School of History

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105066 Moscow, Staraya Basmannaya 21/4, building 3

Phone: +7 (495) 772 95 90 *22858

Administrations

School Head – Galina O. Babkova

Deputy Head of the School – Anastasia Vidnichuk

Academic Supervisor – Alexander B. Kamenskii

Manager – Nadezhda Nekrasova

About the School

The HSE School of History was established in 2015 on the basis of the HSE faculty of history. The School's staff brings together leading scientists in various fields of historical knowledge who are widely known and respected in Russia and the international academic community. The School’s instructors are leading historians are authors of numerous books and articles, regular participants in major international scientific forums and research projects, and are also known as popularizers of historical knowledge. The HSE School of History actively cooperates with leading foreign universities and research centers, and organizes international scientific conferences, symposia, and colloquiums.

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Publications

Book

Russia, Europe and the World in the Long Eighteenth Century

Vidnichuk A.

Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023.

Article

Power and Ownership under a Dictatorship: Early Forms of Nomenklatura Privatization in Stalin's USSR

Oleg V. Khlevniuk.

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2024. Vol. 25. No. 2. P. 299-325.

Book chapter

Performative Self-representation of City Governments

Boytsov M.

In bk.: Patterns in the History of Polycentric Governance in European Cities: From Antiquity to the 21st Century. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024. P. 97-122.

Working paper

Kolesnik A., Rusanov A.

Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021. No. 205.

All publications

'HSE Is a Dynamic Place with So Much Going On'

Isabelle Kaplan has recently joined the Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences as a post-doctoral fellow. She will be working at HSE University for one year.

On Campus international faculty University Life

October 23, 2019

‘As Long as We Think about the Middle Ages as a Dark Time, We Will Remain Dark Ourselves’

Every era builds its own version of the Middle Ages, and the modern age is no exception. Oleg Voskoboynikov, the youngest full professor at the Higher School of Economics, talks about the reason for the popularity of metaphors that refer to that era, why the ‘Suffering Middle Ages’ group on 'VKontakte' is not the same thing as medieval studies and how the desire to be different from everyone else can lead a student to study the Middle Ages.

On Campus professors ideas & experience medieval studies Middle Ages

February 12, 2015

On Campus – News

'HSE Is a Dynamic Place with So Much Going On'

‘As Long as We Think about the Middle Ages as a Dark Time, We Will Remain Dark Ourselves’