Jeffrey Burds
Associate
Professor of Russian & Soviet History
Office: 269 Holmes Hall
Mailing: 249
j.burds@neu.edu
Phone: (617) 373-2079 Fax: (617) 373-2661
Curriculum Vitae
Associate,
Co-Director, Center for the Study of
Office Hours:
Wednesdays
& by appointment
Fields of Interest:
Modern Russian and
Soviet History; 20th-century Ukraine
I do research in the international history of
modern
Courses:
All syllabi are
available on-line. Most on-line readings are password protected to comply with
U.S. laws on fair use of copyrighted materials.
Summer One 2009
HSTU387 Soviet Secret Police
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
HNRU302 Honors Seminar
History of
Espionage
Monday-Thursday
Summer Two 2009
HSTU387 Soviet Secret
Police
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Autumn 2009
HRU205 Spy Wars: A History
of Covert Operations in World War II
Monday & Thursday
HSTU170 Introduction to
European History
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
Wednesday sections
HSTG203 Topics in Soviet
History
Wednesday
Spring 2010
HSTU301/302 History Seminar
HRU205 Spy Wars: A History
of Covert Operations in World War II
Monday & Wednesday
HNRU302 Honors Seminar
History of Espionage
Wednesdays
HSTU387 Soviet Secret Police
Monday & Thursday
Other courses
HSTU213 History of Violence
HSTU286 History of the Soviet Union
HSTU313 Revolution & Gender in Russian and China (with Prof. Gilmartin)
HSTU388 Borderlands: World War II in Soviet Eastern Europe
HSTG203 Topics in Soviet History
Borderlands: World War
II in Soviet Eastern Europe
HSTG314 Research Seminar in World History
HST3305 European Social History, 1650-1850
HST3390 Research Seminar in Russian History
Representative Publications:
Ранние годы холодной
войны: шпионаж и национализм
на Западной
Украине
(1944-1948) [The Early Years of the Cold War: Espionage and Nationalism in
"Sexual
Violence in Europe in World War II, "
published in a special issue on “Sexual Violence during War” in Politics and
Society (March, 2009).
"Ethnic
Conflict and Minority Refugee Flight from Post-Soviet Ukraine, 1991-2001"
The International Journal of Human Rights
Volume 12, Number 5 (December 2008): 689-723.
"The Soviet War against 'Fifth Columnists:' The Case of Chechnya, 1942-1944," Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 42, Number 2 (April 2007).
Советская агентура: очерки истории СССР в послевоенные годы, 1944-1948 [Soviet Police Informants: Essays on the History of the USSR during the Postwar Years, 1944-1948] (Moscow and New York: «Sovremennaia Istoriia» [Contemporary History], 2006).
"Ukraine:
the Meaning of Persecution,"
"Ethnicity,
Memory, and Violence: Reflections on Special Problems in Soviet & East
European Archives," in Francis X. Blouin and
William G. Rosenberg, eds., Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of
Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar (
"'Москальки':
женщины-агенты
и
националистическое
подполье на Западной
Украине, 1944-1948," [Moskal'ki: Women-Agents and the Nationalist
Underground in
"Gender and Policing in Soviet West Ukraine, 1944-1948, " Cahiers du Monde Russe Volume 42, Numbers 2-4 (April-December 2001).
The Early Cold War in Soviet West Ukraine, 1944-1948, Number 1505 in The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2001).
"Борьба
с
бандитизмом
в СССР в 1944-1953 гг."
[The Struggle Against Banditry in the
Peasant Dreams
and Market Politics: Labor Migration & the
"AGENTURA: Soviet Informants' Networks in Galicia, 1944-1948," Eastern European Politics and Societies (January 1997).
With S. V. Prasolova, A. K. Sokolov, and E. A. Tiurina. The Russian State Archive of Economics: A Research Guide. 2. Guide to Collections. Volume II, Part 2 in The Russian Archive Series, University of Pittsburgh. In Russian and English (Moscow-Pittsburgh, 1996).
The Russian State Archive: A Researcher's Guide. Compiled, introduced and edited by S.V. Mironenko and Jeffrey Burds. Volume IV in The Russian Archive Series, University of Pittsburgh. In Russian and English (Moscow-Pittsburgh, 1996).
"A Culture of Denunciation: Patterns of Religious Anathematization in Rural Russia, 1860-1905," in Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately, eds., Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989 (University of Chicago Press, 1997) and the Journal of Modern History (December 1996).
The Russian State Archive of Economics: A Researcher's Guide. compiled, introduced and edited by Svetlana Prasolova, Andrei Sokolov, William Chase and Jeffrey Burds. Volume II, Parts 1 and 2 in The Russian Archive Series, University of Pittsburgh. The Russian and English (Moscow-Pittsburgh, 1994, 1996).
"The Social Control of Peasant Labor in Russia: The Responses of Village Communities to labor Migration in the Central Industrial Region, 1861-1905," in Peasant Economy, Culture and Politics in European Russia, 1800-1921, edited by Esther Kingston-Mann and Timothy R. Mixter, with the Assistance of Jeffrey Burds (Princeton University Press, 1991).