Seth Bernstein
- Affiliated Researcher:Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies / Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences
- Seth Bernstein has been at HSE University since 2013.
Education and Degrees
- 2013
PhD in History of Civic Movements and Political Parties
University of Toronto - 2005
BA in History
Kenyon College
Courses (2019/2020)
- Modern and Contemporary Social History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- The History of the Holocaust (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2018/2019)
- Modern and Postmodern Social History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- The History of the Holocaust (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1 module)Eng
- The Laboratory of the Historian: Professional Convention and Practices 1 (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
Publications15
- Article Бернстейн С. "В Лейпциге, похоже, была большая концентрация войск". Сообщения осведомителей в американский Корпус контрразведки о советской оккупации Германии в Лейпциге, 1946-1947 гг. / Перев.: Е. Ю. Стовба // Исторический архив. 2019. № 3. С. 64-76.
- Article Bernstein S., Makhalova I. Aggregate Treason: A Quantitative Analysis of Collaborator Trials in Soviet Ukraine and Crimea // The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 2019. Vol. 46. No. 1. P. 30-54. doi
- Article Bernstein S. Ambiguous Homecoming: Retribution, Exploitation and Social Tensions During Repatriation to the USSR, 1944–1946 // Past and Present. 2019. Vol. 242. No. 1. P. 193-226. doi
- Book Novikova L. An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative: The White Movement and the Civil War in the Russian North / Пер. с рус.: S. Bernstein. University of Wisconsin Press, 2018.
- Book Бернстейн С. Воспитанные при Сталине. Комсомольцы и защита социализма / Пер. с англ. РОССПЭН, 2018.
- Article Bernstein S. Burying the Alliance: Interment, Repatriation and the Politics of the Sacred in Occupied Germany // Journal of Contemporary History. 2017. Vol. 52. No. 3. P. 710-730. doi
- Book Bernstein S. Raised under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2017.
- Book Vatlin A. Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin’s Secret Police / Transl.: S. Bernstein.; Ed. by S. Bernstein. University of Wisconsin Press, 2016.
- Article Bernstein S. Remembering War, Remaining Soviet: Digital Commemoration of World War II in Putin’s Russia // Memory Studies. 2016. Vol. 9. No. 4. P. 422-436.
- Article Bernstein S. Rural Russia on the Edges of Authority: Bezvlastie in Wartime Riazan, November-December 1941 // Slavic Review. 2016. Vol. 75. No. 3. P. 560-582. doi
- Article Bernstein S. Class Dismissed? New Elites and Old Enemies among the “Best” Socialist Youth in the Komsomol, 1934–41 // Russian Review. 2015. No. 1. P. 97-116.
- Article Bernstein S. Wartime Filmmaking on the Margins: Soiuzdetfilm in Evacuation in Stalinabad, 1941-43 // Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. 2015. Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 24-39.
- Article Bernstein S., Cherny R. Searching for the Soviet Dream: Prosperity and Disillusionment on the Soviet Seattle Agricultural Commune, 1922-1927 // Agricultural History. 2014. Vol. 88. No. 1. P. 22-44.
- Article Bernstein S. Transliterating non-ASCII characters with Python // Programming Historian. 2013
- Article Bernstein S. Valedictorians of the Soviet School: Valedictorians of the Soviet School: Professionalization and the Impact of War in Soviet Chess // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2012. Vol. 12. No. 2. P. 395-418.
Employment history
Assistant Professor of Russian History, University of Florida, 2020-present.
Assistant Professor of History, Higher School of Economics, 2016-2019.
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Higher School of Economics, 2013-2016.
Instructor, Department of History, University of Toronto, 2012-13.
The HSE Look March Issue
The first issue of 2021 presents interviews with former and current participants of HSE international postdoc programme, and introduces new postdocs.
Digital Humanities Create New Opportunities for Faculty and Students Alike
On October 3, the School of History and the HSE Centre for Digital Humanities, with support from the Teaching Excellence Initiative, held a lecture by Dr. Andrew Janco (Haverford College, USA) entitled ‘Engaging Students in the Humanities and Sciences through Digital Scholarship Projects.’ Covering methods for engaging students in project-based research in the digital humanities, the lecture aimed to demonstrate the benefits of researchers working with students as co-investigators with their own research interests and agenda.
'Digital Humanities is an umbrella term that encompasses a plethora of projects'
The HSE Centre for Digital Humanities jointly with the School of linguistics and the School of history held the Digital Humanities week. Among the participants were the "Memorial" society, the "Prozhito" project, the Open List, the Centre for Digital Humanities at Perm University, the German Historical Institute Moscow, as well as researchers from various HSE schools and departments.
Seth Bernstein “Victims, Traitors, Refugees: The Social Reception of Soviet Repatriates after World War II”
On January 26 Seth Bernstein gave a presentation “Victims, Traitors, Refugees: The Social Reception of Soviet Repatriates after World War II” at the scholarly seminar of the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences.
“Burying the Alliance: Interment, Repatriation and the Politics of the Sacred in Occupied Germany”
Seth Bernstein's report at the scholarly seminar of the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences
Transnational Connections in History or Why Study the USSR?
On March 11, Seth Bernstein gave a presentation — ‘Burying the Alliance: Interment, Repatriation and the Politics of the Sacred in Occupied Germany’ — at the scholarly seminar of the HSE International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences where he works as a postdoctoral research fellow.
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.