Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr. Liudmila Novikova

I am a scholar of twentieth-century Russian political and social history with a particular focus on the Russian Revolution and the Civil War as well as World War II. My first book An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative: The White Movement and the Civil War in the Russian North (2018; published also in Russian and in Italian) is a regional study of the anti-Bolshevik resistance, in particular of the movement’s revolutionary agenda, and the nature of its popular support. My second book project deals with the Soviet home front and Soviet-Allied cooperation in the USSR’s northern ports of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk during World War II. It tells the dramatic story of the Soviet struggle for survival and the challenges of the inter-allied cooperation on the local level, when former archenemies turned into allies, albeit for a brief period of time. I have also authored journal articles and book chapters, and edited several collected volumes on various aspects of the Russian Revolution and Civil War as well as Soviet participation in World War II. Additionally, I served as associate editor of the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies, and for ten years worked as Associate Professor in History and Deputy Director of the Higher School of Economics’ International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences in Moscow.