Liudmila Novikova
- Associate Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of History
- Liudmila Novikova has been at HSE University since 2013.
Education and Degrees
- 2004
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
- 1996
Degree
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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.
Courses (2022/2023)
- Political History of Russia (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Political History of Russia (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Recent Trends in the Scholarship on Soviet History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2020/2021)
- History of 20th Century (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Russia in the 20th Century (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
- History of 20th Century (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Russia in the 20th Century (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Books6
- 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 Гарвардский проект: рассекреченные свидетельства о Великой Отечественной войне / Сост.: О. В. Будницкий, Л. Г. Новикова; под общ. ред.: О. В. Будницкий, Л. Г. Новикова. М. : РОССПЭН, 2018.
- Book Novikova L. La “controrivoluzione” in provincia. Movimento bianco e Guerra civile nella Russia del nord, 1917-1920 / Пер. с рус. Rome : Viella, 2015.
- Book Russia’s Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-22 / Ed. by L. Novikova, S. Badcock, A. Retish. Vol. 1: Russia’s Revolution in Regional Perspective. Bloomington : Slavica Publishers, 2015.
- Book СССР во Второй мировой войне: Оккупация. Холокост. Сталинизм / Отв. ред.: О. В. Будницкий; под общ. ред.: О. В. Будницкий, Л. Г. Новикова. М. : РОССПЭН, 2014.
- Book Новикова Л. Г. Провинциальная "контрреволюция": Белое движение и Гражданская война на русском Севере, 1917-1920. М. : Новое литературное обозрение, 2011.
Articles and chapters12
- Article Novikova L. Everyday Life, Work, and Survival on the Soviet Home Front in World War II // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2023. Vol. 24. No. 1. P. 207-220.
- Article Novikova L. Criminalized Liaisons: Soviet Women and Allied Sailors in Wartime Arkhangel'sk // Journal of Contemporary History. 2020. Vol. 55. No. 4. P. 745-763. doi
- Article Новикова Л. Г. Последний Ленин: советская топонимика и символическая трансформация в Архангельске в 1990-е гг. // Ab Imperio. 2020. № 2. С. 137-169. doi
- Article Novikova L. Red Patriots against White Patriots: Contesting Patriotism in the Civil War in North Russia // Europe-Asia Studies. 2019. Vol. 71. No. 2. P. 183-202. doi
- Article Ljudmila Novikova. Horizonterweiterung: Zur Historiography der Russischen Revolution / Пер. с рус. // Osteuropa. 2017. Vol. 67. No. 6-8. P. 295-304.
- Article Novikova Ljudmila Le zemstvo de la région (oblast') du Nord pendant la guerre civile : entre représentation politique et bureaucratie administrative // Cahiers du Monde Russe. 2017. Т. 58. № 1-2. С. 95-122.
- Article Novikova L. The Russian Revolution from a Provincial Perspective // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2015. Vol. 16. No. 4. P. 769-785. doi
- Chapter Novikova L. Zemstvo, State, and Peasants in Arkhangel’sk Province, 1917-20, in: Russia’s Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-22 / Ed. by L. Novikova, S. Badcock, A. Retish. Vol. 1: Russia’s Revolution in Regional Perspective. Bloomington : Slavica Publishers, 2015. P. 87-108.
- Article Ljudmila Novikova. Kontinuum der Gewalt: Der Norden Russlands 1914–1920 // Osteuropa. 2014. Vol. 64. No. 2-4. P. 157-170.
- Article Liudmila G. Novikova. Russia’s Red Revolutionary and White Terror, 1917–1921: a Provincial Perspective // Europe-Asia Studies. 2013. Vol. 65. No. 9. P. 1755-1770. doi
- Article Novikova, Ljudmila G. Il grano e le armi. Rivoluzione, 'controrivoluzione' e guerra civile popolare nella Russia del nord, 1917-1920 / Пер. с рус. // Rivista Storica Italiana. 2012. Vol. 124. No. 2. P. 734-763.
- Article Liudmila G. Novikova. Northerners into Whites: Popular participation in the counter-revolution in Arkhangel'sk province, summer-autumn 1918 // Europe-Asia Studies. 2008. Vol. 60. No. 2. P. 277-293.
Book reviews and review essays8
- Article L. G. Novikova. Review of Myklebost, Kari Aga Nielsen, Jens Petter Rogatchevski, AndreiThe Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond // Slavonic and East European Review. 2021. Vol. 99. No. 1. P. 185-186.
- Article Новикова Л. Г. Место "блокадной этики" в дискуссиях о войне и сталинизме // Российская история. 2014. № 3. С. 30-33.
- Article Новикова Л. Г. [Рецензия на книгу] E.C. Landis. Bandits and Partisans: The Antonov Movement in the Russian Civil War (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) // Российская история. 2013. № 1. С. 216-219.
- Article Novikova L.G. [Review of] Robert Service. Trotsky: A Biography (London: Macmillan, 2009); David North. In Defense of Leon Trotsky (Oak Park, MI: Mehring Books, 2010) // Slavonic and East European Review. 2012. Vol. 90. No. 3. P. 561-563.
- Article Novikova L.G. [Review of] Matthew Rendle. Defenders of the Motherland: The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) // Slavonic and East European Review. 2011. Vol. 89. No. 3. P. 567-568.
- Article Novikova L.G. [Review of] Igal Halfin, Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928 // Slavonic and East European Review. 2009. Vol. 87. No. 3. P. 569-571.
- Article Новикова Л. Г. Революция 1917 года и гражданская война в российской провинции: два взгляда западных историков // Российская история. 2009. № 6. С. 169-176.
Other publications4
- Chapter Budnitskii O., Novikova L. L’ Ukraine occupée, vue de l’ intérieur et racontée de l’ extérieur, in: Combattre, survivre, temoigner: Expériences soviétiques de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.. Strasbourg : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2020. P. 239-270.
- Chapter Будницкий О. В., Новикова Л. Г. Великая Отечественная война: взгляд с «другой стороны» // В кн.: Гарвардский проект: рассекреченные свидетельства о Великой Отечественной войне / Сост.: О. В. Будницкий, Л. Г. Новикова; под общ. ред.: О. В. Будницкий, Л. Г. Новикова. М. : РОССПЭН, 2018. Гл. 1. С. 5-26.
- Chapter Budnitskii O., Novikova L., Makhalova I. L'Ukraine sous l'occupation nazie vue de l'intérieur, in: Relater la guerre sur le front Est. Strasbourg : Pesses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2016. (in press)
- Article Новикова Л. Г., Будницкий О. В., Махалова И. А. Украина под нацистской оккупацией: взгляд изнутри (по материалам Гарвардского проекта) // Родина. 2015
Conferences
- 2015ICCEES IX World Congress (Makuhari). Presentation: “Grassroots violence in the Russian Civil War”
- 2014Patriotic Cultures during the First World War (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: “From the First World War to the Russian Civil War: The Patriotisms of Reds and Whites”
- 2013BASEES/ICCEES European Congress (Cambridge). Presentation: “Civil War in North Russia: Zemstvo role in the White administration and the etatization of the local self-government, 1918-1920”
Editorial board membership
2013–2018: Member of the Editorial Board (Associate Editor), Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.
Employment history
2005-2013 - Assistant Professor, later - Associate Professor at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies of Lomonosov Moscow State University
‘The Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past’
This summer, the HSE Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences was reorganized to become the HSE Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Oleg Budnitskii, Doctor of Historical Sciences, head of the Centre and director of the Institute, talked to the HSE News Service about the new division.
Slut-Shaming by Lend-Lease
How Soviet women paid a price for associating with allied soldiers
International Scholarly Conference "A «Memory Revolution»: Soviet History through the Lens of Personal Documents"
The conference was held on 7-8 June 2017 in Moscow
HSE Offers Traineeship Opportunities for International Doctoral Students
Doctoral schools provide an opportunity for international doctoral students to undertake part of their study or research at HSE. The university offers two types of traineeships – research and study. The study stay involves taking courses from the HSE doctoral schools. The research stay offers the opportunity to work with a particular academic advisor or at an international research laboratory or centre; gain access to international full-text and abstract databases, journals and books; and attend graduate seminars.
'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.
‘Russia's Revolution in Regional Perspective’ Edited by Liudmila Novikova
Slavica Publishers (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) issued the first book of the collection of essays ‘Russian Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-22’.
Russian Home Front In War And Revolution, 1914-22. Russia's Revolution In Regional Perspective
Slavica Publishers (Bloomington, IN) issued the collection of papers edited by Liudmila Novikova, Deputy Director of the the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences. Novikova also prepared one of the chapters.
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.
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.
Book by Liudmila Novikova Translated into Italian
The publishing house Viella issued the Italian edition of the book La “Controrivoluzione” in Provincia. Movimento Bianco e Guerra Civile nella Russia del Nord, 1917–1920 (Provincial Counter-revolution: White Movement and the Civil War in North Russia, 1917-1920) by Liudmila Novikova, Deputy Director of The International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences and Associate Professor at the School of History.