Alexander Etkind
Alexander Etkind is a historian and cultural scientist. He is a professor of history and the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute.Career
He completed his B.A. and M.A. in 1978 in Psychology and English at Leningrad State University. In 1985, he completed a PhD in Psychology at Bekhterev Institute, Leningrad and, 1998, completed an additional PhD in Slavonic Studies at the University of Helsinki. Etkind taught at both the European University at St. Petersburg then at Cambridge University where he was also a fellow of King's College. He was a visiting fellow at New York University, Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and other places.
Etkind's research focuses on European and Russian intellectual history, memory studies, natural resources and the history of political economy, empire and colonies in Europe, and Russian politics, novels and film in the 21st century.
From 2010 to 2013 he led the international research project “”. The project studied the role of cultural memory of the Soviet era in Russia, Ukraine and Poland and received funding from Humanities in the European Research Area.
Etkind has publications in Russian and English, and speaks both languages.Selected publications
- Roads not Taken. An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt. Pittsburgh University Press 2017.
- Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia, co-ed. with B. Beumers, O. Gurova and S. Turoma. New York: Routledge, 2017.
- “How Russia Colonized Itself. Internal Colonization in Classical Russian Historiography”, International Journal for History, Culture, and Modernity, Vol 3, No. 2, 2015, pp 159-172.
- “Post-Soviet Russia: The Land of the Oil Curse, Pussy Riot, and Magical Historicism” Boundary 2, Vol 41, No. 1, 2014, pp. 153–170.
- Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe, co-ed. with U. Blacker and J. Fedor, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Warped Mourning. Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2013.
- Remembering Katyn. Cambridge: Polity 2012, co-authored
- Internal Colonization. Russia’s Imperial Experience, Cambridge: Polity 2011
- “,” Russian Review 68 : 623-40
- “” Slavic Review 68, no. 3, Fall 2009, pp. 631–658.
- Хлыст: Секты, литература и революция Moscow: NLO 1998; second revised edition: 2013
- Eros of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis in Russia. Boulder - Oxford: Westview 1996
