Research

Research interests

  • socialism as an alternative modernity
  • youth
  • popular culture
  • leisure
  • consumption
  • emotions
  • the Cold War
  • individual and collective
  • generations
  • violence
  • social control


Current Book-Length Research Project

"Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Cold War Soviet Union, 1945-1970"

Here is a link to a brief abstract of the book I am currently writing


Next Research Project

I have begun research on my next book-length study, “Patrolling Soviet and Post-Soviet Society: Volunteer Police in the USSR and Post-Soviet Russia, 1945-2010.” 

Here is a link to a brief abstract of my new study.


Here are links to full-length versions of my English-language articles on my research

1   “'As a Citizen, I Cannot Ignore These Facts': Whistleblowing in the Khrushchev Era,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 58.1 (March 2010): 52-69.

2   “Citizenship, Deviance, and Identity: Soviet Youth Newspapers as Agents of Social Control in the Thaw-Era Leisure Campaign,” Cahiers du monde russe 49.4 (October-December 2008): 629-49.