Dr. Denis Kozlov
 

Office:  3012 McCain Arts & Social Science Building

Office Hours:  Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30-12 pm 

Email:  DENIS.KOZLOV@DAL.CA

Tel:   902-494-6952, 902-494-3349 (fax) 
  

COURSES OFFERED

HIST 2022 IMPERIAL RUSSIA  
 
HIST 3045 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 
 
HIST 3090 SOVIET HISTORY THROUGH LITERATURE

HIST 1004 INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN HISTORY
 
HIST 2021 SOVIET RUSSIA

HIST3092/RUSN3092 History and Memory in Modern Russia
  

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Modern Russia (Soviet and Imperial); Russian and Soviet cultural and intellectual history; history and memory in modern Russia; history through literature in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union; departing from authoritarianism in post-World War II Russia and Europe; migrations in 20th-century Russia and Europe

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s. Cornell University Press, under contract, manuscript submission: 2008. Co-editor (with Eleonor Gilburd), co-author of the introduction, and contributor.

The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930. Co-editor (with Lynne Viola, Viktor P. Danilov, and Nikolai A. Ivnitskii). Annals of Communism Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 427 pp.

Novoangliiskii separatizm v SShA v nachale XIX veka.  [New England Separatism in the United States in the Early Nineteenth Century.] Saint Petersburg: Glossa, 1997. 112 pp.

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

“Remembering and Explaining the Terror during the Thaw,” in The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s, ed. Denis Kozlov and Eleonor Gilburd. Cornell University Press, under contract

“Introduction: Histories of the Thaw,” in The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s

“‘I Have Not Read, but I Will Say’: Soviet Literary Audiences and Changing Ideas of Social Membership, 1958-1966,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 7, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 557-597

“Naming the Social Evil: The Readers of Novyi mir and Vladimir Dudintsev’s Not by Bread Alone, 1956-1959 and beyond,” The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization: A Social and Cultural History of Reform in the Khrushchev Era, ed. Polly A. Jones (London & New York: Routledge, 2006): 80-98

“The Leningrad Martyrology:  A Statistical Note on the 1937 Executions in Leningrad City and Region,” Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 44, no. 3-4

(September-December 2002): 175-208. Annual essay prize of the Canadian Association of Slavists, 2000

“The Historical Turn in Late Soviet Culture: Retrospectivism, Factography, Doubt, 1953-1991,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 2, no. 3 (Summer 2001): 577-600

Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and Conference Abstracts

“Destalinization”; “Khrushchev, Nikita”; “Pasternak, Boris,” in Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, ed. Jay Winter and John Merriman (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006)

Review of Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 22, nos. 1-2 (March-June 2005): 184-185

“History Education in the Universities of Russia and North America: The Problem of Training a Competent and Creative Historian,” in Education and Youth Policies in Contemporary Russia: Proceedings of the All-Russian Scholarly Practical Conference, 26-28 Sept. 2002 (St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg University Press, 2002): 329-331 (in Russian)

Review of Veniamin Tsukerman and Zinaida Azarkh, Arzamas-16: Soviet Scientists in the Nuclear Age: A Memoir (Nottingham: Bramcote Press, 1999), Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 43, no. 2-3 (June-Sept 2001): 324-326

Review of Igal Halfin, From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness, and Salvation in Revolutionary Russia (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2000), Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 43, no. 1 (March 2001): 162-163

Review of Anna Feldman Leibovich, The Russian Concept of Work: Suffering, Drama and Tradition in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russia (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995), Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 41, no. 3 - 4 (September – December 1999): 461-463

Review of Leonid Maksimenkov, Sumbur vmesto muzyki: Stalinskaia kul’turnaia revoliutsiia, 1936 – 1938 (Moscow: Iuridicheskaia Kniga, 1997), Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 41, no. 3 - 4 (September – December 1999): 472-473

Four articles in the American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History, ed. John Mack Farragher (New York: Henry Holt, 1998): “Cortés, Hernan (1485-1547),” 213-214; “George, Henry (1839-97),” 351; “Truth, Sojourner (1797?-1883),” 949-50; “Wells Barnett, Ida Bell (1862-1931),” 997-98

 “The Cold War of the West,” a review of Martin Walker, The Cold War: A History (New York: Henry Holt, 1994), Bard Journal of Social Sciences (Spring 1994): 100-101

CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

Co-organizer (with Eleonor Gilburd) of an international conference: “The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s,” University of California, Berkeley, May 12-15, 2005.
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Sheila Fitzpatrick/Mellon Foundation, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Toronto, this first conference on the Soviet 1950s and 1960s brought together 39 participants from North America and Europe. Selected papers will be published in a peer-reviewed volume.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007-08 (declined)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Held at the University of California, Berkeley, 2005-07

National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, 2004-05, co-recipient

University of Toronto Humanities Centre, Margaret Higgins Memorial Fellowship, 2004-05

Government of Ontario, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2003-04, 2002-03, 2001-02

University of Toronto Fellowship, 2003-04, 2002-03

University of Toronto, Connaught Award, 2002-03

University of Toronto, Connaught Scholarship, 2000-01, 1999-2000

University of Toronto History Department, Research Travel Grant, 2001

University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies, Research Travel Grant, 2001, 2000

Canadian Association of Slavists, Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2000

University of Toronto Centre for Russian and East European Studies, Karel and Ellen Buzek Fellowship

NAFSA-USIA Russia-Eurasia Awards Program Fellowship, 1995-97