Jeffrey
Burds
Associate
Professor of Russian & Soviet History
Office: 269 Holmes Hall
Mailing: 249
j.burds@neu.edu
Phone: (617) 373-2079 Fax: (617) 373-2661
Curriculum Vitae
Associate,
Co-Director, Center for the Study of
Office Hours:
Wednesdays, 11:00-1:15, or by appt
Fields of Interest:
Modern Russian and Soviet History; 20th-century Ukraine;
Soviet secret police, Espionage
I do research in the international history of
modern
Courses:
All syllabi are
available on-line. Most on-line readings are password protected to comply with
U.S. laws on fair use of copyrighted materials.
Spring 2013
HIST7314 Research Seminar: Advanced
Historical Research
Wednesdays,
5-8 p.m.
HIST2304 Cold War Spies
Monday, Thursday
11:45-1:25 p.m.
HONR3310 A History of Spies, Spying
& Covert Operations
Monday & Wednesday
2:50-4:30 p.m.
Summer One 2013
HIST1389 History of Espionage
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11:40-1:20
p.m.
HONR3310 Honors
Seminar: Cold War Spies
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 1:30-3:10 p.m.
Summer Two 2013
HIST2387 Soviet
Secret Police
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11:40-1:20 p.m.
Autumn 2013
HIST1389 Lecture: History of
Espionage
Monday, Thursday 11:45-1:25 p.m.
HIST4701 Capstone Seminar
HONR3310 Cold War Spies
Wednesdays 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Spring 2013
HIST2387 Lecture: Soviet Secret
Police
Monday, Thursday 11:45-1:25 p.m.
HNR1205 Spy Wars: A History of Covert
Operations in World War II
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
1:35-2:40 p.m.
HIST1201
First-Year History Seminar: History of Violence
Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:50-4:30
p.m.
Other
courses
HIST1170 The Shape of Modernity
HIST2213 History of Violence
HIST2286 History of the Soviet Union
HIST2388 Borderlands: World War II in Soviet Eastern Europe
HIST7203 Topics in Soviet History
Borderlands: World War II in
Soviet Eastern Europe
HIST7302 Research Seminar in Soviet History
HIST7314 Research Seminar in World History
HIST3305 European Social History, 1650-1850
HIST3390 Research Seminar in Russian History
Representative
Publications:
The Second Oldest Profession: A World History of Espionage (Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, Inc., 2011-2012). Part One, Part Two. For details, see the Modern Scholar Series.
Шпионаж
и национализм:
первые
годы
холодной
войны на
Западной
Украине (1944-1948) [Espionage
and Nationalism: The Early Years of the Cold War in Western Ukraine
(1944-1948)], (Moscow and New York: «Sovremennaia Istoriia» [Contemporary
History], 2010).
“Russian Spy Swap: Jeffrey Burds Explains,” Washington Post, Live Q&As, 8 July 2010.
"Sexual Violence
in Europe in World War II," published in a special issue on “Sexual
Violence during War” in Politics and Society (March, 2009).
"Ethnic Conflict and
Minority Refugee Flight from Post-Soviet Ukraine, 1991-2001"
The International Journal of Human Rights Volume 12, Number 5 (December
2008): 689-723.
"The Soviet War against 'Fifth Columnists:' The Case of Chechnya, 1942-1944," Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 42, Number 2 (April 2007).
Советская агентура: очерки истории СССР в послевоенные годы, 1944-1948 [Soviet Police Informants: Essays on the History of the USSR during the Postwar Years, 1944-1948] (Moscow and New York: «Sovremennaia Istoriia» [Contemporary History], 2006).
"Ukraine:
the Meaning of Persecution,"
"Ethnicity,
Memory, and Violence: Reflections on Special Problems in Soviet & East
European Archives," in Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg,
eds., Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of Social Memory: Essays
from the Sawyer Seminar (
"'Москальки':
женщины-агенты и националистическое подполье на Западной Украине,
1944-1948," [Moskal'ki: Women-Agents and the Nationalist
Underground in West Ukraine, 1944-1948], Социальная История.
Ежегодник
2004 [Social History—Yearbook 2004] (
"Gender and Policing in Soviet West Ukraine, 1944-1948, " Cahiers du Monde Russe Volume 42, Numbers 2-4 (April-December 2001).
The Early Cold War in Soviet West Ukraine, 1944-1948, Number 1505 in The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2001).
"Борьба
с
бандитизмом
в СССР в 1944-1953 гг." [The Struggle Against Banditry in the
Peasant Dreams and
Market Politics: Labor Migration & the
"AGENTURA: Soviet Informants' Networks in Galicia, 1944-1948," Eastern European Politics and Societies (January 1997).
With S. V. Prasolova, A. K. Sokolov, and E. A. Tiurina. The Russian State Archive of Economics: A Research Guide. 2. Guide to Collections. Volume II, Part 2 in The Russian Archive Series, University of Pittsburgh. In Russian and English (Moscow-Pittsburgh, 1996).
The Russian State Archive: A Researcher's Guide. Compiled, introduced and edited by S.V. Mironenko and Jeffrey Burds. Volume IV in The Russian Archive Series, University of Pittsburgh. In Russian and English (Moscow-Pittsburgh, 1996).
"A Culture of Denunciation: Patterns of Religious Anathematization in Rural Russia, 1860-1905," in Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately, eds., Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989 (University of Chicago Press, 1997) and the Journal of Modern History (December 1996).
The Russian State Archive of Economics: A Researcher's Guide. compiled, introduced and edited by Svetlana Prasolova, Andrei Sokolov, William Chase and Jeffrey Burds. Volume II, Parts 1 and 2 in The Russian Archive Series, University of Pittsburgh. The Russian and English (Moscow-Pittsburgh, 1994, 1996).
"The Social Control of Peasant Labor in Russia: The Responses of Village Communities to labor Migration in the Central Industrial Region, 1861-1905," in Peasant Economy, Culture and Politics in European Russia, 1800-1921, edited by Esther Kingston-Mann and Timothy R. Mixter, with the Assistance of Jeffrey Burds (Princeton University Press, 1991).