Alexander Reznik
- Director: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Centre for Historical Research
- Associate Professor: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Alexander Reznik has been at HSE University since 2017.
- Language Proficiency
- English
- Contacts
- Phone:
+7 (812) 786-92-49
61417 - Address: St. Petersburg, 119-121 Nabereshnaya Kanala Griboedova , room 123
- SPIN-RSCI: 3335-8816
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9436-984X
- ResearcherID: M-9753-2015
- Scopus AuthorID: 57209982424
- Google Scholar
- Office hours
- please contact by email
- Supervisor
- A. A. Selin
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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 field of study History; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Methodology of Historical Reseach and Contemporary Historiography (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar - 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Soviet Project in a Global Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 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 field of study History; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Mentor's Seminar "History" (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Methodology of Historical Reseach and Contemporary Historiography (Postgraduate course field of study Postgraduate Studies; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- New Political History of the Russian Revolution, 1917-1922 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Soviet Project in a Global Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- History of Soviet Society (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Methodology of Historical Reseach and Contemporary Historiography (Postgraduate course field of study Postgraduate Studies; 1 year, 1, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar - 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Russia in the Period of Revolution and Civil War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- 20th-Century Personality Cults (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Historiography of Russian Empire and Soviet society (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Historiography of Russian Empire and Soviet society (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Methodology of Historical Reseach and Contemporary Historiography (Postgraduate course field of study Historical Studies and Archeology; 1 year, 1, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar - 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Russia in the Period of Revolution and Civil War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 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 field of study Political Science; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Political Projects of XX cent. (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Reseach Seminar 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Russia in the Period of Revolution and Civil War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Topics in Current Historiography and Historiographic Critique (Postgraduate course field of study Historical Studies and Archeology; 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?