Organizers:
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF)
Cold War International
History Project (Wilson Center, Washington, DC)
The National Security
Archive (Washington, DC)
In cooperation with:
The Center for the Study of
Force and Diplomacy, Temple University (Philadelphia)
Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politsche Bildung (Potsdam)
With financial support from:
The Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations (New
York)
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago)
The Smith Richardson Foundation (Westport, CT)
Volkswagen
Stiftung (Hannover)
Languages: Simultaneous translation: English & German & Russian
William TAUBMAN (Woodrow Wilson Center)
Thomas S. BLANTON/ Malcolm BYRNE (National Security Archive)
Panelists:
Torsten DIEDRICH (MGFA Potsdam)
“Militarization as
Cause of the Crisis and the Suppression of the
Uprising by the Armed Forces”
Ruud van DIJK (Ohio University)
“The German Question
Dropped, Revisited and Frozen. The Kremlin, the
East Germans and the GDR, 1952-1953”
Manfred HAGEN (Göttingen University)
“Long-term
Consequences of the June Uprising on Population
and Party”
Monika KAISER (ZZF Potsdam)
“The SED Leadership
and the Crisis of the Stalinist System”
Ilko-Sascha KOWALCZUK (Humboldt University,
Berlin)
“June 17 in Recent Research: Social Classes
and Political Actors”
Helmut MÜLLER-ENBERGS (Federal Commission for
the Records of the former GDR State Security, Berlin)
“The Stasi and June 17, 1953”
12.00-13.00
LUNCH
13.00-15:45
Session II A: New Evidence on the “Beria Affair”
Chair: William TAUBMAN (Amherst College)
Mark KRAMER (Harvard University)
“New Evidence on
the Beria Question”
Vojtech MASTNY (Wilson Center)
“Missed Opportunities
After Stalin’s Death”
Gerhard WETTIG (BIOST Cologne)
“Did Beria Seek
Agreement on Germany”
Vladislav ZUBOK (NSA)
“The Succession Struggle and
Soviet Policy on Germany”
Elke SCHERSTJANOI (IfZ Potsdam)
15:45-16:15
BREAK
16:15-19:00
Session II B: Soviet ‘Deutschlandpolitik’ Before and After the June
Uprising
Chair: Alexander O. CHUBARIAN (Institute of Universal History)
Hope HARRISON (Lafayette College)
“Soviet
Deutschlandpolitik before and after June 17, 1953”
Sergej Vladimirovich MIRONENKO (State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow)
Faina NOVIK (Russian Academy of Sciences)
“Soviet
Policy Towards the GDR After June 17, 1953”
Leonid RESHIN (Moscow)
“The Events of June 17 in the
GDR as Reflected in the Moscow Archives”
Zoia Constantinovna VODOPIANOVA (Storage Center for Contemporary Documentation, Moscow)
Chair: Malcolm BYRNE (The National Security Archive)
Andras B. HEGEDUS (Institute for the History of the 1956
Revolution, Budapest)
“The Impact of Stalin’s
Death in Hungary”
Wanda JARZABEK (Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw)
“New Polish Evidence on the 1953
Uprising in the GDR”
Mihai RETEGAN (University of Bucharest)
“Stalin’s
Death and the Romanian Response”
Jan FOITZIK (IfZ Berlin)
11:45-13.00
LUNCH
13.00-16.00
Session IV: The West and the 1953 Uprising
Chair: James G. HERSHBERG (CWIHP)
Gary BRUCE (McGill University)
“The MfS, the West
and the June 17 Uprising”
Klaus LARRES
“Great Britain and the June 1953
Uprising”
Michael LEMKE
"Adenauer and June 17, 1953"
Bernd STÖVER (U. Potsdam)
"American Discussions and
Political Strategies after the Uprising"
Christian F. OSTERMANN (The National Security Archive)
16.00-16.30
BREAK
16.30-19.00
Session V: The Legacies and Historical Significance of the 1953
Uprising (Roundtable)
Chair: Jürgen KOCKA (Free University Berlin)
Manfred GÖRTEMAKER (Potsdam University)
Stefan HEYM (Berlin)
György LITVAN (Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest)
Wilfried LOTH (KWI Essen)
Hans MISSELWITZ (Bandenburg State Agency for Political Education, Potsdam)
Edgar WOLFRUM (Free University Berlin)
Venue: ZZF, Potsdam
For information about the Conference, contact Christian Ostermann at the National Security Archive: chrisost@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
The National Security Archive,
The Gelman Library, George Washington University
2130 H Street, NW, Suite 701, Washington, DC 20037
Phone: 202-994-7000 / Fax: 202-994-7005
Internet: nsarchiv@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu