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Directors

Wendy Z. Goldman
Department of History
Carnegie Mellon University
goldman@andrew.cmu.edu

Alissa Klots
Department of History
University of Pittsburgh
alissaklots@pitt.edu

Socialist Studies Seminar

The Socialist Studies Seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar with faculty and graduate student participation from the greater Pittsburgh area. It is devoted to the study of socialist states and movements throughout the world. It meets once a month to discuss readings, the scholarly work of its participants, films, and presentations from invited speakers.

Fall 2025 Seminars

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Spring 2025 Seminars

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Fall 2024 Seminars

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Spring 2024 Seminars

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Spring 2023 Seminars

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Fall 2023 Seminars

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Spring 2022 Seminars

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Fall 2022 Seminars

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Past Lectures

The Late Soviet Socialist Revival

Multiracial Communists and the National Question in the 1970s

Africa for Africans!

Friday, November 9, 2018

Bolshevism as a Revolutionary Collective

Friday, October 12, 2018

Making a River Border

Friday, April 13, 2018

Workers’ Control of the Factories?

Friday, February 23, 2018

German POWs in the USSR, 1941-1956

Friday, January 26, 2018