Education
- Ph.D. from Moscow State University (1986)
Research Interests
Russian History, Eastern Europe, Holocaust
Selected Publications
Books
Purifying the Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi Allied Romania Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
Articles/Essays
"An Important New Document on the Romanian Policy of Ethnic Cleansing during World War II," Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2007 21: 268-297.
"Patterns of Violence: Local Population and the Mass Murder of Jews in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, July-August 1941," in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 8 (4: 2007), 749-787.
"Regulation of Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Countries: The Cases of Latvia and Moldova Compared/UREJANJE MEDETNIČNIH ODNOSOV IN POST-SOVJETSKIH DRŽAVAH: PRIMERJAVA MED LATVIJO IN MOLDOVO" in Razprave in gradivo, N 52 (2007), pp. 316-342.
"'Model Province': Explaining the Holocaust of Bessarabian and Bukovinian Jewry," Nationalities Papers, Vol. 34, No. 4, September 2006, pp. 471-500.
"Creating 'a People': A Case Study in Post-Soviet History-Writing." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2003: 411-448.
"From Silence to Justification?: Moldovan Historians on the Holocaust of Bessarabian and Transnistrian Jews." in Nationalities Papers, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2002: 435-457.
"Narrative, Identity, State: History Teaching in Moldova." East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2002: 415-446.
Book Sections/Chapters
"Trandniestria: Old Problems, New Developments" in Beyond EU Enlargement. Berthelsman, 2002.
"Moldova: Two Conflicts with Different Histories" in Societies in Conflict: The Contribution of Law and Democracy to Conflict Resolution. Council of Europe, 2000.
"Regulation of Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Countries: the Cases of Latvia and Moldova Compared" in Constitutional, Legal, and Political Regulation and Management of Ethnic Relations. Ljubljana, 2000.
"The Political Elite of the Republic of Moldova" in The New Elite in Post-Communist Eastern Europe. Texas A&M Pres, 1999, 188-200.
"Difficulties in Constructing a Nation-State in the Republic of Moldova" in The Transformation of the Nation-State in Europe at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Council of Europe, 1998: 369-380.
With Vladimir Bruter, "Russians in Moldova" in The New Russian Diaspora: Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics. M.E. Sharp, 1994: 72-91.
Spring 2010 Courses
| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time |
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| 21543 | EUH4574 | HISTORY OF RUSSIA: 1801-1917 | Face2Face | Tu,Th 4:30PM - 5:45PM |
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| 22629 | EUH6939 | SEMINAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORY | Face2Face | W 6:00PM - 8:50PM |
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