Alexander Reznik
- Associate Professor: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Director: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Centre for Historical Research
- Alexander Reznik has been at HSE University since 2017.
Education and Degrees
Thesis Title: The Left Opposition in the RCP(b), 1923-1924
European University in St Petersburg
Perm State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2016–2017 — University of Basel, postdoctoral researcher
Awards and Accomplishments
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2020–2021)
Category "New Lecturers under 30" (2018–2019)
Editorial board membership
Courses (2024/2025)
- Global Political Ideologies of the 20th Century (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar "History" (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Mentor's Seminar "History" (Master; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Methodology of Historical Reseach and Contemporary Historiography (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Soviet Project in a Global Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- 20th-Century Personality Cults (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- 20th-Century Personality Cults (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Mentor's Seminar "History" (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Mentor's Seminar "History" (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Methodology of Historical Reseach and Contemporary Historiography (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- New Political History of the Russian Revolution, 1917-1922 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Soviet Project in a Global Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- History of Soviet Society (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Methodology of Historical Reseach and Contemporary Historiography (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar - 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Russia in the Period of Revolution and Civil War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- 20th-Century Personality Cults (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Historiography of Russian Empire and Soviet society (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Historiography of Russian Empire and Soviet society (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Methodology of Historical Reseach and Contemporary Historiography (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar - 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Russia in the Period of Revolution and Civil War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Political History of Russia and Foreign Countries (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Political Projects of XX cent. (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Reseach Seminar 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Russia in the Period of Revolution and Civil War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Topics in Current Historiography and Historiographic Critique (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1, 2 semester)Rus
Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses
- 1A. A. Kanaev History of ideas of the Russian right-wing radical opposition in the Post-Soviet space in 1980s–1990s
Conferences
- 2023
От Империи к Союзу: войны, революции, нации, культура. 1905–1922 (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Идиома “гражданской войны” в политической риторике Льва Троцкого
XVI общероссийская научная конференция ВДНХ (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Политическая риторика газеты «Гражданская война» в контексте культуры военизированного насилия 1918 года
- 2022
XV общероссийская научная конференция Выставка достижений научного хозяйства (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Конфликты на суд вождей: риторика справедливости в письмах во власть в годы гражданской войны
XIV международная научная конференция серии "История сталинизма". «Становление советской государственности: выбор пути и его последствия» (Екатеринбург). Presentation: Массовые представления о справедливости в письмах вождям РСФСР, 1918–1922 годы.
- 2021
MAG International Congress “Cultural Transformations”. Presentation: Russian Cults of the Leaders in War and Peace, 1918-1922
- 2020
Идеология: ревитализация концепта в исторических исследованиях». Presentation: Идеология и прагматика в политической коммуникации Российской гражданской войны
Левая оппозиция в СССР в 1930-х гг.: идеи и судьбы. Presentation: К изучению языка документов оппозиционеров-заключенных Верхнеуральского политического изолятора
XIV Общероссийская конференция «Выставка достижений научного хозяйства» (ВДНХ) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Культ “красных” вождей революции: между войной и миром
- 2019
Время Коминтерна (Пятые Рязановские чтения) (Москва). Presentation: Основание Коминтерна в советской политической коммуникации
"Обычный человек в необычное время: к 60-летию со дня рождения С.В. Ярова" (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Язык левых оппозиционеров – заключенных Верхнеуральского политического изолятора
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Meeting ( Сан-Франсиско). Presentation: Making the Cult of Leaders in the Russian Civil War Propaganda Press
Международная конференция "Выставка достижений научного хозяйства" (2019), Европейский университет в г. Санкт-Петербург (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Символическое конструирование “троцкистской” оппозиции: язык, ритуал и миф.
Civil war(s) from the Dniestr River to the Pacific Ocean after 1917: Multi-Level Approaches to a Conflict (Париж). Presentation: Making the Cult of Leaders in the Russian Civil War Propaganda
- 2018
Конструируя "советское"? Политическое сознание, повседневные практики, новые идентичности (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Лекция “Гибридный культ? Случай Льва Троцкого
Годовое собрание Швейцарского академического общества по изучению Восточной Европы (Берн). Presentation: Лев Троцкий: опыты автобиографии в контексте
XII общероссийская конференция "Выставка Достижений Научного Хозяйства" (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Сакральное в дискурсе о вождях революции и Красной армии
- 2017
Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century (Москва). Presentation: Лев Троцкий как (авто)биограф революции
Russia 1917 and the Dissolution of the Old Order in Europe Biographical Itineraries, Individual Experiences, Autobiographical Reflections (Augst). Presentation: Constructing Political Cult of Leon Trotsky During the Russian Revolution and the Civil War
1917/2017 Revolutions, Communist Legacies and Spectres of the Future (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Lev Trotsky: writing auto/biographies, making revolution
История сталинизма: Уроки Октября и практики советской системы. 1920 – 1950 годы (Москва). Presentation: Л.Д. Троцкий, большевизм и границы культа вождя, 1917–1927-е годы
- 2016
Выставка достижений научного хозяйства (ВДНХ-10) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: «Большая душа»: сакрализация революции через культ Троцкого в брошюре Г. Устинова, 1918-1920 годы
- 2015
BASEES Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (Cambridge). Presentation: Friendship, Clientelism and Factionalism among the Left Opposition in the RCP (B) in 1923-1924
- 2014
Друзья, товарищи и чиновники: политические практики дружбы, фракционности и партийности в предсталинском СССР (Пермь). Presentation: Дружба, клиентелизм и фракционность Левой оппозиции в РКП(б) в 1923-1924 годы
Выставка достижений научного хозяйства - 8 (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Партийный парламентаризм: оппозиция и демократические практики во внутрипартийной борьбе 1923-1924 гг.
Забота: между приватным и публичным. (Казань). Presentation: Политика заботы и границы патронажа в раннесоветские годы: случай Л. Д. Троцкого.
- 2013
The 45th ASEEES Annual Convention (Boston) 2013 (Бостон). Presentation: Politics of Care and the Limits of Early Soviet Patronage: Leon Trotsky's Case
Проекты модерности: конструируя «советское» в европейской перспективе. (Пермь). Presentation: Коммунист и конфликт: к антропологии политической борьбы в РКП(б) в 1923-1924 гг.
XXXIX Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution (Norwich). Presentation: “Not by ‘Politics’ Alone Does Man Thrive”: Leon Trotskii between Culture and Political Struggle in 1923-1924.
- 2012
Culture, Society and Memory: the Challenges of Historical and Sociological Research on Russia, Germany and the US (Bielefeld). Presentation: Lev Trotskii and the Discussion about «novyi byt» in the Context of Inner-Party Struggle, 1923-1924
Grants
Selected
2020-2024— Project "Processes of Legitimisation of Violence: Cultures of Conflict in Russia and Civil War Escalation" (Grant from the Russian Science Foundation, No 20-18-00369)
2016–2017 — Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists.
More Than Just Studies: American Students on Their January Term in Russia
From January 3 to 20, 23 students from three American universities took part in a special winter programme held for the third time at HSE University – St Petersburg. We asked them many questions, including what they thought about Russia before coming here, what they would take back home, and one of the eternal questions – Moscow or St Petersburg?