Andreas Umland

Thesis Title: ″Post-Soviet ‘Uncivil Society’ and the Rise of Aleksandr Dugin: A Case Study of the Extraparliamentary Radical Right in Contemporary Russia,″ 79,700 words, University of Cambridge Library 2007, http://www.sps.cam.ac.uk/central_pdfs/ann_report_0607.pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Leonid Luks (ZIMOS)

About

I study the post-Soviet extreme right at the Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies (ZIMOS), a small, yet active research center, in Upper Bavaria, focusing on current Russian political and intellectual history. See http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/ . Since 2005, I have been also involved in the creation, in Ukraine, of a new Master's program in German and European Studies administered jointly by Kyiv's Mohyla Academy and Jena's Schiller University. See http://dsg.mohyla.uni-jena.de/ .

I would be glad to hear from people with similar research interests (see below), and from those wanting to publish their dissertations, monographs, edited volumes or document collections in the English- and German-language book series "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society" where 85 volumes were published in 2004-2008 (www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html ). Among the particular (but not only) foci of this series are Russian nationalism (http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK38GJQXL0CN9AM ), post-communist politics (http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/ABDE6L94T5H8R/ ), and higher education in CEE or the NIS (http://www.amazon.de/Higher-Education-in-Eastern-Europe-English-language-Books/lm/R3BBCQE249Q9D3/ ).

ZIMOS's web journal "Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury" (http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forumruss.html ) invites Russian-language scholarly papers in the fields of contemporary East European history, post-Soviet politics, and Eurasian cultural studies.

If interested, please, do not hesitate to join the groups "Russian Nationalism" (links lists, papers, listserv & newsletter) at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/russian_nationalism/ , "Researchers of Russian Nationalism" (networking, updates & discussion) at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=157897 , and "Researchers of Historical and Neo-Fascism" (networking, updates & discussion) at http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1640147/ as well as at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52910686741 . (Applications for joining these groups are submitted by clicking the relevant buttons on the above homepages.)

If you use AmazonConnect, I would be glad to add you to the "Interesting People" or "Friends" sections at http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/ABDE6L94T5H8R/ .
If you have worked in Eastern Europe or the NIS, I would be interested in comments, additions and corrections concerning the guide "Teach at a university in the former Soviet bloc" at http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/REKTGK0DL1N8F/ . (A list of additional German-language literature can be found here: http://www.amazon.de/Das-Hochschulwesen-Osteuropas-deutschspr-Bücher/lm/R1GDNZU1JWNJYP/ .)

Some of my journalistic texts are available here: http://digg.com/users/Umland/history/submissions/

If you are or were a student of mine, please, evaluate my course/s at http://www.meinprof.de/uni/prof/42839 .

I also use LinkedIn, XING, Professionali.ru and Facebook for networking. Please, connect via: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasumland, https://www.xing.com/profile/Andreas_Umland2, http://professionali.ru/~256036 and http://www.facebook.com/people/Andreas-Umland/1037655458 . My favorite social network is Facebook.

PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS: Soviet history and post-Soviet politics; Russian nationalism; post-communist ethno-centrism; international right-wing extremism; comparative fascism; New Right Gramscianism; uncivil society; Conservative Revolution; antisemitism. See, for instance, http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK1YQDTK6FC5YYS

SECONDARY RESEARCH INTERESTS: Totalitarianism; electoral authoritarianism; revolutions; transitology & collapsology; cross-cultural comparison; qualitative and concept analysis; terminology; higher education reform in Eastern Europe and the NIS; post-socialist social sciences and historical writing.

BRIEF BIO: CertTransl (Leipzig), AM (Stanford), MPhil (Oxford), DipPolSci, DrPhil (FU Berlin), PhD (Cambridge). Visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, in 1997-99, and Harvard’s Weatherhead Center, in 2001-02. Bosch visiting lecturer at Yekaterinburg’s Urals State University, in 1999-2001, and Kyiv’s Mohyla Academy, in 2003/05. Temporary lecturer in Russian and East European studies at St. Antony’s College Oxford, in January-December 2004. General editor of the book series "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society" (http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html ), since 2004. DAAD visiting lecturer at Kyiv’s Shevchenko University, in 2005-08. Co-compiler of the biweekly "Russian Nationalism Bulletin" (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/russian_nationalism/ ), since 2007. Research fellow at Eichstaett’s Catholic University and co-editor of the web journal "Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury" (http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forumruss.html ), since 2008.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Late Tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet history; post-communist transitions; Russian politics; ultra-nationalism in today Russia; rise and fall of fascism; Nazism in comparative perspective; inter-war German ultra-conservatism; contemporary European right-wing radicalism; history and problems of European integration; EU institutions; introduction to the philosophy and methodology of social science; conduct of cross-cultural analysis; macrohistorical comparison; political concepts and terminology.

PAPERS, RESEARCH NOTES and REVIEW ESSAYS in "European Political Science," "Political Studies Review," "European History Quarterly," "Harvard International Review," "Problems of Post-Communism," "The Russian Review," "East European Jewish Affairs," "Demokratizatsiya," "The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics," "The Journal of Slavic Military Studies," "Russian Politics and Law," "Oxford Analytica," "Russian Analytical Digest," "CEU Political Science Journal," "Osteuropa," "Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft," "Neue Politische Literatur," "Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen," "Jahrbuch für Ostrecht," "Osteuropa-Recht," "Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung," "Erwägen Wissen Ethik," "Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte," "Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik," "Russland-Analysen," "Ukraine-Analysen," "Die Neue Gesellschaft: Frankfurter Hefte," "Berliner Debatte: Initial," "Eurasisches Magazin," "Zur Debatte," "Zeitschrift antirassistischer Gruppen," "Phase 2," "Politicheskie issledovaniia," "Voprosy filosofii," "Svobodnaia mysl'," "Pro et Contra," "Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost’," "Neprikosnovennyi zapas," "Ab Imperio," "Novaia i noveishaia istoriia," "Sotsiologicheskii zhurnal," "Sravnitel'noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie," "Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury," "Bez temy," and other journals as well as 20+ collected volumes.

WORKING PAPERS on the websites of NATO's Academic Forum, Harvard's Weatherhead Center, and Bremen's Forschungsstelle Osteuropa.

ARTICLES and COMMENTS in "The Washington Post," "The Wall Street Journal," "Le Monde diplomatique," "The Globe and Mail," "The Jerusalem Post," "The Moscow Times," "St. Petersburg Times," "The National Interest Online," "Washington ProFile," "Kyiv Post," "Prospect Magazine," "Russia Profile," "Open Democracy," "The Globalist," "Asia Times Online," "The Georgian Times," "Turkish Daily News," "Today's Zaman," "Global Politician," "OpEdNews," "American Chronicle," "Online Journal," "Atlantic Community," "New Atlanticist," "History News Network," "World News," "Woodstock Road Editorial," "Johnson's Russia List," "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung," "e-Politik," "Ukraine-Nachrichten," "The New Times/Novoe vremia" (Moscow), "Kontinent," "Novaia gazeta," "Posev," "Russkaia Germaniia," "Lenta.ru," "Forum.msk.ru," "Newsland.ru," "inoSMI," "InoPressa," "Tretii put'," "Geopolitika" (Lithuania), "The Ukrainian Weekly," "Mobus News," "Korrespondent" (Kyiv), "Zerkalo nedeli," "Ukrainskaia pravda," "Novynar," "Krytyka," "Ukrainskyi tyzhden," "Glavred," "UNIAN," "Fraza," "Vlasti.net," "Ukraina segodnia," "Real'na polityka," "DailyUA," "DialogUA," "inoZMI," "Delfi," "Telegraf" (Minsk), "Gruziia Online," and other periodicals & websites.

BOOK REVIEWS and NOTES in "Democratization," "Party Politics," "Europe-Asia Studies," "The Slavonic and East European Review," "Patterns of Prejudice," "Nationalism and Ethnic Politics," "Religion, State and Society," "e-Extreme," "Politische Vierteljahresschrift," "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft," "Zeitschrift für Politik," "Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft," "Comparativ," "Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas," "Ethnos-Nation" as well as in some of the periodicals listed above.

INTERVIEWS for "The Chronicle of Higher Education," "Times Higher Education," "Deutsche Welle," "Der Spiegel Online," "The Moscow Times," "Süddeutsche Zeitung," "STB.ua," "Teleopolis," "BBC Ukrainian," "Stolichnye novosti" (Kyiv), "Trud" (Moscow) and other outlets.

LINKS to some of my publications available on the WWW are listed at http://digg.com/users/Umland as well as at http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/ABDE6L94T5H8R/ref=cm_pdp_blog_post_title_2#postPMCABDE6L94T5H8Rat1163514875

GROUPS and ASSOCIATIONS: American Assocation for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), American Political Science Association (APSA), International Political Science Association (IPSA), Russian Political Science Association (RAPN), Eurasian Political Studies Network (EPSN; http://eng.espi.ru/ ), Deutsch-Russischer Austausch (DRA), Network on the Comparative Study of Bolshevism and National Socialism (http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/netzwerk.html ), Political Extremism Section of the German Society for Political Science (http://www.politik.uni-mainz.de/dvpw-politischer-extremismus ), European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group "Extremism and Democracy" (http://www.tufts.edu/~dart01/extremismanddemocracy/ ), German Society for East European Studies (DGO).

PRESENTATIONS at conventions and meetings of the AAASS, APSA, IPSA, ECPR, DGO, ICCEES, EPSN, CES, DRA, FES and other organizations, as well as within workshops, lecture series and conferences at Stanford, Harvard, Perm' State, Yaroslavl' Pedagogical, Jenaer Forum für Bildung und Wissenschaft, OEI Munich, CEU Budapest, HAIT Dresden, ZZF Potsdam, and other institutions.