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• 15 mar 2013

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  A Forgotten October? Russia in 1993

  From 21 September to 4 October 1993, Russia experienced a major political crisis. The political confrontation between President Boris Yeltsin and the Parliament ended with the storming of Parliament by the army on 4 October, and the arrests of the rebel deputies and their supporters : more than 150 were dead and 400 injured. October 1993 has been considered as a stage in the regime's derailment from democracy and as forming the matrix of political developments in the country leading to Vladmir Putin. Twenty years after October 1993, this Conference aims to propose a sociological analysis of this crucial but neglected political crisis. To this end, it seeks to question the official version of the event, and will restore the place of alternative accounts and memories. It will analyse the debates on different political models and economic reformes so as to understand the stakes of the conflict as identified by the actors.

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