Krista Goff | |
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Thesis | What Makes a People? Soviet Nationality Politics and Minority Experience After World War Two (2014) |
Doctoral advisor | Douglas Northrop, Ronald Grigor Suny |
Krista A. Goff is an American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, who specializes in Soviet nationality politics and the history of the Caucasus in the 20th century.
Goff received a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College and Master of Arts from Brown University. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in history from the University of Michigan. [1] She also studied at universities in Saint Petersburg, Irkutsk and Baku. [2]
Since 2021, Goff has been a co-editor of Kritika journal. [3] That same year, with Cornell University Press, she published Nested Nationalism, a work on non-titular nationalities and nationality policy in Soviet Azerbaijan. [4] [5]
As of 2024, she is an associate professor of history at the University of Miami. She is also the co-director of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) program at Howard University. [6]
Nested Nationalism has received the Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies (2021), [7] Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History (2021), [8] [9] Baker-Burton Award, and Biennial Best Book in Slavic Studies Award. [10] In 2023, Goff won the Dan David Prize. [10] [11]
Korenizatsiia was an early policy of the Soviet Union for the integration of non-Russian nationalities into the governments of their specific Soviet republics. In the 1920s, the policy promoted representatives of the titular nation, and their national minorities, into the lower administrative levels of the local government, bureaucracy, and nomenklatura of their Soviet republics. The main idea of the korenizatsiia was to grow communist cadres for every nationality. In Russian, the term korenizatsiya (коренизация) derives from korennoye naseleniye. The policy practically ended in the mid-1930s with the deportations of various nationalities.
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Ronald Grigor Suny is an American-Armenian historian and political scientist. Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Michigan and served as director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, 2009 to 2012 and was the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan from 2005 to 2015, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History (2015–2022), and is Emeritus Professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago.
Mark Bassin is a geographer and specialist on Russian and German geopolitics. He is currently employed as a professor in historical and contemporary studies at Södertörn University.
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Alexander S. Vucinich was an American historian. He taught at the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976 until his retirement in 1985. He also taught at San Jose State College (1950–64), the University of Illinois (1964–70), and the University of Texas (1970–76). After his retirement he and his wife Dorothy moved to Berkeley, California, where he participated in the activities of Berkeley's Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His field of research was the history of science and social thought in Russia and the Soviet Union.
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This is a select bibliography of English language books and journal articles about the history of Central Asia. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. Book entries have references to journal articles and reviews about them when helpful. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further reading for several book and chapter-length bibliographies.
This is a select bibliography of English language books and journal articles about the history of the Caucasus. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. Book entries have references to journal articles and reviews about them when helpful. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below. The External links section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities. This bibliography specifically excludes non-history related works and self-published books.
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