Irina Ivanovna FilatovaNational Research University Higher School of Economics | HSE · School of Historical Sciences
Irina Ivanovna Filatova
PhD
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September 2004 - present
Position
- Professor
Description
- Taught a variety of courses, e.g. African History, Authoritarianism and democracy, Russian History, Nations and nationalism, English Language historiography of the Russian 20th century history, Coping with violence: patterns from the 20th century (a video-conference course with George Mason University . Authored a Coursera Course "Stalin and Stalinism in the soviet Era". Studied a history of ties between Russia and South Africa, a history of African state, ethnicity and published on them
September 1973 - June 1992
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- Taught African history, studied the history of Kenya and the history of statehood in Africa and published on these topics. Began to study the history of ties between Russia and Africa.
September 1992 - July 2002
Position
- Professor Emeritus
Description
- Taught African and Russian History, worked on the history of ties between Russia and South Africa, on the history of communist movement in South Africa, on Comintern, on ethnicity and race in Africa and on the history of statehood in Africa and published on all these topics.
Education
September 1965 - September 1973
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Publications (23)
In South Africa, the Russian Revolution was admired by socialists and nationalists alike. The National Party soon stopped praising the Bolsheviks, but the effect of the Revolution on the nascent Communist Party was important and lasting. South African communists closely watched developments in Soviet Russia and established relations with the Commun...
Diplomatic relations between Russia and South Africa were established in 1992, before South Africa's transition to democracy was completed. This move was perceived as a betrayal by many in both countries and beyond. For many decades the Soviet Union supported the African National Congress in its fight against the apartheid regime. South Africa's Na...
The book is a study of the history of relations between Russia and South Africa in the 20th century. It covers relations between the Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International, relations between the two countries during the Second Word Was, Soviet assistance to the South African Communist Party and to the ANC's armed struggle,...
In this article I look into the Soviet roots of the official policy and ideology of the African National Congress (ANC) – the National Democratic Revolution. The article deals with the evolution of the Soviet theory of the national liberation movement, with the history of its adoption first by the South African Communist Party (SACP) and then by th...
Over two decades ago, after De Klerk’s famous speech of 2 February 1990, announcing the formal end of apartheid, journalists started to speak of the ‘South African miracle’ – the almost unthinkable possibility of a peaceful transition to a democratic future in a united society. Not every black South African was happy about the fact that, after long...
RUSSIA AND AFRICA Rossia i Africa. Dokumenty i materialy. XVIII v. – 1960. T. I. XVIII v. – 1917. (Russia and Africa. Documents and Materials. XVIII – 1960. Vol. I. XVIII – 1917). Edited by APOLLON B. DAVIDSON, RUFINA R. VIATKINA and GEORGY V. TSYPKIN. Moscow: Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999. Pp. 285. No price given...
For two decades, during the 1920s and 1930s, hundreds of communists and representatives of national‐liberation movements from all over the world came to Moscow to study at “Communist Universities"‐ educational institutions which were created, funded and controlled by the Communist International, an international communist organisation which united...
Nation-Formation and Nation Building, the ANC discussion document released this July deals with such crucial issues for South Africa as the nationality question and the nature of the nation. It has provoked much less debate than it deserves - surprisingly so, for it is one of the few documents that lays an ideological foundation for the policy of t...
