Leonid Gorizontov
- Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of History
- Leonid Gorizontov has been at HSE University since 2011.
Education and Degrees
- 2000
Doctor of Sciences* in World History
Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences - 1984
Degree in History
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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
I. Sorokin, Late Imperial Russian State and Society in the Estimates of Nicholas II' Informant A.A. Klopov. Faculty of Humanities, 2019
Y. Dzyubinskiy, Education and Upbringing of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich's Children: Strategies and Results (1850-1870s). Faculty of Humanities, 2018
E. Kochetkova, Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the mid-1870s to 1880s in the Kistyakovsky’s Diaries. Faculty of Humanities, 2018
V. Komarov, The Policy of the Russian Empire Towards Refugees During the First World War: Plans and Their Implementation. Faculty of Humanities, 2018
E. Kochetkova, Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the mid-1870s to 1880s in the Kistyakovsky’s Diaries. Faculty of Humanities, 2017
P. Novikov, Formation of the Historical Narrative on 1990-s Russia. Faculty of Humanities, 2017
M. Veryutin, Dynamics of Presentations About the World Leadership of the USA in the End of the 20th – Beginning of the 21st Centuries (based on the material of US Presidents' Speeches). Faculty of Humanities, 2016
P. Litvyakova, Orel region in the mental geography in post-reform Russia. Faculty of History, 2014
A. Chemisova, Siberian Regionalism in the Period of Revolutions, 1905 - 1920: the Dynamic of the Programme’s Aims. Faculty of History, 2014
G. Maly'x, Victor von Wahl’s Administrative Activity in the Western Areas of the Russian Empire (1860-1900). Faculty of History, 2014
M. Glazacheva, Normative history of Belorussia and its critique at the turn of the twentieth century.. Faculty of History, 2014
- Master
V. Komarov, The Activities of the Moscow Provincial Office for the Affairs of Public Organizations and Their Assessment by Contemporaries (1906-1917). Faculty of Humanities, 2020
I. Dziubinskii, The Practices of Upbringing and Education of Representatives of the Ruling Family in the Russian Empire and the French Empire in 1850 to Early 1880. Faculty of Humanities, 2020
E. Komarova, Interpretations of the «Red Scare» by American Scholars in the Second Half of the XXth and Early XXIth Centuries. Faculty of Humanities, 2018
M. Oberiukhtina, The Image of the Real Socialism of the 1960s-1970s in the Memoirs of the Party Functionaries on the Oblast Level. Faculty of Humanities, 2016
A. Chemisova, Nobility of the Smolensk Province between the Late 18th and the Middle 19th Centuries according to Ego-documents (Memoirs and Diaries). Faculty of Humanities, 2016
Ya. Radaeva, Ethnic and political history of the South Slavs of the XX century in the coverage of contemporary Serbian and Croatian textbooks for secondary schools. Institute of Education, 2014
Courses (2020/2021)
- Comparative History of Empires in Modern and Contemporary Times (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Contemporary historiography (Postgraduate course’s programme; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Nations and Nationalism (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Eastern Europe in XIX - XX Сenturies: Search for the Development Path" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2019/2020)
- Comparative History of Empires in Modern and Contemporary Times (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Nations and Nationalism (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Eastern Europe in XIX - XX Сenturies: Search for the Development Path" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2018/2019)
- Comparative History of Empires in Modern and Contemporary Times (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Eastern Europe in XIX - XX Сenturies: Search for the Development Path" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2015/2016)
- Comparative History of Empires in Modern and Contemporary Times (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
- Comparative History of Empires in Modern and Contemporary Times (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Nations and Nationalism (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Eastern Europe in XIX - XX Сenturies: Search for the Development Path" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Editorial board membership
2018: Member of the Editorial Board, Kwartalnik historii nauki i techniki - Kwartal'nyi zhurnal istorii nauki i tekhniki - (Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki. Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology).
Conferences
- 2018Самодержавие, бюрократия и реформы Александра II (Москва). Presentation: Сельскохозяйственные общества и подготовка крестьянских реформ в Российском империи во второй половине 50-х и начале 60-х гг. XIX в.
- Государственная независимость Польши в контексте российско-польских отношений 1914-1921 гг. (Москва). Presentation: Накануне встречи в независимой Польше: коммуникация поляков в Российской империи в годы Первой мировой войны. (По воспоминаниям Р. Дыбоского)
- XVI Международный съезд славистов (Белград). Presentation: Региональная терминология в российской славистике последнего столетия
- Исторический нарратив: прошлое, настоящее, будущее (Москва). Presentation: История XIX века в мемуарном наследии Дмитрия Милютина
- Год 1918 – конец старой и рождение новой Европы. Возрожденное Польское государство и Советская Россия (Варшава). Presentation: Русско-польские отношения в 1918 г. в мемуаристике межвоенного периода
- 2017Тадеуш Костюшко в кругу современников и восприятии потомков (Москва). Presentation: Память о Т. Костюшко в контексте русско-польских отношений
- 2015Россия в польской историографии, Польша в российской историографии (Москва). Presentation: Русско-польская имагология как направление исследований и научного сотрудничества
- 2013На пути к демократии - Россия и Польша в конце XX столетия (Москва). Presentation: СССР и Польша 1980-х гг. в журнале "Культура": политическая хроника М.Я. Геллера
- Будущее христианства в Европе: роль Церквей и народов Польши и России (Варшава). Presentation: История православно-католических и российско-польских взаимоотношений в контексте диалога, поиска правды и взаимопонимания (XIX век)
- Польское Январское восстание 1863 года и исторические судьбы России и Польши (Москва). Presentation: Январское восстание в различных нарративах истории России
- Проблемы российско-польской истории и культурный диалог (Новосибирск). Presentation: Познавательный потенциал изучения российско-польской истории XIX-XX вв.
- Польша, Россия и Европа в судьбе историка. Памяти Александра Гейштора (1916-1999) (Москва). Presentation: Московские корни А. Гейштора
Publications6
- Preprint Gorizontov L. The writers as popularizers of the knowledge about the Slavic peoples. The case of multi-volume "Picturesque Russia" in the last quarter of the XIXth century / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2016. No. 129.
- Article Leonid Gorizontov. Anatolii Remnev and the Regions of the Russian Empire // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2015. Vol. 16. No. 4. P. 901-916.
- Chapter Leonid Gorizontow. Aleksander Hercen jako historyk współczesności: wątki polskie, in: Myślą i słowem. Polsko-rosyjski dyskurs ideowy XIX wieku. Warsz. : Centrum Polsko-Rosyjskiego Dialogu i Porozumienia, 2014. P. 65-82.
- Article Gorizontov L. Russian-Polish imagology as an area of research and scientific cooperation. A Historiographical Essay // Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki. Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology. 2014. No. 4. P. 143-152.
- Chapter Gorizontov L. East European Studies on Harvard University during the “Cold War” Era (based upon memoirs by M.K.Dziewanowski), in: East and West. History and Contemporary State of Eastern Studies: conference, Centre for East European studies, University of Warsaw, October 26-28, 2008. Варшава : Studium Europy Wschod., Uniw. warszawski, 2012. P. 113-121.
- Article Gorizontov L. The Crimean War as a Test of Russia’s Imperial Durability / Пер. с рус. // Russian Studies in History. 2012. Vol. 51. No. 1: The Russian Empire and the Crimean War: Conceptualizing Experience and Exploring New Approaches. P. 65-94.
Russian-Polish School of Young Historians
An international school of young historians, ‘Russian – Polish Entangled History: Scientific Reconstruction and Reflection in the Collective Memory’, took place in April at the School of History (HSE Moscow). Undergraduate and master’s students from HSE and the University of Warsaw took place in the event. Alexander Kamensky, Andrey Iserov, Dariusz Klechowski, Director of the Polish Cultural Centre in Moscow, and Leonid Gorizontov, who lead the organization of the Russian-Polish meeting.
