Irina Ivanovna Filatova

Research Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of History

Irina Ivanovna Filatova has been at HSE University since 2004.

Education, Degrees and Academic Titles

1992
Professor
1988
Doctor of Sciences*
Lomonosov Moscow State University
1974
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
1970
Degree
Lomonosov Moscow State University

* Candidate of Sciences
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.

* Doctor of Sciences
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.

Professional Interests

African history 20th century history of Russia Ethno–racial problems Stalinism

Student Term / Thesis Papers

Bachelor
I. Ermolin «Nelson Mandela before Coming to Power: Politics and Political Legacy». Faculty of Humanities, 2019
E. Muravyeva «The Image of the Soviet Woman of 1950–1960 in the English–Language Historiography». Faculty of Humanities, 2019
K. Nilova «The Changing Image of the Afrikaner in the Soviet Press during Apartheid in South Africa (1948–1991)». Faculty of Humanities, 2018
S. Taran «The USSR and the Countries of "Non–Capitalist Development" in Sub-Saharan Africa (1957–1960)». Faculty of Humanities, 2018
K. Chotchaeva «Soviet Society of the 1950s - 1960s in Anglo-American Historiography». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
Master
A. Abdullaeva «State Policy towards Ethnic Minorities in Azerbaijan». Public Policy Department, 2014

Full list of of student term / thesis papers

Editorial board membership

2009: Member of the Editorial Board, Twentieth Century Communism. A journal of international history.

Grants

2008 – State University Higher School of Economics grant 08-01-0071 for research on the topic The State and the Evolution. Political and Social Transformation of the Republic of South Africa in the late 20^th–early 21^st c.

2005-2007 – Ford Foundation (USA) grant towards a biography of Jack Simons.

1995-1997 - National Endowment for the Humanities (USA) research grant towards the completion of the project The Comintern and South Africa: a documentary history (with A. Davidson, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns)

1993-1996 - University of Durban-Westville research grant for the project The Comintern and South Africa: a documentary History.

1992 - 9th Bradlow Fellow, South African Institute of International Affairs.

1990-1991 - Research Fellow, Southern African Research Program, Yale University (USA).

Conferences

2019
Россия-Африка. К истории взаимоотношений (Москва). Presentation: Секрет успеха? К истории отношений России со странами Африки
2018
Исторический нарратив: прошлое, настоящее, будущее (к 2500-летию со дня рождения Геродота Галикарнасского и 2000-летию со дня смерти Тита Ливия) (Москва). Presentation: У истоков изучения Африки в СССР: Африканистика в Коминтерне
Миролюбие и миротворчество в Африке (Москва). Presentation: Нельсон Мандела, как миротворец.
2016
4th Conference of the South Africa/Russia Dialogue Forum (Pretoria). Presentation: Establishing diplomatic relations between Russia and South Africa: The problems, the process and the results.
2015
3rd Conference of the South Africa/Russia Dialogue Forum (Москва). Presentation: Russia and South Africa: nation building texts

Publications²⁹

Chapter Filatova I. I. Gorbachev's 'Perestroika' and the South African Negotiated Settlement, in: Миролюбие и миротворчество в Африке. К 90-летию академика Аполлона Давидсона / Науч. ред.: А. С. Балезин, И. И. Филатова, С. В. Мазов. М. : Весь мир, 2019. Ch. 19. P. 248-277.
Article Filatova I. I. "Red October in South Africa" // Twentieth Century Communism. A journal of international history. 2018. No. 14. P. 41-47.
Article Filatova I. I. South Africa's Soviet Theoretical Legacy // Twentieth Century Communism. A journal of international history. 2018. No. 15. P. 112-133.
Article Filatova I. I., Davidson A. B. 'We, the South African Bolsheviks': The Russian Revolution and South Africa // Journal of Contemporary History. 2017. Vol. 52. No. 4. P. 935-958. doi
Chapter Filatova I. I. Communism in South Africa, in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. P. 1-35. doi
Chapter Filatova I. I. What Colour is the South African Rainbow? The ANC's Racial Transformation., in: Nation and State Building in South Africa and Russia in the Late 20th – early 21st Century / Ed. by A. B. Davidson. M. : Institute of World History, Russain Academy of Scienses, 2017. P. 123-162.
Article Filatova I. I. Russia and the World: the internal-external nexus, edited by Natasha Kuhrt // South African Journal of International Affairs. 2015. Vol. 22. No. 1. P. 133-137. doi
Article Filatova I. I. Third time lucky? Establishing diplomatic relations between Russia and South Africa // South African Journal of International Affairs. 2015. Vol. 22. No. 4. P. 447-462. doi
Chapter Filatova I. I. What colour is the South African Rainbow? The ANC's racial transformation., in: История Африки: старые и новые подходы. XIII Международная конференция «Общество и политика в Африке: неизменное, меняющееся, новое», материалы секции 3-1 «История», Москва, 27-30 мая 2014 г. / Отв. ред.: А. С. Балезин. М. : ИВИ РАН, 2015. P. 281-320.
Article Filatova I. I. Hugh Macmillan. The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia. 1963-1994 (Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2013) // Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa. 2014. Vol. 68. No. 1. P. 126-132.
Article Filatova I. I. Ken Keable (ed.) London Recruits. The Secret War against Apartheid. // Twentieth Century Communism. A journal of international history. 2013. Vol. 5. P. 244-247.
Book Irina Filatova, Apollon Davidson. The Hidden Thread. Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era. Johannesburg, Cape Town : Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, 2013.
Article Filatova I. I. [Rec. ad:] Ken Keable (ed.) London Recruits. The Secret War against Apartheid // Twentieth Century Communism. A journal of international history. 2013. No. 5. P. 244-247.
Article Filatova I. I. The Lasting Legacy: The Soviet Theory of the National-Democratic Revolution and South Africa // South African Historical Journal. 2012. Vol. 64. No. 3. P. 507-537. doi
Book Филатова И. И., Давидсон А. Б. Россия и Южная Африка: наведение мостов . М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2012.
Chapter Davidson A. B., Filatova I. I. From the Zulus to the Kazakhs. Nineteenth Centuiry Contacts between Russia and South Africa, in: African Studies in Russia. Yearbook 2008-2009. M. : ., 2011. P. 134-145.
Article Filatova I. I. What Colour is the South African Rainbow? The ANC's Racial Transformation. // Transformation. Critical Perspectives on South Africa. 2011. No. 75. P. 23-35.
Chapter Филатова И. И. Африканская государственность и африканский ренессанс // В кн.: Государственный суверенитет vs. право наций на самоопределение / Сост.: Г. В. Лукьянов; отв. ред.: А. Л. Рябинин. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2011. С. 74-112.
Book Давидсон А. Б., Зимин Д. Б., Кантор В. К., Касамара В. А., Медведев С. А., Мельвиль А. Ю., Нисневич Ю. А., Пенская Е. Н., Урнов М. Ю., Филатова И. И. Архитектура и скульптура как факторы политической идентичности / Рук.: М. Ю. Урнов; отв. ред.: В. А. Касамара; науч. ред.: М. Ю. Урнов, В. А. Касамара, С. Н. Зарубина. Вып. 34. М. : Гуманитарий, 2010.
Book Давидсон А. Б., Филатова И. И. Россия и Южная Африка: три века связей . М. : Издательский дом ГУ-ВШЭ, 2010. doi
Chapter Филатова И. И. Долгий след: Советская теория национально–освободительного движения и Южная Африка // В кн.: Имперский вопрос и национальный ответ / Отв. ред.: А. Л. Рябинин; под общ. ред.: Г. В. Лукьянов. М. : Издательский дом ГУ-ВШЭ, 2009. С. 149-163.
Chapter Давидсон А. Б., Филатова И. И. Какого цвета "южноафриканское чудо"? Национально-демократическая революция и национальные отношения в ЮАР в конце ХХ - начале ХХI в. // В кн.: Pax Africana: континент и диаспора в поисках себя / Отв. ред.: А. Б. Давидсон. М. : Издательский дом ГУ-ВШЭ, 2009. С. 141-214.
Chapter Давидсон А. Б., Филатова И. И. Национальная политика и национальные отношения в ЮАР после 1994 года // В кн.: Современная Африка: метаморфозы политической власти. М. : Восточная литература, 2009. С. 377-445.
Article Давидсон А. Б., Филатова И. И. Национализм в мировой истории // Новая и новейшая история. 2008. № 3. С. 90-94.
Article Давидсон А. Б., Филатова И. И. Национальная идеология и политическая борьба в ЮАР после 1994 года // Новая и новейшая история. 2008. № 1. С. 100-109.
Article Филатова И. И., Давидсон А. Б. ЮАР после апартеида // Мировая экономика и международные отношения. 2008. № 11
Article Давидсон А. Б., Филатова И. И. Россия и Южная Африка. Ранние взаимные представления // Исторические записки. 2007. № 10. С. 303-343.
Book South Africa and the Communist International: A Documentary History / Ed. by A. B. Davidson, I. I. Filatova, V. V. Gorodnov, S. Johns. Vol. 1: Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers, 1919-1930. L. : Frank Cass, 2003.
Book South Africa and the Communist International: A Documentary History / Ed. by A. B. Davidson, I. I. Filatova, V. V. Gorodnov, S. Johns. Vol. 2: Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation, 1931-1939. L. : Frank Cass, 2003.

Other

Professor emeritus, University of Kvazulu Natal (South Africa)
Teacher, HSR Faculty of History, Political History Department

Courses taught

Сoping with Violence. Patterns from the 20th Century (Faculty of History)
History (Faculty of Foreign Languages)
Migrants and Ethnic Minorities (Public Policy Department)
State Policy in the Sphere of Ethno–National Relations (Public Policy Department)
Global Actors (Public Policy Department)
Human rights in the Globalising World (Public Policy Department)
Conflict Management (Public Policy Department)

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Jun

2014

HSE History Professors Win South African Book of the Year Award

South African publishing conglomerate Media 24 has awarded the book The Hidden Thread. Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Eraby Professors Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson of HSE’s Faculty of History the Recht Malan Prize for Best Non-Fiction of the year. This is the country’s top literary award for works of nonfiction.

Dec

2013

HSE Historians about South Africa

‘The Hidden Thread. Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era’ by Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson is a book covering the history of relations between Soviet Russia and South Africa, which, for many decades, remained hidden even from those who were part of it.