Russia in the World. A discussion held as part of the Paulsen Programme.
Funded by the Dr. Frederik Paulsen Foundation, the Paulsen Programme was established to support early- and mid-career historians based in Russia whose research focused on the history of the Russian Empire from the mid-seventeenth century to 1918. It sought to expand scholars’ access to international archives, libraries, conferences, and professional networks, while making their research more visible within the worldwide community of historians.
Alongside fellowships and conference grants, the Programme organised international research seminars in Saint Petersburg in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics. Alexander Semyonov and Dominic Lieven served as curators of the joint seminar programme. The seminars brought together historians of imperial Russia from different generations, institutions, regions, and national academic traditions. The Programme concluded with an international conference held in Kazakhstan in 2024.
Lecture from the series “New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia.”
Lecture from the series “New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia.”
Körber-Stiftung podcast series: “The Empire Strikes Back”. Why is Vladimir Putin using history as a tool for geopolitical expansion, and why does he rewrite history? The past in the context of the Tsarist Empire as well as the Soviet Union plays an important role in Russia’s foreign and domestic politics. Which vision of the future is connected to these references to distant or less distant pasts? And what is the role of diversity in all this?
Radio Liberty program marking the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death.
The Romanovs ruled Russia for centuries until World War One brought a revolution that ended their reign. Allan Little hosts a debate on the legacy of the Russian revolution.
Interview for the television program “Project 2015,” broadcast on April 18, 2017. A century after Petrograd workers enthusiastically greeted V. I. Lenin’s return from exile in April 1917, the program asks how popular left-wing slogans are today, how Bolshevik ideas changed over the course of a century, and whether urban residents would like to return to Soviet times. These and other questions were posed to the studio guests by host Mikhail Titov.
Interview for the television program “Project 2015.” Exactly one hundred years earlier, in June 1917, Lenin spoke the phrase “There is such a party!” at the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets, a phrase that helped define the subsequent history of Russia. The program discusses why Vladimir Ilyich so easily won popular affection, how contemporaries described the leader of the revolution, and how Russians assess Lenin today. These and other questions were posed to the studio guests by host Mikhail Titov.
Ab Imperio editor Alexander Semyonov and net.abimperio.net moderator Vladimir Uspensky interview Lithuanian historian Darius Staliūnas about contemporary Lithuanian historiography, the state of academic history in Lithuania, and its relations with scholarly communities in other countries.
On February 28, 2013, the Faculty of History at HSE University in St. Petersburg hosted a meeting with Irina Prokhorova, editor-in-chief of the New Literary Observer publishing house, and Ilya Kalinin, editor-in-chief of Neprikosnovenny Zapas and associate professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at St. Petersburg State University. The roundtable also featured Alexander Semyonov, Dean of the Faculty of History, and Evgeny Anisimov, academic supervisor of the Faculty of History.