Conference "1917/2017. Revolutions, Communist Legacies and Spectres of the Future" / St-Petersburg / October 24–26 2017

European University at St. Petersburg, Deadline : August 15th 2017 What is the meaning of the event of the 1917 revolutions for us today? What did 1917 open and what did it block? What are its legacies and what is the relation of 1917 to the perspective from which its legacies are assessed? We would like to speak particularly of the political, social, and intellectual legacy of 1917 which has not been sufficiently pronounced in comparison to the French revolution of 1789. Does ‘revolution’ c..