Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

My main research interests are in the areas of Russian Foreign Policy - particularly Russia-EU relations; Russian nationalism and national identity, the Russian Revolution and early development of the Soviet state. I have published a range of articles and book chapters on Russian labour history, Russia and the West, the Russian media, Russia and NATO. My most recent publications have centred on Russia-EU relations and the EU, Russia and cooperation in the Black Sea area. I regularly contribute reviews to a wide range of journals on the above topics and am an editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies.

Qualifications

• MA (Hons), Modern Russian Studies, St.Andrews University
• Ph.D Political Science, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham 

Research Clusters

• Social and Cultural History
• Security Studies

Discipline Areas

• Area Studies
• International Relations
• Politics and Public Administration

Research CV

Current Research Projects

• Articles on Russia-EU relations and clash of new neighbourhoods in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea.
• Work as part of the BASEES/UACES EU-Russia research network.
• Historical Dictionary of the Russian Revolution
• Workers’ control, bureaucratisation and the development of the Soviet state article

Journal Articles

• 2010, ‘The Factory Committees and the Struggle over the Fate of the 1917 Russian Revolution’, Historical Materialism, Vol.18, No.3, pp.180-205.
• 2009, 'Russia and NATO: The need for a new security relationship'. Special Report: NATO at Sixty. International Affairs Forum, Spring, Center for International Relations, Arlington US, pp.33-36.
• 2008 'Russia and the EU: Clash of New Neighbourhoods' in Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 189-202(14)
• 2005 'Russia and the EU: A Pragmatic and Contradictory Relationship' in Perspectives on Europe Politics and Society, Vol.6, No.3, pp.435-461
• 2002 'Nationalism and the National Question in the Soviet Union: Problems of  Interpretation' in History Teaching Review Yearbook . Vol.16,  pp 15-21.
• 1999 ' NATO and the Russian Federation: The Founding Act on Mutual Relations' (with F.Carr) in The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol.15, pp.88-110.
• 1996 ‘Privkus kommertsii: s dushkom ili bez? Dialog s rubezhnym kollegoi' (with Dmitrii Strovksii in Faks: Zhurnal ural'skikh zhurnalistov , No.4, pp.28-32.
• 1991 'Industrial Relations and the Economic Crisis of 1917' in Revolutionary Russia , vol.4, No.2,Dec., pp.184-209. 
• 1989 'Rethinking the Russian Revolution' in European History Quarterly , vol.19,No.1,January, pp.105‑111.
• 1988 'Perestroika and Soviet History : A First Glimpse' in Revolutionary Russia , vol.2.

Book Chapters

• 2007 'Region Building in the wider Black Sea area: the role of the EU and NATO' with Carr, F. in Volten, P. & Tashev, B. (eds) Establishing Security and Stability in the Wider Black Sea Area, International Politics and the New, Emerging Democracies, IOS Press, Amsterdam, ISBN 978-1-58603-765-9, July.
• 2006 'Russia and the West: The New Pragmatism' in F.Carr and A Massey (ed.) Public Policy and the Agendas of the New Europe, Edward Elgar. 
• 1999 NATO i problemy rossiiskoi bezopasnosti: k postanovke problemy' in L.E.Strovksii ed. Ekonomicheskaya kul'tura v usloviyakh razvitiya rynochnoi ekonomiki: otechestvennaya praktika i opyt mezhdunarodnogo otrudnichestva, UGTU, pp. 109-117
• 1998 'Russia in the New Europe' in F.Carr (ed.) Europe: The Cold Divide , Macmillan: London, pp.105-136, ISBN 0-312-21024-8
• 1998 'Novaya rossiya, ee rol' i mesto v obnovlennoi evrope' in L.E.Strovksy, S.K. Kazantsev, A.V.Shibin and V.I.Shikhov (eds.), Ekonomicheskaya kul'tura v usloviyakh razvitiya rynochnoi ekonomiki: otechestvennaya praktika i opyt mezhdunarodnogo sotrudnichestva , UGTU, Ekaterinburg, pp. 186-215, ISBN 5-230-06517-6
• 1997 'Television in the Russian Federation' in J.Coleman and B.Rollet (eds.), Television in Europe, London, Intellect Books, pp.111-123, ISBN 1- 871516-92-7
• 1996 'From Soviet to Russian Identity: The Origins of Contemporary Russian Nationalism and National Identity' in B.Jenkins and S. Sofos (eds.), Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe , London: Routledge, pp.223-250.

Other Publications

• 2005 'European Security after Communism' editorial in Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol 13, No.1, pp.1-4
• 1995  Entries on A.Z.Gol'tsmann (p.361), Yu.Kh.Lutovinov (p.591), S.P. Medvedev (pp.638-39),V.I.Polonskii (pp.768-69), Ya.E.Rudzutak (pp.824-25),V.V.Schmidt pp.861- 62),A.G.Shlyapnikov (pp.824-5), N.M.Shvernik (pp.890-91), N.A.Skrypnik (pp.902-4), G.D.Veinberg (pp.1001-2), M.N.Zhivotov (p.1058) in T.Lane (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of European Labour Leaders, Greenwood Press, London.
• 1994 'Nation and Identity after Communism', editorial in Journal of Area Studies , No.4, also editor of the issue
• 1993 'Antagonism and Identity in Yugoslavia', editorial in Journal of Area Studies , No.3, also editor of the issue.

Papers Given

• "Russia and the EU: Tensions of a Partnership or Fundamental Contradictions?" at a British International Studies Association Russian and Eurasian Working Group "Expert Conference" - "Twenty Years On: The Former Soviet Union, Security Challenges in the Post-Cold War World" held at King's College London on 24th June.
   

Selected Reviews

• 2006 'Trotsky by Ian D. Thatcher - Review in the English Historical review, Vol CXXI, No.491, pp.565-67
• 2005 "Russia in Search of Itself" by James Billington, John Hopkins University Press, 2004, in Nations and Nationalism , Vol.11, No.3
• 2003 "To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria. 1898-1941" by David Wolff, Stanford: Standford University Press, 1999, in Urban History, Vol.30, Part 1, May, pp.154-155.
• 2003 "Ethnic and National Issues in Russia and Eastern European History: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw. John Morison (ed.) London: Macmillan, 2000" in The English Historical Review , Vol.CXVIII, No.475, February, pp.262-263.
• 2000 "Women workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From Protection to Equality" by Melanie Ilic in The Economic History Review . 53:3 August, pp.592-3.
• 1998 "Die Partei der Linken Sozial-Revolutionare in der Russischen Revolution von 1917/18. Cologne: Bohulau Verlag, 1994 by Lutz Hafner in The Russian Review , Vol. 57, No.3, pp. 479-480.
• 1998 "One more mirror has been broken: suppression of freedom of expression and media freedom in Belarus" by Article 19 in association with Belarus League for Human Rights. Lonodn and Minsk, 1997 in Democratization, Vol. 5, No.4 Winter, pp. 222-3.
• 1998 "Reinterpreting Russia: An Annotated Bibliography of Books on Russia, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, 1991-1996 by Steven Boillard in Journal of European Area Studies , Vol. 6 No.1.
• 1995 "The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union 1913-1945" R.W.Davies, M. Harrison and S.G.Wheatcroft. Cambridge University Press, 1994 in Labour History Review , Vol.60. No 2, Autumn, pp.146-8.
• 1995 "Labor in the Russian Revolution: Factory Committees and Trade Unions, 1917-1918" by Gennady Shkliarevksy.. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. in The Russian Review , Vol.54, No.3, July pp.470-471
• 1995 "Politics in Eastern Europe 1945-1992" by George Schopflin, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1993, in Journal of Area Studies , No.6, pp.239-241.
• 1994 "The Stalin Phenomenon" by G.Boffa (Cornell University Press, 1992) in History , vol.79. No.256, p.370
• 1993 "Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917" by E.R. Frankel, J.Frankel and B. Knei Paz (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1992, in History , vol.78. No.254, pp.536-
• 1993 "Stakhanovism and the politics of productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941" by L.H.Siegelbaum. Cambridge University Press, 1988, paperback 1990, in Labour History Review, Vol.58, No.1, Spring, pp.98-9
• 1986 "The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime" and "The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power" by D. Mandel, Macmillan, 1984, in Sbornik, No.12.
• 1985 "Social democracy and the Legal Labour Movement, 1906-1914" by G. Swain, Macmillan, 1983, in Soviet Studies , vol.37, no.4, pp.567-9.
• 1981 "The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power" by G. Konrad and I. Zelenyi, Harvester Press,1979, in Journal of Area Studies , no.3, pp.39-41.