Dr. Alexander Statiev
Affiliation
Associate professor, University of Waterloo
Bio
Alexander Statiev teaches Russian and East European history. He has published a book on Soviet counterinsurgency, and also articles on pro- and anti-Soviet resistance during World War II, blocking and penal units in the Red Army, Soviet deportations, Russian war memory and the Romanian armed forces. He is currently working on a book on the battle in the high Caucasus in 1942. His next book project targets Soviet adventure tourism.
Select Publications
“Soviet Partisan Violence Against Soviet Civilians: Targeting their own”, Europe-Asia Studies 66/9 (2014), 1525-52.
“‘La Garde meurt mais ne se rend pas!’: Once Again on the 28 Panfilov Heroes”, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, (October 2012), 13 (4), 769-798.
“Blocking Units in the Red Army”, The Journal of Military History, 76(2), April 2012, 475-495.
The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 368 pp.
“Soviet Ethnic Deportations: Intent versus Outcome”, Journal of Genocide Research, 11(2-3), June 2009, 243-264.
Awards
Standard SSHRC Research Grant, 2011 ($45,000)
Graduate Supervision
The Soviet Union and imperial Russia, forced migrations, military history
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