Utopia Dystopia: The Legacy of the Russian Revolution 100 Years On

Recorded March 5, 2018. A panel discussion chaired by Professor
John Horne with Dr Judith Devlin, Dr Balazs Apor, Dr Orysia Kulick
and Dr Molly Pucci. Concluding the Utopia Dystopia lecture series,
this distinguished panel will reflect on the legacy of the Russian
Revolution right up to today and how it changed the course of world
history at many levels. See more about the Utopia Dystopia series
here -
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/utopia-dystopia.php
Balazs Apor is Assistant Professor in European Studies, TCD. His
research focuses on the history of Central and Eastern Europe in
the 19-20th centuries and the history of communism in particular.
He has a special interest in the functioning of rituals in
Soviet-type societies, and the way Sovietisation led to the
extensive ritualisation of political language. Orysia Kulick is a
Research Fellow in the School of Languages, Literatures and
Cultural Studies, TCD. She is working on ‘COURAGE’, a Horizon 2020
funded research project that explores the cultural heritage of
dissent in former socialist countries, with responsibility for
contributions about Ukraine and Ukrainian émigré communities. Molly
Pucci is an Assistant Professor of Twentieth Century European
History, TCD. Her research interests include the history of
communism, legal history, and the history of policing in twentieth
century Europe. She is working on a book which examines the
creation of communist secret police institutions in Czechoslovakia,
Poland, and Eastern Germany in the period following the Second
World War. Judith Devlin is a Professor of History in UCD. Her
research interests include modern Russia, its contemporary history
and political culture and latterly, the culture, politics and
society of the Stalin era. Recent research has included work on
film history, media history, cultural politics and reception. Her
current work concerns the cult of Stalin. John Horne is former
Professor of Modern European History at TCD (until 2015), where he
was also founder of the Centre for War Studies. He has written
extensively on modern France and the trans-national history of the
Great War. He has also worked on Ireland and the Great War and
published (with Edward Madigan), Towards Commemoration: Ireland in
War and Revolution, 1912-1923 (Royal Irish Academy, 2013). Learn
more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/