Alexander McConnell
Bio
Publications
Journal Articles
“‘Tragic Presentiments’: Maksim Gor’kii and the Invention of Soviet Humanism,” Slavic Review vol. 83, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 300-317
Book Chapters
“Masking the Void, Voiding the Mask: Viktor Pelevin and the Performance of History,” in Companion to Victor Pelevin, edited by Sofya Khagi (Academic Studies Press, 2022), 75-103
Academic Reviews
Review of The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR by Jonathan Brunstedt (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 306 pp., The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review vol. 50, no. 3 (October 2023): 359-364
Review of State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent after Stalin by Rebecca Reich (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), 283 pp., EuropeNow, May 7, 2019
Essays & Literary Reviews
“Plight of the Living Dead: An Update on the Cinematic Sage of Empire V,” NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Blog, April 20, 2023
“Empire V meets Generation ‘Z’: The Awkward Business of a Would-Be Blockchain Blockbuster in Wartime,” NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Blog, September 7, 2022
“Stepping in the Same River Twice: On Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad,” Cleveland Review of Books, November 26, 2019
“Pictures at an Execution: On Lev Ozerov’s Portraits Without Frames,” Cleveland Review of Books, December 4, 2018
Education
Ph.D. History University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2023
M.A. Russian & Eurasian Studies European University at Saint Petersburg 2014
B.A. History, with honors Grinnell College 2012
Area(s) of Expertise
Russia and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cultural History, Political Language and Ideology, Public Morality, Literature and Film, History of Emotions, Historical Methods and Writing