Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

The study of Russian, Eurasian, and eastern European history at CEU focuses on the seventeenth through twenty-first centuries. Faculty members employ an array of approaches, including intellectual, social, cultural, and diplomatic history, plus the history of science. Our geographic expertise includes the Habsburg borderlands, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, and Central Asia. We welcome a range of M.A. and Ph.D. thesis topics to complement our faculty research in topics as varied as early modern Russian-Ottoman diplomacy, ninteenth-century patent law, Soviet physics, World War II and humor, Perestroika, and Soviet hippies.

Faculty
Students
Courses
Publications
Activities

Anastasia Felcher (Visiting)

Cultural History of Borderlands
Minority Histories in Plural Societies
Memory and Heritage of Violence
Archiving the Cold War and Post-Socialist Transition

Charles Shaw

Cold War Studies
Comparative Empires
Cultural History and Cultural Studies
Nationalism Studies

Constantin Iordachi

Fascism and Totalitarianism
Nation and Nationalism
Political History
Southeastern Europe/Balkans

Jan Hennings

Early Modern Europe
Muscovy and Imperial Russia
History of Diplomacy and International Relations
Russian-Ottoman Relations
Travel Literature and Cultural Encounters

Juliane Fürst

Soviet Social and Cultural History
Subcultures, Non-Conformism, Dissent
The Long Perestroika/Perebudova

Karl Hall

Science and Russian Orthodoxy
Intellectual Property and Patenting in Central and Eastern Europe
Post-1945 Transformations of East European Scientific Institutions
Western Scientists as Anthropologists and Critics of the Soviet Experiment

Marsha Siefert (Emirata)

Cinema, Diplomacy, and Cold War Culture
Media History, Music History, and Technology
Labor, Information, Communication, and Infrastructure

Aliaksandr Bystryk

History of Nationalism
Mass Media and Nationalism
History of Belarus

Boris Fonarkov

Diplomatic History
Intercultural Encounter & Differentiation/Othering
Imperialism in Eurasia
Sino-Russian & Sino-European Relations

Daniela Munteanu

History of Human Sciences
New Imperial History
History of Knowledge
History of Self

Emilia Castelao

Diplomatic History
Cultural History
History of Sport

Gulrano Ataeva

Labour History
Soviet Central Asia
The interplay of Muslim backgrounds with Soviet secular identities

Julia Boechat Machado

History of the Book
Tamizdat Publishing
Alternative Publishing Practices

MA Students in Russian Empire and Soviet Union

As well as PhDs, our MA students study and publish in their chosen research fields. Click on the image above for a list of MA students working in the field of Russian and Soviet History.