Institute of Advanced Studies

Biographical note: Mark Edele is a lecturer in History at the University of Western Australia, specializing in the history of the Soviet Union. He received much of his education in Germany and his PhD in 2004 from the University of Chicago. His research has been published in Slavic Review, Kritika, Acta Slavica Iaponica, the Jahrbcher fr Geschichte Osteuropas and in the collection Late Stalinism: Society between Reinvention and Reconstruction ed. Juliane Frst (London: Routledge, 2006). Currently, Edele is working on a social history of Stalinism and a history of the encounter of the German and Soviet armies in World War II, while also finishing a monograph on the history of Soviet war veterans for Oxford University Press.

This lecture was hosted and sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA and formed part of the Dictators lecture series.

- 5 September 2007