Dr. Denis Kozlov
 

Office:  3012 McCain Arts & Social Science Building

Office Hours:  Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00-3:00 pm

Email:  Denis.Kozlov@Dal.ca

Tel:  902-494-6952

COURSES OFFERED

HIST 2022 / RUSN 2022 Imperial Russia

HIST 2021 / RUSN 2023 Soviet Russia

HIST 3090 / RUSN 3090 Soviet History through Literature

HIST 3092 / RUSN 3092 History and Memory in Modern Russia

HIST 1004 Introduction to European History

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Denis Kozlov’s field of research is twentieth-century Russia, with an emphasis on cultural and intellectual history. He is completing a book about the reading audiences, historical consciousness and mechanisms of intellectual change in the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1960s. On the basis of archival evidence of readers’ letters to literary periodicals, especially to the journal Novyi mir, the book explores how several thousand Soviet readers comprehended their life experiences in the framework of the twentieth century. His interests also include the history of migrations in twentieth-century Russia. He teaches lecture courses on Soviet and Imperial Russia as well as advanced seminars on history and memory and history through literature in late modern Russia.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Collections

The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s. Co-editor (with Eleonory Gilburd) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2012.

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.

Monograph

Novoangliiskii separatism v SShA v nachale XIX veka.  [New England Sectionalism in the United States in the Early Nineteenth Century.]  Saint Petersburg: Glossa, 1997. 112 pp. In Russian Paperback.

Journal Guest Editorship

The Thaw and After: Late Soviet Culture and Society. Two issues of Russian Studies in History: vol. 49, no. 4 (Spring 2011); vol. 50, no. 1 (Summer 2011)

Articles and Book Chapters

“Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia,” in Oxford History of Historical Writing, vol. 5, ed. Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011): 375-398

“Writing about the Thaw in Post-Soviet Russia,” Russian Studies in History, vol. 49, no. 4 (Spring 2011): 3-17

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

“The Thaw as an Event in Russian History,” in The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s, forthcoming (co-authored with Eleonory Gulburd)

“Remembering and Explaining the Terror during the Thaw,” in The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s, forthcoming

“‘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 Krushchev Era, ed. Polly 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

Review of Stephen Cohen, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), Slavonic and East European Review, forthcoming 2012

Review of Igal Halfin, Stalinist Confessions: Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), Russian Review, vol. 70, no. 1 (January 2011): 158-159

Review of Igor Narskii, Fotokartochka na pamiat’: Semeinye istorii, fotograficheskie poslaniia i sovetskoe detstvo (Avto-bio-istoriograficheskii roman) (Cheliabinsk: OOO Entsiklopediia, 2008), Slavic Review, vol. 69, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 519-520

Three Articles 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):

            “Destalinization,” vol. 2, pp. 837-840

            “Khrushchev, Nikita,” vol. 3, pp. 1553-1557

            “Pasternak, Boris,” vol. 4, pp. 1994-1995

Review of Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historial 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 (Bramcote Press, 1999), Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 43, no. 2-3 (2001): 324-326

Review of Igal Halfin, From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness, and Salvation in Revolutionary Russia (Pittsburgh University Press, 2000), Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 43, no. 1 (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),” pp. 213-214; “George, Henry (1839-97),” p. 351; “Truth, Sojourner (1797?-1883),” pp. 949-50; “Wells Barnett, Ida Bell (1862-1931),” pp. 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

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors, 2010-11

Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-09

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, 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, 2000

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