Pavel Vasilyev
- Senior Lecturer:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Pavel Vasilyev has been at HSE University since 2020.
Education and Degrees
- 2014
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
- 2010
Master's
Central European University - 2009
Degree
Saint Petersburg 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.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2017–2019 — Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel), postdoctoral fellowship
2014–2016 — Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany), postdoctoral fellowship

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2020)
Courses (2023/2024)
- Akademic Reading (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Gender in History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Society and Health in Historical Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Soviet Art and Intellectual Culture (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- Akademic Reading (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Gender in History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
History and Anthropology of Emotions (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; field of study "46.04.01. История", field of study "46.04.01. История"; 1 year, 4 module)Eng
History and Anthropology of Emotions (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; field of study "51.04.01. Культурология", field of study "46.04.01. История"; 1 year, 4 module)Eng
- Humanity, Disease and Health in Past and Present (Optional course (university); 3 module)Rus
- Soviet Art and Intellectual Culture (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Akademic Reading (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History and Anthropology of Emotions (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Humanity, Disease and Health in Past and Present (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Society and Health in Historical Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Academic Written and Visual Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Akademic Reading (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Epidemiology, Medicine and Gender (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Gender History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (3d year) (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Society and Health in Historical Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
Publications27
- Article Vasilyev P., Konovalova Alexandra. Changing Menstrual Habits in Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Russia // Open Library of Humanities. 2023. Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 1-20. doi
- Article Fedorova O. S., Prokopyeva V. D., Malchuk V. N., Kozyritskaya D. V., Vasilyev P., Ogorodova L. M. Children’s morbidity and mortality in 19th century Western Siberia: review of historical medical records // Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2022. Vol. 107. No. 3. P. 301-302. doi
- Chapter Vasilyev P. Gendered Bodies on Trial: Exploring Litigation Strategies in the Early Soviet People’s Court, in: Volume 10: Women and Gender in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-22. Bloomington : Slavica, 2022. doi P. 213-226. doi
- Chapter Karpova Y., Vasilyev P. Medicine on Russian-Language Social Media, in: The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics. Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. Ch. 30. P. 350-360.
- Chapter Vasilyev P. Modern Russian and Soviet Drug Suppression, in: The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History. Oxford University Press, 2022. Ch. 20. P. 373-388. doi
- Article Погорелов М. А., Яковенко В. А., Васильев П. А. Фотодокументы в архиве Музея истории Преображенской психиатрической больницы им. В.А. Гиляровского // Отечественные архивы. 2022. № 1. С. 78-88.
- Article Vasilyev P., Petrenko A., Tayukina V. Dealing with Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials: The USSR in the Global Context // European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health. 2021. Vol. 78. No. 2. P. 377-391. doi
- Article Vasilyev P., Vinokurova V. Foreign Natives: Psychoactivity, Policing, and the Elusive Corporeality of the Post-Soviet Rave // Contemporary Drug Problems. 2021. Vol. 48. No. 4. P. 362-371. doi
- Article Vasilyev P., Petrenko A., Tayukina V. Soviet pharmaceutical regulation (1918–1990) // CMAJ. 2021. Vol. 193. No. 49. P. 1893-1895. doi
- Article Chirkova Anastasiya, Petrenko A., Vasilyev P. Testing Meldonium: Assessing Soviet pragmatic alternatives to the randomized controlled trial // Clinical Trials. 2021. Vol. 18. No. 3. P. 269-276. doi
- Article Петренко А. Н., Васильев П. А., Марцевич С. Ю., Кутишенко Н. П., Звонарева О. И. Регистрация лекарственных средств в советской контрольно-разрешительной системе на примере кардиологического лекарственного препарата Тринитролонг // Рациональная фармакотерапия в кардиологии. 2021. Т. 17. № 1. С. 133-139. doi
- Chapter Васильев П. А. Эмоции, раскаяние и революционная справедливость: инструкция по поведению в зале суда в раннесоветском Петрограде // В кн.: Обычный человек в необычное время: К 60-летию со дня рождения С.В. Ярова. СПб. : Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2021. С. 68-77.
- Article Vasilyev Pavel A., Zvonareva O. I., Petrenko A. N. Clinical Trials of Rhodiola rosea in Tomsk in the Late Soviet Period // Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Istoriya. 2020. Vol. 65. No. 3. P. 814-825. doi
- Article Vasilyev P. Re/Production Cycles: Affective Economies of Menstruation in Soviet Russia, ca. 1917-1953 // Body Politics: Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte, Германия. 2020. Vol. 8. No. 12. P. 62-79.
- Chapter Vasilyev P. The Power of Positionality? Researching Russian History from the Margins, in: Reading Russian Sources: A Student's Guide to Text and Visual Sources from Russian History. Routledge, 2020. Ch. 3. P. 49-57.
- Chapter Васильев П. А. Пробуя на ощупь границы утопии: эмоции, право и повседневная жизнь в революционной России // В кн.: Гражданская война в России: Жизнь в эпоху социальных экспериментов и военных испытаний, 1917–1922: Материалы международного коллоквиума (Санкт-Петербург, 10–13 июня 2019 г.). СПб. : Издательство Нестор-История, 2020. С. 39-52.
- Chapter וסילייב פאבל. תחושה מהפכנית של צדק? רגש ופסיקה ברוסיה בשלהי שלטון הצאר ובראשית העידן הסובייטי, in: משפט ורגשות. תל אביב: הפקולטה למשפטים ע״ש בוכמן אוניברסיטת תל אביב, 2020. P. 235-252.
- Article Vasilyev P. A Revolutionary Feeling of Justice? Emotion and Legal Judgment in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia // Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Spain. 2019. Vol. 9. No. 5. P. 596-615. doi
- Chapter Vasilyev P., Vidor G. M. Prisoners: Experiencing the Criminal Other, in: Encounters with Emotions: Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity. NY : Berghahn Books, 2019. P. 184-206.
- Chapter Vasilyev P. Reassessing the ‘Drug-Free’ Country: Drug Abuse, the Soviet State, and Contemporary Russian Drug Policy, in: Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances in History, Culture and Theory. L. : Routledge, 2019. Ch. 7. P. 133-149.
- Article Vasilyev P. Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd // Social History. 2018. Vol. 43. No. 4. P. 547-549.
- Article Vasilyev P. Drug Addiction and the Practice of Public Health in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia // Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Istoriya. 2018. Vol. 63. No. 4. P. 1100-1119. doi
- Chapter Vasilyev P. Flirting With the Market: The Early Soviet Government and the Private Provision of Health Care, 1917-1932, in: Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings: Navigating Uncertainties. L. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. doi P. 37-61. doi
- Article Vasilyev P. Sex and Drugs and Revolutionary Justice: Negotiating ‘Female Criminality’ in the Early Soviet Courtroom // Journal of Social Policy Studies. 2018. Vol. 16. No. 2. P. 341-354. doi
- Article Vasilyev P. Beyond Dispassion: Emotions and Judicial Decision-Making in Modern Europe // Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History. Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. 2017. Vol. 25. P. 277-285. doi
- Article Vasilyev P. Revolutionary Conscience, Remorse and Resentment: Emotions and Early Soviet Criminal Law, 1917-1922 // Historical Research. 2017. Vol. 90. No. 247. P. 117-133. doi
- Article Vasilyev P. Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State // History. 2017. Vol. 102. No. 351. P. 506-507.
Grants
2020-2021 - "Ending Period Poverty in Scotland: A Historical and International Perspective" (with Bettina Bildhauer et al.) - RSE Arts & Humanities Research Grant (£20.000 total), Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
2018 – 2021 - "Balancing Knowledge Reliability and Ethical Acceptability in Clinical Trials: From Emergence of a Randomized Controlled Trial to Precision Medicine" (with Olga Zvonareva et al.) - Early Career Researcher Program Grant under the Presidential Program of Research Projects (12.22 million Russian rubles total), Russian Science Foundation (RSF)
International Research from Home: HSE – Saint Petersburg Launches New Short-Term Programme
Much has been said about online education over the last year. What used to be perceived as a challenge a few months ago has become a new comfort zone and does not impress anyone. Indeed, during the pandemic, we have proved that persistence, professionalism, and flexibility bring good results even when the world is turned upside-down. Having had a successful experience of hosting the St. Petersburg HSE Summer School online, the university introduces HSE – St. Petersburg International Research School, a new project encouraging students all over the world to explore different areas — from Russia’s role in international relations to social, cultural, gender aspects of Russia’s historical experience, and even to the burning issue of what global business is going to be like when the COVID-19 crisis is over.