Close sidebar Home » Departments and Centres » History and Civilization » Professors » Alexander Etkind Open sidebar menu Alexander Etkind Mikhail M. Bakhtin Professor of History of Russia-Europe Relations Extended CV and Publications Prof. Etkind will not take on any new supervisees in the academic year 2021-2022 Fields of research European intellectual history Memory studies Natural Resources and the history of political economy Empires and colonies in Europe Russian politics, novel and film (21st century) Current research projects Alexander Etkind is leading a research project, Resources of Demodernization: Fossil Energy and Human Capital in the Political Economies across Eastern Europe, financed by the EUI Research Council from 2017 to 2019 Languages Russian, English Contacts Tel. [+39] 055 4686 562 / 362 Email: [email protected] 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 Current seminars at the EUI 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 Selected recent publications 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 Page last updated on 21 January 2021