Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of World War II and Soviet Society
Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies in Moscow, Russia, invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in the field of history of World War II and Soviet society, history of Stalinism, as well as other topics dealing with Soviet and post-Soviet history and culture more broadly.
‘The Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past’
This summer, the HSE Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences was reorganized to become the HSE Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Oleg Budnitskii, Doctor of Historical Sciences, head of the Centre and director of the Institute, talked to the HSE News Service about the new division.
The new book "Другая Россия: Исследования по истории русской эмиграции" by Oleg Budnitskii is about to appeared
"Drugaja Rossija: Issledovanija po istorii russkoj jemigracii"
"The Soviet narrative of the Warsaw ghetto uprising"
a new article by Gennady Estraikh has been published in the journal "Acta Poloniae Historica" (123, 2021)
Lost in Recalculation: How to Estimate the Scale of the Soviet Economy and Its Rate of Growth
Researchers trying to compare economic data of the USSR and capitalist countries face questions of the comprehensiveness, accessibility, and reliability of data on Soviet economic production and growth. At an online seminar hosted by the HSE University International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences, Assistant Professor Ilya Voskoboynikov (Faculty of Economic Sciences, HSE University) presented an overview of available approaches to studying the absolute size of the Soviet economy and its growth rates.
The HSE Look December Issue
The fifth issue of 2020 presents an interview on the international postdoc programme and introduces new postdocs.
New Postdoctoral Fellows Join HSE University
Every autumn, HSE University welcomes new postdocs, and this year is no exception. In its December issue, university bulletin the HSE Look introduces some of the new postdocs who have already started their fellowships.
Studying Cultural History of Ethnic Minorities in the USSR
Isabelle R. Kaplan, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, talks about her research on non-Slavic minorities in the Soviet Union in an interview to the HSE Look.