Libraries of Russia: The opening of the exhibition “Russian socialists during the First World War 1914-1918: search of solutions for War and Peace”

21 November 2014
Source: NLR

November 21 in the new building of the National Library of Russia starts working the exhibition “Russian socialists during the First World War 1914-1918: search of solutions for War and Peace”.

The exhibition is timed to the VI National and International conference “Social democracy and problems of war and peace in the context of globalization: did we learn lessons from the First World War and other wars of the XX century?”. The conference will be held in the House of Plekhanov on November 21023, 2014. Scientists from Russia, the USA, Turkey, Greece will deliver their speeches. 

Reports:

- Historical kinds and types of war and their evolution;

- The origin and genesis of the world market: military-historical problems and perspectives;

- Background, causes and effects of local and world wars. Wars, revolutions, counterrevolutions;

- Problems of war and peace in ideology, programs and practice of political parties and movements;

- Experience for struggle for peace and disarmament in the XX century: victories and defeats;

- Nationalism, patriotism, internationalism, cosmopolitanism and problems of war and peace;

- Universal peace – utopia of inevitable result of the completion of “prehistory”?

The Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps will present 13 items relating to the period of the First World War. Among the exhibit are Light machine gun of the French system of Shosha of 1915, the rifle of the system Mosin of 1891, the soldier’s Dragoon saber of 1881, the military uniform and others.

Especially for the exhibition at the NLR the Consulate General of the USA selected 20 publications of the American historiography, posters of 1914-1918 and feature films.

The Frankfurt Book Fair and the Book-Information Center in Moscow will present a collection from 30 publications of modern Western researchers, dedicated to the First World War and issued in 2013-1014.

The exhibition will be open until December 5. The entrance is free.