An article by Alexei Miller, a professor in the Department of History, and Alexander Kamentsev, a graduate student in the same department, has appeared in the journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies. The article is titled "The Cossacks of Southern Russia in 21st-Century Memory Politics".

On May 27 at the History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan, Boris Kolonitsky will give a lecture dedicated to the memory of the First World War in Russia and other post-Soviet countries.

The Empire's End kicks off a new season of podcast “History is Just Beginning”. In the new cycle, historians continue to argue about the viability of the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Historians Vladimir Lapin and Amiran Urushadze speak about amazing St. Petersburg, its smells and sounds. 

Historians Amiran Urushadze and Vladimir Lapin discuss the cult and the myths that surround the names of the two admirals.

Boris Kolonitsky Professor of the Faculty of History, was featured as a guest on Mikhail Shvydkov's program on the TV channel "Culture".

A new episode of the Podcast "History Is Just Beginning" is on the air. This time the theme is "The Caucasian War: History and Memory".  This war became the longest military confrontation in the history of the Russian Empire. Today it is well remembered in the North Caucasus and hardly remembered at all in the rest of Russia.  Historians Amiran Urushadze and Vladimir Lapin discuss why the Russian Empire fought for the Caucasus for so long and how the mountain people managed to remain undefeated.

Historians Amiran Urushadze and Yulia Safronova discuss how the tsar-liberator is remembered — from the moment of regicide to the present.

As part of EUSP’s history podcasts, a new cycle dedicated to Alexander II has begun. The previous cycle was devoted to the topic of fornication in Russia. Those podcasts can be found here.

The third and final episode of our series investigating fornication cases in 18th century Russia with Amiran Urushadze and Pavel Romanov.

We continue the conversation about fornication in Russia in the 18th century with historians Amiran Urushadze and Pavel Romanov in the podcast "History is just beginning".

The European University launches a popular science series, "History is just beginning", where we talk to scholars who are discovering the past by studying what is left of it. The focus of the first episode is Christian marital morality, church interrogation methods and punishment for extramarital sex in pre-Petrine Russia. Investigations into fornication cases in Russia in the 18th century are discussed by Associate Professor of the Faculty of History Amiran Urushadze and a graduate student of the same faculty, Pavel Romanov.

In 2022, the History Department of the European University at Saint Petersburg will call the 16th Annual Conference “Constructing the ‘Soviet’?” for young scholars. This year our point of departure will be a category of the “global socialist ecumene”, which we apply to the Soviet and other socialist projects history.

European University at Saint-Petersburg, November 1–2, 2021*.

The EUSP intern (Department of History, 2005–2006) Brandon M. Schechter, now a fellow at New York University in Shanghai and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, received the Paul Birdsall Prize for his book "Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects."

On November 27 at 6 p.m. Nari Shelekpayev, an assistant professor of history at th

Russia's regions and republics with Muslim majorities (e.g. Tatarstan/Volga region; Daghestan/North Caucasus),  have traditionally been studied in isolation from each other, with the result that also the particular practices and concepts of Islam have been understood as "national". In recent years scholars and activists have established overarching cupola constructions like "Russian Islam", "Traditionalism" or "Islamic Eurasianism".

Professor Jay Winter (Yale University, USA) will give two lectures in the EUSP in September. The first one: «The Degeneration of War, 1917-1923»Place: EUSP, room 430Time: 6:30 PM, September 10. The second one: «Silence as a language of memory»Place: EUSP, room 430Time: 6:30 PM, September 12.  

The history of the procuracy illustrates that Stalinist justice was more than orchestrating show trials. Ordinary state prosecutors very rarely dealt with political enemies. Their main task was to investigate and prosecute millions of non-political offenses, such as theft, murder, or rape. At the same time, they bore responsibility to enforce legal norms within the state apparatus. All branches of government, including police work, were subject to prosecutors’ supervision. The procuracy not only was a crucial instrument for controlling the Soviet populace.

Confronted in the second half on the eighteenth century with unemployment and food crises and with the multiplication of vagrants and beggars, the government turned to civil society to find solutions.