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Regular version of the site
105066 Moscow, Staraya Basmannaya 21/4, building 3
Phone: +7 (495) 772 95 90 *22858
Administrations
School Head
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Galina O. Babkova
Deputy Head of the School
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Pavel Puchkov
Academic Supervisor
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Alexander B. Kamenskii
Manager
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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.
Book
Principles and Forms of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction
Gleb V. Aleksandrov, Bondarenko D. M., Anna K. Aleksandrova et al.
L.; NY: Anthem Press, 2026.
Article
Russian Journal of Economics. 2026. Vol. 12. No. 1. P. 121-136.
Book chapter
Anna K. Aleksandrova.
In bk.: Principles and Forms of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction. L.; NY: Anthem Press, 2026. Ch. 9. P. 177-197.
Working paper
Kolesnik A., Rusanov A.
Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021. No. 205.
News
.jpg "Sergei Zatravkin and Elena Vishlenkova issued the article in the Journal of the History of Science and Technology")
The International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences at HSE University held a Graduate Student Seminar in Soviet History together with Sciences Po (France) on June 17 – 18, 2019. HSE News Service spoke with participants and instructors of the seminar, which examinedthe impact of WWII on the Soviet Union and surrounding regions, as well as aspects of the Soviet system from Stalin up to the 1980s.
On June 24-25, HSE University held the international academic conference, ‘The 1990s: A Social History of Russia’ organized by International Center for the History and Sociology of World World War II and its Consequences, the Boris Yeltsin Center, the Egor Gaider Foundation, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. HSE News Service spoke with Roberto Rabbia, one of the international participants, about how he became interested in Soviet history, why he reads Soviet newspapers, and what he has learned from his research.
On October 3, the School of History and the HSE Centre for Digital Humanities, with support from the Teaching Excellence Initiative, held a lecture by Dr. Andrew Janco (Haverford College, USA) entitled ‘Engaging Students in the Humanities and Sciences through Digital Scholarship Projects.’ Covering methods for engaging students in project-based research in the digital humanities, the lecture aimed to demonstrate the benefits of researchers working with students as co-investigators with their own research interests and agenda.
On October 10, Stephen Wheatcroft, Professor of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne delivered a lecture on ‘The importance of the grain problem in the Russian Revolution and for the next 40 years of Soviet Economics' at HSE Moscow as part of a long and busy schedule. A participant at previous April Conferences at HSE, Professor Wheatcroft is one of the world’s foremost experts on Soviet social, economic and demographic history, as well as famine and food supply problems in modern world history.
On May 31, Valerie Kivelson, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, will be delivering a seminar entitled ‘Visualizing Empire: Muscovite Images of Race’. Professor Kivelson is an expert in Medieval and early modern Russia, history of cartography, history of witchcraft, religion, and political culture, among other topics. She is the author of 'Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth Century Russia' and a guest editor of 'Witchcraft Casebook: Magic in Russia, Poland and Ukraine. 15-21st Centuries'.