Duty and Society: The History of Ageing in the Soviet Union

Name: Duty and Society: The History of Ageing in the Soviet Union
Start: 2026-10-22T12:15:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-22T13:45:00.000Z
Location: Universität Zürich Irchel

Lecture on how older people lived and narrated their lives in post-Stalinist Soviet Union, based on diaries and memoirs.

Date

Thursday 22 October

14:15 – 15:45

Venue

Universität Zürich Irchel

Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zürich

Price

Price on organiser’s site

Language

German

About

Automatically translated from German

Prof. Dr. Botakoz Kassymbekova from the University of Zurich's History Department presents a lecture on how older people in post-Stalinist Soviet Union experienced and narrated their lives in retirement. The lecture draws on current research using diaries, letters, memoirs and oral histories, set within the broader social and political context of Soviet history. Part of the programme offered by the Senior:innen-Universität Zürich UZH3.

Organiser · Senior:innen-Universität Zürich UZH3

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