Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction

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A conference to share as much practical and methodological information as possible to give all new researchers in the history of former Soviet States a head start so they could avoid getting bogged down in administrative or organisational difficulties. The conference had a strong interdisciplinary focus, incorporating talks on History, Film, Theatre, Visual Art, Literature, Language, Music, Cultural Studies and Memory.

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#		Episode Title	Description	Duration	People	Date
1	Creative Commons	Using Manuscripts to Research Russian History - The Case of 17th Century Medical Texts	First Presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:24:15	Clare Griffin	22 Feb 2011
2	Creative Commons	Researching Soviet Social History in the 1920s	Second Presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:18:02	Andy Willimot	22 Feb 2011
3	Creative Commons	But there was no humour in the 1930s! - Researching around the system	Third presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference.	0:23:13	Jon Waterlow	22 Feb 2011
4	Creative Commons	Using 1950s-1960s sources: the case of Soviet Policy in west Africa	Fourth presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:13:42	Alessandro Iandolo	22 Feb 2011
5	Creative Commons	The Human Science in Revolutionary Russia: Using specialist and 'thick' journals	Fifth presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:18:37	Daniel Beer	22 Feb 2011
6		More 'History from the side': Researching Social History of Medicine of the Late Imperial and Early Soviet era	Sixth presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:17:01	Simon Pawley	22 Feb 2011
7	Creative Commons	Silence in the Archives	Seventh presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:18:59	Claire Knight	22 Feb 2011
8	Creative Commons	Sonic Sources and the study of Bela Bartok's 'Romanian Folk Dances	Eight presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:15:26	Joshua Waldon	22 Feb 2011
9	Creative Commons	Whose Voice is it Anyway? - Film Dubbing in the Soviet Republic	Ninth presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:17:59	JJ Gurga	22 Feb 2011
10	Creative Commons	A Russianist's Adventures in Central Asian Cinema	Tenth presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:14:58	Seth Graham	22 Feb 2011
11	Creative Commons	Listening for Twenty Years	Eleventh presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:25:20	Catharine Merridale	22 Feb 2011
12	Creative Commons	Myth, Memory, Fandom: Konstantin Simonov and his Readers in the 1950s and 1960s	Twelfth presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:29:37	Polly Jones	22 Feb 2011
13	Creative Commons	The Elusive Censor: The Difficulties of Researching Soviet Censorship	Thirteenth presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:22:06	Samantha Sherry	22 Feb 2011
14	Creative Commons	Newspapers Beyond Text: Mapping Komosomol'skaya pravda, 1950-1964	Fourteenth presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:19:29	Simon Huxtable	22 Feb 2011
15	Creative Commons	Research in Private vs. Institutional Archives: Difference in Approaches, Unity of Aims	Fifteenth and final presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow	0:21:25	Alex Titov	22 Feb 2011
16	Creative Commons	Introduction to the Conference	Jonathan Waterlow introduces the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference.	0:01:26	Jonathan Waterlow	01 Mar 2011