Barbara Martin obtained her BA in History and Russian studies from the University in Geneva in 2009 and her Masters in International History and Politics from the Graduate Institute in 2011. In September 2016, she completed her PhD in International History, entitled \u201cFilling the \u2018Blank Spots\u2019 of the Dark Pages of our History\u201d: Dissident Historians\u2019 Underground Accounts of the Soviet Past (1956-1985)\u201d (under the supervision of Prof. Andre Liebich). It is forthcoming in 2019 under the title Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: from de-Stalinization to Perestroika.<\/i><\/p>\n
In 2017-2018 she was a post-doctoral researcher in Moscow (Higher School of Economics) and Bremen, Germany (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa) for an SNFS-funded project on strategies of political action of Soviet dissidents during the Cold War and Perestroika. She is working on a biography of the dissident brothers Roy and Zhores Medvedev.<\/p>\n
Her new project focuses on Russian Orthodox dissent and the religious revival in the late Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
Her interests also include the history of the Holocaust and Holodomor, memory politics, and nationalism in the post-Soviet space.<\/p>\n
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Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n Books<\/b><\/p>\n Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: from de-Stalinization to Perestroika (London: Bloomsbury, 2019)<\/p>\n Istoricheskii sbornik Pamiat\u2019: Materialy i Issledovaniia, with Anton Sveshnikov. (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2017).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Peer-Reviewed Articles<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cBetween Scholarship and Dissidence: The Dissident Historical Collection Pamiat\u2019 (1975-1982)\u201d With Anton Sveshnikov. Slavic Review, Vol. 76, n\u00b04, 1003-1026.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Non-Peer Reviewed Articles<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cSoviet Dissidents and the Legacy of the 1917 Revolutions,\u201d Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta. Istoriia, n\u00b01 (2019).<\/p>\n \u201cSoviet dissident historians as a societal phenomenon of the post-Stalin era (1956-1985)\u201d, International Journal of Russian Studies, n\u00b03\/1 (January 2014).<\/p>\n \u00ab Babi Yar : la comm\u00e9moration impossible \u00bb, Emulations, n\u00b012 (printemps 2013), 67-79.<\/p>\n \u00ab Le Holodomor dans les relations russo-ukrainiennes de 2005 \u00e0 2010 : guerre des m\u00e9moires, guerre des identit\u00e9s \u00bb, Relations Internationales, Vol. 2, n\u00b0 150 (Printemps 2012), 105-116.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Book Chapters in Edited Volumes<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cA Selective Silence: Leonid Brezhnev\u2019s Compromise over the Memory of Stalin\u2019s Crimes,\u201d in Truth, Silence and Violence in Emerging States: Histories of the Unspoken, edited by Aidan Russell, 169-187. Routledge: London, 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cOt XX s\u201dezda k \u2018Arkhipelagu GULAG\u2019: Poiavlenie al\u2019ternativnogo istoricheskogo diskursa v Sovetskom dissidentskom dvizhenii (1956-1975).\u201d In Istoricheskii sbornik Pamiat\u2019: Materialy i Issledovaniia, edited by Barbara Martin and Anton Sveshnikov, 15\u201359. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017.<\/p>\n “History as Dissent. Independent Historians in the late Soviet era and in post-Soviet Russia: from \u201cPamiat\u2019\u201d to \u201cMemorial\u201d.”, in Ben Dorfman (ed), Dissent! Refracted, Peter Lang, Frankfurt-am-Main, 2016, 51-76.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Inakopomniashchie\u2019 shestidesiatniki. Poiavlenie al\u2019ternativnoi pamiati o velikoi otechestvennoi voine v period ottepeli I zastoia\u201d, Velikaia otechestvennaia voina v prostranstve sotsialoin pamaiti, Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii, posviashennoi 70-letiiu velikoi pobedy, Moscow, Moskovskii universitet putei soobshcheniia, 2015, 70-81.<\/p>\n Short Papers<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cZhores Medvedev. Lysenko vydvynulsia na repressiakh protiv genetikov. \u00bb With Gennadii Kuzovkin. Troitskii Variant, 04.12.2018.<\/p>\n \u201cArsenii Borisovich Roginskii (1946-2017)\u201d (Obituary). With Kathleen Smith. Slavic Review, vol. 77 n\u00b02 (Summer 2018), 573-574.<\/p>\n \u00ab Une r\u00e9volution de trop : Comment le pouvoir russe tente de neutraliser le centenaire de 1917 \u00bb, Papiers d\u2019actuality \/ Current Affairs in Perspective, Fondation Pierre du Bois, N\u00b08, October 2017.<\/p>\n \u00ab D\u00e9nonciation russe du nationalisme ukrainien comme \u201cfascisme\u201d : aux origines d\u2019une rh\u00e9torique de diabolisation (1917-2015) \u00bb, Papiers d\u2019actualit\u00e9 \/ Current Affairs in Perspective, Fondation Pierre du Bois, N\u00b0 3, March 2015.<\/p>\n \u00ab Au croisement des m\u00e9moires : la Russie face \u00e0 un pass\u00e9 qui divise \u00bb, Papiers d\u2019actualit\u00e9 \/ Current Affairs in Perspective, Fondation Pierre du Bois (forthcoming)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n