile.
Séminaire organisé par l’IHA, le Labex-EHNE Écrire une Historie Nouvelle de l’Europe et le Imre Kertesz Kolleg Iéna. Soutenu par l’Université franco-allemande.
Programme
11.12.17 (18:00-21:00) Keynote
18:00-18:45 Mikhail Minakov (Frankfurt on the Oder/Kiev):
Keanote ‘Modernizing Ukraine: Revolutions and Distopias in the 20th Century’
Revolution is the event of launching new beginnings in the public sphere, and thus modernity is being constructed through revolution. In the 20th century, Ukraine has gone through a series of revolutions: in 1917/22, 1932/39, 1945/49, 1953/56, 1989/91; however instead leading to modernization, they had – after shortlived progresses – the reverse effect. In my lecture I will review the logic of socio-political experimentation in 20th century Ukraine and the revolutionary practices in Eastern Europe.
18:45-19:30 Discussion
19:30-21:00 Reception
12.12.17 (09:30-18:00) Workshop ‘The Ukrainian Experiment: State-Building in Practice (1917-22)’
09:30–10:00 Welcome / Introduction (Jochen Böhler, Jena/Paris, François Xavier Nerard, Paris)
10:00–11:00 Panel 1: The Look ‘from Above’ and ‘from Below’ (Chair: Mikhail Minnakov, Frankfurt on the Oder/Kiev)
- Iryna Vushko (New York): Ukrainian Nationalism and State Building
- Dimitri Tolkatsch (Freiburg): The Ukrainian Peasants and State Building
- Discussion
11:00–11:30 Coffee/tea break
11:30–12:30 Panel 2: ‘The Left’ (Chair: François Xavier Nerard, Paris)
- Serhiy Hirik (Kiev): The Borotbists and Ukrainian State Building
- Eric Aunoble (Geneva): Constructing a Revolutionary State. The Example of Soviet Ukraine in Early 1919
- Discussion
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–15:00 Panel 3: Violence (Chair: Jochen Böhler, Jena/Paris)
- Stephen Velychenko (Toronto): “You Can Get a Lot Further with a Kind Word and a Gun than with just a Kind Word.” Violence, Propaganda, and State-Building in Revolutionary Ukraine
- Thomas Chopard (London): Anti-Jewish Violence in the State-Building of the Directory (Ideology and Practices)
- Discussion
15:00–16:00 Panel 4: Failed Concepts (Chair: Corine Defrance, Paris)
- Jakob Mischke (Vienna): Scientific state-building: Stanislav Dnistrjanskyj’s concepts for an Ukrainian state in Eastern Galicia
- Immo Rebitschek (Gießen): Pavel Skoropadskyi’s Failed Efforts of Ukrainian State Building
- Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee/tea break
17:00-18:00 General Plenary Discussion
18:00 End of Workshop