Oleg V. Budnitskii
- Director:The International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences
- Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of History
- Tenured Professor (2014)
- Oleg V. Budnitskii has been at HSE since 2010.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
- 2012Member of the Academy of Europe
- 1998
Doctor of Sciences* in National History
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Thesis Title: Terrorism in the Russian revolutionary movement: ideology, ethics, psychology (second half of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries - 1997Associate Professor
- 1989
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Historiography, Source Study and Methods of Historical Research
USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Soviet History - 1988
Postgraduate programme in Historiography
USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Soviet History - 1976
Diploma in History
Rostov State Teacher Training Institute, History
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.
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Student Term / Thesis Papers
- Bachelor
A. Molianova «Medical Experiments in Nazi Concentration Camps: Problems of Studies». Faculty of Humanities, 2016
D. Uryadova «Советский Союз в жизни и творчестве Александра Верта». Faculty of Humanities, 2015
N. Polkovnikova «Civil population of the USSR during the Second World War: life under occupation (based on the materials of Harvard Interview Project on the Soviet Social System)». Faculty of History, 2014
A. Starkov «Russian Military Emigration in Nazi Germany during the World War II on the basis of A.A. von Lampe's diaries (1939 — 1943)». Faculty of History, 2014
I. Maxalova «History of the Napoleonic wars in the propaganda of the main belligerent powers during the Second World War.». Faculty of History, 2014
Yu. Gerasimova «The ‘Internal enemy’: protest moods in Moscow and Leningrad and the activities of NKVD, 1941-1942». Faculty of History, 2014
K. Majvand «The Economy of the Gulag in the wartime». Faculty of History, 2014
- Master
O. Xoxryakova «The Red Army soldiers in the Europe: social and cultural aspects (1944-1945)». Faculty of History, 2014
Editorial board membership
2012: Member of the Editorial Board, Российская история.
2010: Member of the Editorial Board, East European Jewish Affairs.
2001: Member of the Editorial Board, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.
Conferences
- 2014Международная научная конференция «Россия в Первой мировой войне» (Москва). Presentation: Россия в мировых войнах ХХ века: опыт сравнительного анализа
- "Война и мир": Первая мировая война и ее влияние на развитие общественного порядка и демократии (Москва). Presentation: Россия в мировых войнах ХХ века: опыт сравнительного анализа
- Россия и США в мировых войнах: опыт взаимодействия в условиях глобальных кризисов (Москва). Presentation: Взаимодействие России и США в мировых войнах ХХ века: опыт сравнительного анализа
- Псевдонимы русской эмиграции в Европе (1917–1945) (Бохум). Presentation: В поисках авторов: о некоторых псевдонимах в коллаборационистской печати
- Наследие Василия Гроссмана: самобытность классика ХХ века (Москва). Presentation: Записные книжки Василия Гроссмана как источник по истории Второй мировой войны
- 2013European Congress ‘Europe: Crisis and Renewal’ (Cambridge). Presentation: Jewish Women in the Red Army, 1941-45
- What Have we Learned From the Soviet Archives? (Упсала). Presentation: War Diaries and Memoirs as a Source of the Social History of the Stalin Period
- What was Communism? (Берлин). Presentation: The fascination of communism – Mass movement or a splinter group seizing power?
- Оккупация и коллаборационизм в Европе, 1939-1945 (Москва). Presentation: Советское общество накануне немецкой оккупации: Идеологические и социальные предпосылки коллаборационизма
Память о Холокосте в современной Европе: Общее и разделяющее (Москва). Presentation: Антисемитизм в СССР во время Второй мировой войны
Publications
Books1
Articles and book chapters7
- Article Nathans B., Levitt Kohn R., Meir N., Budnitskii O. V., Dekel-Chen J. Torahs, Tanks, and Tech: Moscow's Jewish Museum // East European Jewish Affairs. 2015 doi (in print)
- Chapter Budnitskii O. V. Berlin debates: the Jews and the Russian Revolution, in: Jewish Thought, Utopia, and Revolution Issue 274. NY : Rodopi B.V., 2014. Ch. 8. P. 111-126, 194-196.
- Chapter Budnitskii O. V. Jews at War: Diaries from the Front, in: Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2014. Ch. 3. P. 57-84.
- Article Oleg Budnitskii. The Great Patriotic War and Soviet Society: Defeatism, 1941-42 // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2014. Vol. 15. No. 4. P. 767-798.
- Chapter Budnitskii O. V. Shots in the Back: On the Origin of the Anti-Jewish Pogroms of 1918-1921, in: Jews in the East European Borderlands. Essays in Honor of John D. Klier / Ed. by E. M. Avrutin, H. Murav. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012. P. 187-201.
- Chapter Budnitskii O. V. The Intelligentsia Meets the Enemy: Educated Soviet Officers in Defeated Germany, 1945, in: Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. Ch. 9. P. 176-227.
- Article Budnitskii O. V. The Jews and Revolution: Russian Perspectives, 1881-1918 // East European Jewish Affairs. 2008. Vol. 38. No. 3. P. 321-334.
Fellowships
Fellowships:
- Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, May 2013
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Ina Levine Senior Invitational Scholar, September 2009-May 2010
- Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Skirball Fellow, January-June 2002
- Stanford University, September 1999 - July 2000
- Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Sepetember 1994-May 1995
Soviet Justice During the War Years
The Center’s director, Oleg Budnitskii, spoke about the particularities of Soviet justice during the period of the Great Patriotic War in a recent broadcast from the radio station the Echo of Moscow.
Human Rights and Empire
We Are Pleased to Announce the Publication of the Book The Rights of the Individual and Empire, with an Introduction and Commentary by Oleg Budnitskii.
Is a Scholarly History of the Second World War Possible?
Oleg Budnitskii, the director of the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, gave a presentation at Polit.ru’s ProScience Theatre.
'Just because a Document Is in the Archives, One Should not Assume that It Contains the Truth'
Higher School of Economics hosted the conference Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Directions in World War II Research to mark the fifth anniversary of the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences.
Extramural School ‘Forced Labour during WWII: Analysis of Documents and Exchange of International Experiences’
From October 1 – 7th, 2015, HSE students and graduates in history participated in an extramural school headed by Professor Oleg Budnitsky on ‘Forced Labour during WWII: Analysis of Documents and International Exchange of Experience’ in Berlin, Germany.
Internship at the Holocaust Museum in Washington
HSE history students Elena Krivtsova and Alexandra Maslova shared their impressions of an internship they completed at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, USA, which was organized by the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences.
A People’s History of War
HSE has hosted the international academic conference ‘Europe, 1945: Liberation, Occupation, Retribution,’ during which historians, sociologists, and culturologists from various countries discussed the social, economic, military, political, and cultural phenomena caused by World War II. In an interview with the HSE News Service, the Director of HSE’s International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Oleg Budnitskii, discusses the conference, its organizers, and its guests, and also talks about why it is important to study the human dimension of war.
Lecture by Professor Budnitskii at European University Institute
On April 1, 2015 Oleg Budnitskii, Professor at the School of History and HSE Honorary Professor delivered a lecture on ‘Women in the Red Army, 1941–45’ at the colloquium of the History Department of the European University Institute (Florence).
‘As long as we think about the Middle Ages as a dark time, we will remain dark ourselves’
Every era builds its own version of the Middle Ages, and the modern age is no exception. Oleg Voskoboynikov, the youngest full professor at the Higher School of Economics, talks about the reason for the popularity of metaphors that refer to that era, why the ‘Suffering Middle Ages’ group on VKontakte [Russia’s largest social media site — Ed.] is not the same thing as medieval studies and how the desire to be different from everyone else can lead a student to study the Middle Ages.
Humanities at HSE: One Faculty, Different Programmes, More Opportunities
The united Faculty of Humanities has been launched and recently held an open day at HSE. For those who missed the event we share the most important information about the faculty.
12 HSE Professors Awarded Tenure
On September 26 twelve HSE faculty members were promoted to Tenured Professors.
