Semion Lyandres
Title
Associate Professor; Faculty Fellow of Kellogg and Nanovic Institutes; Co-Director of the Program in Russian and East European Studies
Graduate Program Field
European History
Specialization
Modern Russia
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University
Research and Teaching Interests
Lyandres' current research focuses on the problem of legitimacy in early revolutionary Russia, especially as it relates to the origins and politics of the Provisional (revolutionary) Government.
Profile
Semion Lyandres is the founder and North American editor of the international series Modern and Contemporary Russian History: Monographs and Documents and is also one of the two editors of the Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography. His publications include: The Bolshevik's German Gold Revisited: An Inquiry into the 1917 Accusations (1995); The Memoirs of Alexander Guchkov, President of the State Duma and a Minister of War in the Provisional Government (1993), with A. V. Smolin; A Chronicle of the Civil War in Siberia and Exile in China: The Diaries of Petr Vasil'evich Vologodskii, 1918-1925 (2002), in 2 volumes (with Dietmar Wulff). He has held major fellowships from the German-American Academic Council Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, the NEH, and the Earhart Foundation; and has published articles and essays in The Slavic Review, Kritika, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Russian History, Berliner Jahrbuch für osteuropaische Geschichte, and Otechestvennaia istoriia.
Contact Information
Office: 453 Decio Faculty Hall
Phone: (574) 631-3853
Email: Semion.Lyandres.1@nd.edu
Mailing Address:
219 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556