Alexander Etkind

Etkind

Mikhail M. Bakhtin Professor of History of Russia-Europe Relations

Russian, English

For appointments please contact the Administrative Assisant: Fabrizio Borchi

Postal address:
Department of History and Civilization
Via Bolognese 156
50139 Florence - Italy

Office SACA418 at Villa Salviati, Castello

History and Social Sciences (with Prof. Stéphane Van Damme) - First Term 2020/2021
Global Commodities: Resources and Materialities (with Prof. G. Riello) - First Term 2020/2021
March Paper in Modern History A - Second Term 2020/2021

Roads not Taken. An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt. Pittsburgh University Press 2017.
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia, co-ed. with B. Beumers, O. Gurova and S. Turoma. New York: Routledge, 2017.
“How Russia Colonized Itself. Internal Colonization in Classical Russian Historiography”, International Journal for History, Culture, and Modernity, 3/2, 2015.
“Post-Soviet Russia: The Land of the Oil Curse, Pussy Riot, and Magical Historicism” Boundary 2, 41:1, 2014, 153-170.
Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe, co-ed. with U. Blacker and J. Fedor, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Warped Mourning. Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2013.
Remembering Katyn. Cambridge: Polity 2012, co-authored
Internal Colonization. Russia’s Imperial Experience, Cambridge: Polity 2011
“A Parable of Misrecognition: Anagnorisis and the Return of the Repressed from the Gulag,” Russian Review 68 (October 2009): 623-40
“Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied: Magical Historicism in Contemporary Russian Fiction” Slavic Review 68, no. 3 (Fall 2009) 631-658.
Хлыст: Секты, литература и революция (The Russian Flagellant: Sects, Literature, and Revolution) Moscow: NLO 1998; second revised edition: 2013
Eros of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis in Russia. Boulder - Oxford: Westview 1996