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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
In press
Власов Е. Э.
East European Jewish Affairs. 2026.
Book chapter
Ladynin I. A.
In bk.: Principles and Forms of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction. L.; NY: Anthem Press, 2026. Ch. 2. P. 33-52.
Working paper
Kolesnik A., Rusanov A.
Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021. No. 205.
News
This April, Microhistory Days took place at HSE. The event coincided with the visit to the School of History of Prof. Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (Reykjavík Academy in Iceland) and Dr. István Szijártó (Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest), renowned experts in microhistory, founders of the Microhistory Network, and authors of What is Microhistory? Theory and Practice, a comprehensive analytical monograph.
An international school of young historians, ‘Russian – Polish Entangled History: Scientific Reconstruction and Reflection in the Collective Memory’, took place in April at the School of History (HSE Moscow). Undergraduate and master’s students from HSE and the University of Warsaw took place in the event. Alexander Kamensky, Andrey Iserov, Dariusz Klechowski, Director of the Polish Cultural Centre in Moscow, and Leonid Gorizontov, who lead the organization of the Russian-Polish meeting.
The Director of the HSE Centre for Source Studies presented his research on the role of ‘administrative entrepreneurs’ in the development of early education and other state institutions in Russia under Peter the Great.
The Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (IGITI) held an international conference on 29-30 October 2015 on ‘Biological Concepts, Models, and Metaphors in Social and Human Sciences’. For two days, Russian, European and American researchers discussed the relations between social sciences and the humanities and various life sciences. This topic arises largely in the light of the recent boom in genetics, medicine and biology which have led academics to reconsider previous concepts of boundaries and connections between disciplines.