- 10:30 – 11:30 Session: Utopia and Technology
Chair: George Papanikolaou, Associate Professor Harokopion University
Lenin and the Machine. Techno-sate Imaginary and the End of Politics
Yiannis Ktenas, KABOOM Journal, Panteion University
Giorgos Pertsas, PhD candidate
Craftmanship and Wage Labour: An Incompatible Relation
Andreas Kyranis, Architect
Russian Revolution and the Ghost of the Mega-machine of Technical Domination
Giannis Raouzaios, Film critic, Writer
- 11:30 – 12:30 Session: Labour and Socialism
Chair: Despina Koutsoumba, Achaeologist
From the Challenge of Worker’s Democracy to the “Lure” of Employer’s Authoritarianism. Worker’s Self-management and Taylorism in Post-revolutionary Russia
Vassilis Minakakis, Editor, Writer
Money Theory and Labour Legislation in the USSR
Dimitris M. Moschos, Historian-Anthropologist
Does Labour Emancipate?
Social Relations of Production and Worker’s Emancipation
Kostas Charitakis, BΙOME Cooperative
- 12:30 – 13:30 Invited Speaker
Chair: Sofia Adam, Heinrich Boell Stiftung Thessaloniki Office
The primary party organizations of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) as an aspect of state-society relations in interwar USSR: The case of the Putilov-Kirov plant in Leningrad
Yiannis Kokosalakis, Historian, University College Dublin
- 13:30 – 14:00 Break
- 14:00 – 14:45 Session: Socialist Economy
Chair: Nefeli Pandiri, Political Scientist
Planned Economy and Black Market: Forms of Informal Economy in the USSR
Yiannis Leventidis, University of Athens
“Socialist Planning” and Enterprise in the USSR, 1929-1989
John (Giannis) Milios, National Technical University of Athens
- 14:45 – 15:30 Session: The Greeks and the Revolution
Chair: Nikos Potamianos, assistant researcher, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology
The Greek Communities in Russia during the Revolution
Andreas Zafeiris, University of Gorlovka
The Bolshevik Revolution through the Eyes of the Participants in the Greek Expeditionary Force
Tasos Kostopoulos, Historian-Journalist
- 15:30 – 16:30 Invited Speaker
Chair: Giorgos Nikolakakis, Associate Professor at the University of Crete
The chances, potential and reasons for the failure of the Social Revolutionary democratic alternative in 1917.
Konstantin Morozov, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
- 16:30 – 17:30 Invited Speaker
Chair: Vaso Seirinidou, Assistant Professor in Modern History, University of Athens
Alternative Plan of Evolution of Social Revolution in Russia, 1918-1924
Yaroslav Leontyev, Moscow State University
- 17:30 – 18:00 Break
- 18:00 – 19:00 Session: Historical Issues
Chair: Costas Raptis, Journalist
Danger Sign. The Timely Anarchist Warnings: Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin
Costas Despiniadis, Publishing house-journal “Panopticon”
Trotsky as Supporter of Compulsive Labour
Dimitris Belantis, PhD, Writer
Mensheviks: The Problem of Democracy from Tsarist Russia to the Soviet Union
Giannis Chatziantoniou, Lawyer
- 19:00 – 20:00 Invited Speaker
Chair: Dimitris J. Kyrtatas, Professor University of Thessaly
Reality and Legend of the Russian Revolution
Ettore Cinnella, University of Pisa
- 20:00 – 21:00 Invited Speaker
Chair: Spyros Dapergolas, Designer
The Evolution of the Political Position of Anarchists in the Russian Revolution of 1917-1922
Dmitry Rublev, Сandidate of Historical Sciences, Docent of Moscow State University (MSU)