Oleg Budnitskii

Curriculum Vitae
Oleg V. Budnitskii

Professor, Department of History and Director, Center for the History and Sociology of WWII, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Editor-in-Chief, Archive of Jewish History
Office:

Department of History, rooms 204, 205

National Research University Higher School of Economics

12 Petrovka St.,

Moscow 107031

Russia

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Education:
1998: Doctor of Historical Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian History, Moscow.

Dissertation: “Terrorism in the Russian Revolutionary Movement: Ideology, Ethics, Psychology.”

1989: Candidate of Historical Sciences (Ph. D. in History), Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of History of the USSR, Moscow.

Dissertation: “History of the Study of People’s Will Party in the end of XIX – beginning of XX century.”

1976: Diploma in History (M.A.), Rostov State Pedagogical Institute.
Professional experience:

2010 to present – Professor, Department of History, National Research University Higher School of Economics

1998 to present - Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

1995 – 1998 - Professor, Head of the Department of Russian History, Rostov State Pedagogical University

1992-1994 – Research Fellow, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor, Department of History, Jewish University in Moscow

1988 - 1992 - Senior Lecturer, then Associate Professor of History, Rostov State Pedagogical University

1982-1988 – Lecturer, Rostov State Pedagogical Institute

1980-1982 – Researcher, Department of Archeology, Rostov State Pedagogical Institute

Courses Regularly Taught:
History of the World War II, History of the Russian Emigration, Russian History in Comparative Perspective
Professional Service:
Member of the Dissertation Council: Russian State University for the Humanities
Member of Editorial Board:

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe

East European Jewish Affairs
Professional Pursuits in Media:
Commentator on historical and some political issues on Radio Echo of Moscow and Radio Liberty. Author of about 80 one-hour broadcasts on Russian history. Audio files available at http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/netak/ and http://www.svobodanews.ru/

Academic adviser of documentary films: Ordinary Bolshevism (Russia, Globus Films,

1999), The Red Zion (Russia, Fortuna Films, 2006), Ochberg’s Orphan’s (Republic of

South Africa & U.K., Rainmaker Films, 2007)

Grants and Awards:
Grants from Russian Humanities Fund (1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003-2005, 2006, 2007, 2008-10, 2011), American Council of Learned Societies (2002, 2004), Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (2001), Fulbright Program (1999), Research Support Scheme (1998), Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (1997), MacArthur Foundation (1996), International Research and Exchange Board (1994), travel grants from Open Society Institute, World Union for Jewish Studies, American Association for Jewish Studies, etc.
Fellowships:
Ina Levine Senior Invitational Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, September 2009 – May 2010

Skirball Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, Oxford University, January 2002 – June 2002

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Stanford University, September 1999 – July 2000

IREX Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace, September 1994 – May 1995

Guest lectures:

University of California (Berkeley), Stanford University, Harvard University, Rutgers University, Columbia University, University of Maryland (College Park), Georgetown University, New York University, Tulane University, Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Glasgow, Toronto University, Tübingen University, Freie Universität (Berlin), Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris), etc.

Papers at the following conferences:
National Conventions of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (Washington, 2011; Boston, 2009; New Orleans, 2007; Washington, 2006; Boston, 2004; Denver, 2000), Soviet Union in World War II (Paris, May 2011), Jews in the East European Borderlands: Daily Life, Violence, and Memory (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 2009), Soviet Jewish Soldiers, Jewish Resistance, and Jews in the USSR during the Holocaust (New York, November 2008), Russian-Jewish Paris (Paris, November 2008), 39^th Annual Conference of the American Association for Jewish Studies (Toronto, December 2007), Russia and Germany: Fascination and Enmity (Berlin, June 2007), VIII Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (Moscow, July 2006), Russian-Jewish New York (New York, April 2006), Jews and Russian Revolutions, 1905-1920 (Stanford University, November 2005), VII World Congress of the International Council for Central and  East European Studies (Berlin, July 2005), Anti-Jewish Violence: Reconceptualizing “the Pogrom” in European History, 17th-20th Century (Stockholm, May 2005), Russian Émigré Periodicals, 1920-2000 (Moscow, May 2005), The World Crisis of 1914-1920 and the Fate of East European Jewry (S.-Petersburg, November 2004), Policy and Practice: Combating Terrorism: Russia’s Domestic and Foreign Policy Approach (Moscow, September 2004), À l’origine d’une politique humanitaire moderne: les réfugiés russes et le Zemgor (1921-1939) (Paris, June 2004), The Revolution of 1905: A Turning Point in Jewish History? (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 2004), The Enigma of Isaac Babel (Stanford University, March 2004), Soviet and Post-Soviet Jewry (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 2003), History and Culture of Russian and East European Jewry: New Sources, New Approaches (Moscow, December 2003), Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe (University of Pennsylvania, May 2003), Shaping Memory, Shaping Identity in Russian History (Stanford University, March 2003), The Intelligentsias of Russia and Poland (Lund University, August 2002), Russian and East European Book and Manuscript Collections in the United States (New York, October 2001), Culture in Exile, Culture of Exile (Paris, January 2001), XI, XII and XIII World Congresses of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, 1993, 1997, 2001), Historiography of the Russian Emigration (Moscow, February 2001), Occupations and Liberations in 19th and 20th Russian History (University of Maryland, College Park, 2000), Ashkenaz: Theory and Nation (Krakow, 1998), Jews of the Former USSR: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: An International Policy Conference (St.Petersburg, 1996), etc.

Publications:
Monographs:
Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 508 p.
Den’gi russkoi emigratsii: Kolchakovskoe zoloto. 1918-1957 (Money of the Russian Emigration: Kolchak’s Gold) (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe obozrenie, 2008), 512 p.
Rossiiskie evrei mezhdy krasnymi i belymi (1917-1920) (Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920) (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2005), 552 p.

(English translation, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

Reviews: Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 32, nos. 2-3 (2005), 301-308 (Igor Mizhailov), Russian Review 65, no.3 (Summer 2006), 536-537 (David Shneer); Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 7, no. 3 (Summer 2006), 667-674 (Donald Raleigh); Corriere della Serra (June 21, 2006) (Vittorio Strada); Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (November 22, 2006) (Verena Dohrn); Revolutionary Russia 19, no. 2 (December 2006), 235-237 (Liudmila Novikova); Otechestvennaia Istoriia 5 (2006), 168-171 (Vladimir Buldakov); Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 82 (2006), 511-515 (Sergei Yarov); Rodina 12 (2006), 82-87 (Gennady Kostyrchenko); Judaica 63, no. 1-2 (2007), 167-8 (Verena Dohrn); Cahiers du Mond russe 48/4 (Octobre-décembre (2007), 817-821 (Catherine Gousseff), Slavic Review 67, no.2 (Summer 2008), 501-502 (Natan Meir); Osteuropa 58, Jr., 8-10 (2008), 511-513 (Anke Hilbrenner), etc.
Terrorizm v rossiiskom osvoboditel’nom dvizhenii: ideologiia, etika, psikhologiia (Terrorism in the Russian Liberation Movement: Ideology, Ethics, Psychology) (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2000), 399 p.
Other books:
Spor o Rossii: V.A.Maklakov – V.V.Shulgin. Perepiska 1919-1939 (Debate about Russia: V.A.Maklakov – V.V.Shulgin. Correspondence 1919-1939 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2012), 439 p. (Editor)

Evreiskaia emigratsiia iz Rossii, 1881-2005 (Jewish Emigration from Russia, 1881-2005) (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2008). 447 p. (Editor and contributor)

Archiv evreiskoi istorii (Archive of Jewish History), Vol. 1 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2004). 456 p.; Vol. 2 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2005). 464 p.; Vol. 3 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2006). 408 p.; Vol. 4 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2007). 372 p.; Vol. 5 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2008). 368 p.; Vol. 6 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2011). 350 p.; Vol. 7 (Moscow, ROSSPEN, 2012). 324 p. (forthcoming) (Editor-in-chief)

Russko-evreiskaia kul’tura (Russian-Jewish Culture) (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2006). 495 p. (Editor)

Mirovoi krisis 1914-1920 godov i sud’ba vostochnoevropeiskogo evreistva (The World Crisis of 1914-1920 and the Fate of East European Jewry) (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2005). 448 p. (Editor and contributor)

Istoriia i cul’tura rossiiskogo i vostochnoevropeiskogo evreistva: novye istochniki, novye podkhody (History and Culture of Russian and East European Jewry: New Sources, New Approaches) (Moscow: Dom evreiskoi knigi, 2004). 424 p. (Co-Editor and contributor)

Russia and the Russian Emigration in Memoirs and Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography, 1917-1991. In 4 vols. (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2003-2006). (Editor, in cooperation with Andrei Tartakovskii and Terence Emmons)

Rossiiskii sionizm: istoriia i kul’tura (Russian Zionism: History and Culture) (Moscow: Dom Evreiskoi Knigi, 2002). 326 p. (Co-Editor and contributor)

Sovershenno lichno i doveritel’no! (Strictly Personal and Confidential! B.A. Bakhmetev and V.A. Maklakov. Correspondence 1919-1951). (Moscow; Stanford: ROSSPEN and Hoover Press, 2001-2002). Vol.1. 1919-1921. 568 p.; Vol. 2. 1921-1923. 672 p.; Vol.3. 1923-1951. 672 p. (Editor)

Evrei i russkaia revolutsiia (Jews and Russian Revolution) (Moscow; Jerusalem: Gesharim, 1999), 480 p. (Editor, compiler and contributor)

Revolutsionnyi radikalizm v Rossii (Revolutionary Radicalism in Russia) (Moscow: Arkheograficheskii Center, 1997), 576 p. (Co-Editor)

Istoriia terrorizma v Rossii (History of the Terrorism in Russia): A Textbook for University Students (Rostov-on-Don: Feonix Publishing House, 1996), 576 p.

Zhenshchiny-terroristki v Rossii (Female Terrorists in Russia) (Rostov-on-Don: Phoenix Publishing House, 1996), 640 p. (Editor)

Krov’ po sovesti (Blood and Conscience): Terrorism in Russia: Documents and Biographies (Rostov-on-Don: Rostov State Pedagogical University Press, 1994), 256 p. (Editor)
Selected Articles (titles translated from Russian to English, otherwise noted):

1. 
   In German “Von Berlin aus gesehen - Die Russische Revolution, die Juden und die Sowjetmacht,” Verena Dohrn, Gertrud Pickhan (Hg.), Transit und Transformation. Osteuropäisch-jüdische Migranten in Berlin 1918-­1939 (Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010), 156-172.
   
2. 
   In English “The Intelligentsia Meets the Enemy: Educated Soviet Officers in Defeated Germany, 1945,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 10 (3) (Summer 2009), 629-682.
   
3. 
   In English “The Reds and the Jews, or the Comrades in Arms of the Military Reporter Liutov,” Gregory Freidin, ed., The Enigma of Isaac Babel: Biography, History, Context (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2009), 65-81.
   
4. 
   In English “The Jews and Revolution: Russian Perspectives, 1881-1918,” East European Jewish Affairs 38 (3) (2008), 321-334.
   
5. 
   In German “Die Juden und die Tscheka: Mythen, Zahlen, Menschen,” Osteuropa 58, Jr., 8-10 (2008), 111-130.
   
6. 
   In English “The ‘Jewish Battalions’ in the Red Army,” Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro'i, eds., Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), 15-35.
   
7. 
   “The Red Army, or about Communists and General Staff Officers,” Krasnaia Armiia, 1918-1946 (Moscow: Interros, 2007), 17-26.
   
8. 
   “Jews in the Russian Empire, 1772-1917,” (co-author), M. Dolbilov, A. Miller, eds. Zapadnye Okrainy Rossiiskoi Imperii (Western Frontier of the Russian Empire) (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2006), 301-340.
   
9. 
   “Russian Social-Democrats and the Problem of Revolutionary Terrorism,” Mirovaia Social-Democratiia: Teoriia, Istoriia, Sovremennost’ (Moscow: Sobranie, 2006), 118-143.
   
10. 
    “Conference of the Russian Ambassadors in Paris and Zemgor: Money and Politics, 1921-1925,” Cahiers du Monde russe 46/4 (Octobre-décembre 2005), 699-718.
    
11. 
    “The Generals and Money, or “Wrangel’s Silver”,” Diaspora VI (Paris; St. Petersburg: Athenaeum; Phoenix, 2004), 134-173.
    
12. 
    “Money of the Russian Emigration: Historiography of the Issue,” Otechestvennaia Istoriia 3 (2004), 148-159.
    
13. 
    “Money for the White Cause,” Istoricheskie Zapiski 7(125) 2004, 57-85.
    
14. 
    In English “Russian Liberalism in War and Revolution,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 1(5) (Winter 2004), 149-168.
    
15. 
    “Ideology of the Terrorism,” Voprosy Philosophii 5 (2004), 3-19.
    
16. 
    In English “Battling Balfour: “White Diplomacy”, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine,” East European Jewish Affairs 1(34) (Summer 2004), 72-90.
    
17. 
    “The Russian Truth Brotherhood – the Last Literary Project of S.A. Sokolov-Krechetov,” Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 6 (64) (2003), 114-143.
    
18. 
    “The Diplomats and Money,” Diaspora V (Paris; St. Petersburg: Athenaeum; Phoenix, 2003), 283-334.
    
19. 
    In English “Boris Bakhmeteff’s Intellectual Legacy in American and Russian Collections,” Slavic & East European Information Resources 4 (4) (2003), 5-12.
    
20. 
    “Kolchak’s Gold”, Diaspora IV (Paris; St. Petersburg: Phoenix, 2002), 457-510.
    
21. 
    “Russian Liberalism and the Jewish Question, 1917-20,” Grazhdanskaia Voina v Rossii: Sobytiia, Mneniia, Ozenki (Moscow: Raritet, 2002), 517-541.
    
22. 
    In English “Jews, Pogroms, and the White Movement: A Historiographical Critique,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2 (4) (Fall 2001), 751-772.
    
23. 
    “Ten years after, or Correspondence of 1927,” Diaspora II (St. Petersburg: Phoenix, 2001), 368-477.
    
24. 
    “An Attempt of Reconciliation,” Diaspora I (Paris & St. Petersburg: Atheneum&Feonix, 2001), 179-240.
    
25. 
    “Vassiliy Alekseevich Maklakov,” B. Itenberg & V. Shelokhaev, eds. Rossiiskie Liberaly (Russian Liberals) (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2001), 492-533.
    
26. 
    “The case of Paramonov: From Rostov to Los Angeles,” Natsional’nye Diaspory v Rossii i za rubezhom v XIX-XX vv. (Diasporas in Russia and Abroad) (Moscow: Institute of Russain History, 2001), 181-193.
    
27. 
    “Golden miracles,” Rodina: Russian Historical Magazine 3 (2001), 69-74.
    
28. 
    “Historian from “generation of lieutenants”, Otechestvennaia Istoriia 5 (2001), 131-137.
    
29. 
    “On the History of the Russian Emigration in France: Comments on the publication in AI #1-2/2001,” Ab Imperio 3(2001), 267-272.
    
30. 
    “The Estate and National Questions in Imperial Russia,” Ab Imperio 3(2001), 283-297.
    
31. 
    “Miliukov and Maklakov: To the History of their Relations,” P.N.Miliukov – Istorik, Politik, Diplomat (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2000), 358-383.
    
32. 
    “B.A.Bakhmetev – Ambassador of non-existent Government,” Novaia i Noveishaia Istoriia (Journal of Modern and Contemporary History) 1(2000), 134-166.
    
33. 
    In English “Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites,” Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Division B. History of the Jewish People (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 2000), 189-198.
    
34. 
    “Miliukov and Maklakov: Two Views on Russian Liberalizm,” Liberalism v Rossii: Istoricheskie Sud’by i Perspectivy/ Liberalism in Russia: Historical Fates and Perspectives (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1999), 416-428.
    
35. 
    “A Bomb and Morality,” Tretii Etazh (The Third Floor) 2 (1999), 5-14
    
36. 
    “The Case of Nina Berberova,” Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (New Literary Review) 39 (1999), 141-173.
    
37. 
    “Untypical Maklakov,” Otechestvennaia Istoriia 2 (1999), 12-26; 3(1999), 64-81.
    
38. 
    “V.A.Maklakov and the Jewish Question,” Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta (Journal of Jewish University) (Moscow; Jerusalem) 1(19) (1999), 42-94.
    
39. 
    “The War of Winston Churchill”, in Winston Churchill, Vtoraia Mirovaia Voina (The Second World War) (Rostov-on-Don: Feonix Publishing House, 1997), 4-28.
    
40. 
    “In Search for a New Russia: Letters of B.A.Bakhmetev and V.A.Maklakov,” Otechestvennaia Istoriia 1 (1997), 135-149, 2 (1997), 161-173, 4 (1997), 160-174.
    
41. 
    “Ideology for a New Russia,” The Role of Scholars in Building Civil Society (USIA, 1997), 181-188.
    
42. 
    “Behind the Scenes: Correspondence between M.Aldanov and B.Nicolaevsky,” Istochnik (The Source) 2 (1997), 56-76.
    
43. 
    “Émigré’s correspondence: V.A.Maklakov and A.A.Kizevetter,” Istochnik (The Source) 2 (1996), 4-24 (in cooperation with Prof. Terence Emmons, Stanford University).
    
44. 
    “"To Plunge into Russia": Correspondence between V.A.Maklakov and B.A.Bakhmetev,” Otechestvennaia Istoriia 2 (1996), 141-166.
    
45. 
    “Vassily Maklakov and His Letters-Portraits,” Rodina: Russian Historical Magazine 10 (1996), 54-61.
    
46. 
    “Hangover on Someone Else’s Fist: Jews and Russian Revolution,” Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta v Moskve (Journal of Jewish University in Moscow) 13 (1996), 21-40.
    
47. 
    “The Roots of Terrorism: 1860s,” Za Strokoi Uchebnika Istorii (Beyond a History Textbook) (Rostov-on-Don, 1995), 198-209.
    
48. 
    “The Theoretical Murder,” Ibid., 210-220.
    
49. 
    “The Last Members of the People’s Will Party: History of the South-Russian Organization,” Ibid., 221-232.
    
50. 
    In English “The Russian Ambassador in Paris on the Whites and the Jews, 1919-1920,” Jews in Eastern Europe 3(28) (1995), 53-66.
    
51. 
    “Petr Kropotkin and the Problem of Revolutionary Terrorism,” Izvestiia Severo-Kavkazskogo Tsentra Vysshei Shkoly (News of the Higher Educational Institutions. The North-Caucasian Region) 3-4 (1994), 47-54.
    
52. 
    In English “Political Leaders among Jews in Rostov-on-Don, 1900-1920,” Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies. (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1994. Division B. Vol. 1), 37-44.
    
53. 
    “"Jewish Question" in Émigré Publicism of 1920-1930s,” Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta v Moskve (Journal of Jewish University in Moscow) 3(7) (1994), 4-27.
    
54. 
    “Blood and Conscience: Terrorism in Russia (second half of the XIX - beginning of the XXth centuries,” Otechestvennaia Istoriia 6 (1994), 203-209.
    
55. 
    “The Last Members of the People's Will Party: Deeds and Destinies,” Izvestiia Severo-Kavkazskogo Tsentra Vysshei Shkoly (News of the Higher Education Institutions. The North-Caucasian Region) 4 (1993), 60-71.
    
56. 
    In English “The Jews in Rostov-on-Don in 1918-1919,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 3(19) (1992), 16-29.
    
57. 
    “Vladimir Burtsev and His Correspondents,” Otechestvennaia Istoriia 6 (1992), 110-122.
    

Encyclopedia and periodicals articles, reviews, etc.: about 150 publications.