Dr Alastair Kocho-WilliamsSenior Lecturer in International and Soviet History BA, MA, PhD (Manchester), PGCLTHE (Leeds) Room No 2CK9 Teaching Specialisms19th and 20th Century Russian and Soviet History in a national and international context.
Research InterestsMy research concerns the conduct and institutions of Russian and Soviet foreign relations during the 20th Century, focusing on the diplomatic corps and the Communist International. Recent PublicationsBooks Russian and Soviet Diplomacy, 1900-1939 (Palgrave, forthcoming 2010) Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes “"Shaping behaviour towards the United States of America in the Soviet Diplomatic Corps and the Communist International, 1917-1945" in Eva-Maria Stolberg (ed), Rivals of the Twentieth Century”: USSR and USA. Two Geopolitical Powers in Competition (forthcoming 2010/11) The Soviet Union and the Lessons of the British General Strike, 1926,” in consideration for publication with Europe-Asia Studies “Stalin’s Students: Selection, Rejection and Progression at the International Lenin School, 1926-1938,” in consideration for publication with The Journal of Contemporary History “Soviet Diplomacy and Foreign Propaganda in the 1920s,” The Historical Journal (forthcoming) “’Embassy Without Government’: The Council of Ambassadors and the Persistence of Tsarist Diplomacy after the Russian Revolution," Diplomacy and Statecraft (forthcoming 2009) “Voline (Vsévolod Mikhailovitch Eichenbaum)”, International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500-Present (Blackwell, 2009) “Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact”; “Andrei Gromyko”; “Eduard Shevardnadze,” Encyclopedia of the Cold War (New York: Routledge, 2008) “The Soviet Diplomatic Corps and Stalin's Purges,” Slavonic and East European Review v. 86 no. 1, pp. 90-112 (January 2008) “Soviet Diplomacy and Foreign Propaganda in the 1920s” (4 December 2007) Book Reviews Review of Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Master of the House: Stalin and his Inner Circle (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008) in Europe-Asia Studies (forthcoming 2009) Review of Vladimir Shubin, The Hot “Cold War”: The USSR in Southern Africa (London: Pluto, 2008) in Diplomacy and Statecraft (forthcoming 2010) Roundtable Review of Keith Neilson, Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939, H-Diplo (2009) Review of Erik Landis, Bandits and Partisans: The Antonov Movement in the Russian Civil War (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), in History (forthcoming 2009) Review of Robert Service, Comrades: A History of World Communism (London: Macmillan, 2007), in Canadian Journal of History, v. 43, no. 2(2008) Review of Lynne Viola, The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements (New York: Oxford, 2007), in History vol. 93 no. 312, p. 582 (2008) Conference Papers “The Soviet Union and Foreign Policy Change in the Summer of 1939,” Plenary Session - The Soviet Union and the Summer of 1939, British International History Group Annual Conference, University of Salford, 3-5 September 2009 (invited speaker) “The Communist International through a British Lens,” Cross-Cultural Communism: Spanish, British, and Chinese Socialists Inside Russia’s International Revolution, American Historical Association 123rd Annual Meeting, New York, 2-5 January 2009 (microfilmed) “Forging the Soviet Foreign Elite in the Interwar Years: The Institute for Preparation in Diplomatic and Consular Work and the International Lenin School,” European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) Lisbon, Portugal, 26 February-1 March 2008 “Engaging the World: Soviet Diplomacy and Foreign Propaganda in the 1920s,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Annual Convention, New Orleans, 15-18 November 2007 "’In diplomacy such a sharp revolution as in internal affairs is of course impossible’: The Soviet Takeover of Diplomacy,” International Centre for Russian Studies, Summer History Workshop, 21-23 June 2006, Moscow Podcasts Russia, Germany & the Alliance System: 1872 -1914 for the thehistoryfaculty.com (2008) “Stalin’s Students: Selection, Rejection and Progression at the International Lenin Department, 1926-1938,” University of the West of England, Staff Research Seminar, 18 November 2006 |
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