Martin Beisswenger

Entered Notre Dame: Fall 2002
Advisor:
Gary Hamburg

Interests
Modern European history, especially Russian and East European intellectual history

Dissertation
"Inventing Eurasia: The Life and Ideas of Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii (1895-1968)"

Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Notre Dame (2003-2005)

  • The Collapse of European Communism (Laura Crago)
    Western Civilization II (Thomas Kselman and Troy Feay)
    19th & 20th Century Polish History (Laura Crago)
    The Holocaust (Doris Bergen)

Recent Publications 

Review of Russia between East and West. Scholarly Debates on Eurasianism, ed. by Dmitry Shlapentokh. In: H-Soz-u-Kult, 13.01.2009, <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2009-1-027>.

Review of Die eurasische Bewegung:Wissenschaft und Politik in der russischen Emigration der Zwischenkriegszeit und im postsowjetischen Russland, by Stefan Wiederkehr. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 56, no. 4 (2008): 624-626.

Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii (1895-1968): A Bibliography of his Published Works. Prague: Slavonic Library, 2008 (= Bibliografie Slovanské knihovny, vol. 72).

"Metafizika Evrazii." Russkoe slovo [Prague], no. 5 (2008, June): 14-17.
Electronic version: http://www.ruslo.cz/articles/170/

"Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii (1895-1968): slavianovedenie kak religioznyi poisk." In Rossiiskie uchenye-gumanitarii v mezhvoennoi Chekhoslovakii. Sbornik statei, ed. M.Iu. Dostal'. Moscow: Institut slavianovedeniia RAN, 2008: 242-248.

Review of Put Rusije: evrazijsko stanoviste by Milan Subotic. Ab Imperio no. 1 (2008): 360-366.

“Eurasianism Then and Now: A Russian Conservative Movement and Its Ukrainian
Challenge.” In Ukraine, the EU and Russia: History, Culture and International
Relations, ed. Stephen Velychenko, 27-51. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.


"Reviewing Masaryk: The International Response to T.G. Masaryk's The Spirit of Russia." In: Prague Perspectives (I). Ed. Petr Roubal and Vaclav Veber. Prague: National Library of the Czech Republic, Slavonic Library, 2004: 193-216 (co-author Petr Roubal)

"'Konservativnaia revoliutsiia' v Germanii i dvizhenie 'evraziitsev' - tochki soprikosnoveniia," [The Conservative Revolution, in Germany and the 'Eurasianist' Movement - Points of Contact] In: Konservatizm v Rossii i v mire [Conservatism in Russia and in the World]. Vol. 3. Ed. A.Iu. Minakov. Voronezh: Voronezhskii gosudarstvennyi universiteta, 2004: 49-73.

"Life and Scientific Activity of N.P. Kondakov in Emigration," In Zarubezhnye slavyane v proshlom i nastoyashchem [The Slavs Abroad: Past and Present]. Ed. L.P. Lapteva. Moscow: Dialog-MGU, 1999: 165-183 (in Russian)

"Rusko a Evropa a svet." In: TGM, Rusko a Evropa. Ed. V. Veber. Prague: Masarykuv ustav, 2002: 267-289 (co-author: Petr Roubal)

Contact
Email:beisswenger.1@nd.edu
Website:http://www.nd.edu/~mbeisswe