CRRC-Azerbaijan invites you on a presentation by Jeff Sahadeo:  

Azerbaijani Traders in Moscow: Then and now 

 

Date: June 27, 2012

Time: 16:00

Location: CRRC-Azerbaijan, Khazar University, 122 Bashir Safaroglu Street, Baku

Overview: The research presents the experiences of Azerbaijanis who traded on the streets of Moscow in the Soviet period and the new generation who continues this practice today. It will examine the opportunities and challenges that each group faced in contacts with the host Slavic population, who alternately valued the quality of goods brought from the south and resented the wealth that Azerbaijani traders accumulated in “their” city.  The talk will also discuss the importance of this trade for Azerbaijan itself, through remittances and continued post-Soviet linkages.  Oral histories and interviews as well as contemporary press surveys form the basis for this presentation.

Lecturer Bio:  Jeff Sahadeo is associate professor and director at the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada).  He received his Ph. D. in History at the University of Illinois in 2000.  His publications include Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923 and a co-edited volume, Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present (both published by Indiana University Press, 2007).   He has contributed articles from his current project to Central Asian Survey and has most recently published “Soviet Blacks and Place Making in Leningrad and Moscow” Slavic Review 71, no. 2 (2012): 331-358.

Language: The presentation will be conducted in English.

Registration: To attend the presentation, please confirm your participation by writing to Seymur Javadov via seymur@crrccenters.org before June 27th, 2012.