Semion Lyandres
Associate Professor of History and Faculty Fellow of Kellogg and Nanovic Institutes
Profile
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992
Semion Lyandres is the founder and North American editor of the international series Modern and Contemporary Russian History: Monographs and Documents. 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, and the NEH; 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.
Lyandres is on research leave this academic year (2006/07), which he is spending as the William C. Bark National (History) Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Current Project
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.
Contact
Office: 453 Decio Faculty Hall
Phone: (574) 631-3853
Email: Semion.Lyandres.1@nd.edu
Office Hours: On Leave, 2006-2007