Dr Mark B. Smith

Associate Professor in Modern European History
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Dr Mark B. Smith
  • the social and cultural history of the Soviet Union, especially after 1945
  • the Western view of Russia; Russian history in the longue durée
  • MPhil in Modern European History: The Soviet Union and Russia since 1970: Contemporary History in Practice
  • Part II: Connected Histories of the USA, USSR and Russia since 1945
  • Part I: Papers 17, 18

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Key Publications

Books

The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It (Allen Lane / Penguin, 2019, 446pp)

Property of Communists: The Urban Housing Program from Stalin to Khrushchev (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010, 240pp)

Journal special issue

Edited with Moritz Foellmer, Urban Societies in Europe, in Contemporary European History 24:4 (2015)

Articles & chapters

  • 'Equality, welfare, myth, and memory: the Artek Pioneer camp at the height of the Khrushchev era', Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 23:2 (2022): 255-87
  • 'Faded red paradise: welfare and the Soviet city after 1953', Contemporary European History, 24:4 (2015): 597-615
  • ‘The withering away of the danger society: the pensions reforms of 1956 and 1964 in the Soviet Union’, Social Science History, 39:1 (2015): 129-48
  • with Moritz Foellmer, 'Urban societies in Europe since 1945: towards an historical interpretation', Contemporary European History, 24:4 (2015): 475-91
  • ‘The life of the Soviet worker’, in Simon Dixon (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History (Oxford University Press, 2016; currently available online)
  • ‘Peaceful coexistence at all costs: Cold War exchanges between Britain and the Soviet Union in 1956’, Cold War History, 12:3 (2012): 537-58
  • ‘Social rights in the Soviet dictatorship: the constitutional right to welfare from Stalin to Brezhnev’, Humanity, 3:3 (2012): 385-406
  • ‘Popular sovereignty and constitutional rights in the USSR’s Supreme Soviet elections of February 1946’, in Ralph Jessen and Hedwig Richter (eds), Voting for Stalin and Hitler: Elections under Twentieth Century Dictatorships (Campus Verlag, 2011): 59-80
  • ‘Khrushchev’s promise to eliminate the urban housing shortage: rights, rationality and the communist future’ in Melanie Ilic and Jeremy Smith (eds), State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev (Routledge, 2009): 26-45
  • ‘Individual forms of ownership in the urban housing fund of the USSR, 1944-64’, Slavonic and East European Review, 86:2 (2008): 283-305