The University of Western Australia

Assoc/Prof Mark Edele

Associate Professor
History

Contact details

Address

History
The University of Western Australia (M208)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2129

Fax

6488 1069

Email

mark.edele@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 1.02, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

MA Tueb., MA PhD Chic.

Biography

Born and raised between books and mountains in Bavaria's south, Edele received much of his education in Germany (MA, University of Tübingen), learned Russian in St. Petersburg, and earned an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. In 2004, he moved to Perth to teach continental European and Russian history.

Key research

History of veterans (Soviet and comparative), German-Soviet war, historiography, Stalinism, war and post-war Soviet society

Publications

Books:

Stalinist Society 1928-1953. Part of the Oxford Histories series (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941-1991 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Selected articles:

"Stalinism as a Totalitarian Society: Geoffrey Hosking’s Socio-Cultural History," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, forthcoming vol. 13, no. 2 (April 2012).
"Militaries Compared: Wehrmacht and Red Army, 1941-45," A Companion to the Second World War, ed. Thomas Zeiler. (Blackwell, forthcoming 2012).
"Collective Action in Soviet Society: The Case of War Veterans," Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography, ed. Kiril Tomoff, Julie Hessler, and Golfo Alexopoulos (Palgrave, 2011).
“Veterans and the Welfare State: World War II in the Soviet Context,” Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 20, No. 6 (2010): 18-33.
"Veterans and the Village: Red Army Demobilization and Postwar Demography," invited contribution to Richard Hellie Festschrift, Russian history/Histoire russe 36, no. 2 (2009): 159-82.
"States of Exception: The Soviet-German War as a System of Violence, 1939-1945," (with Michael Geyer), Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick and Michael Geyer (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). Russian language edition forthcoming: Moscow, Rosspen, 2011.
"Soviet Society, Social Structure, and Everyday Life: Major Frameworks Reconsidered," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 8, No. 2 (2007), 349-73; with answer by Jean-Paul Depretto, ibid., 375-88.
"Roundtable: What Is a School? Is There a Fitzpatrick School of Soviet History?" (with David Wolff, Jonathan Bone, Matthew Lenoe, and Ronald Suny) Acta Slavica Iaponica 24 (2007).
"More than just Stalinists: The Political Sentiments of Victors 1945-1953," Late Stalinism: Society between Reinvention and Reconstruction ed. Juliane Fürst (London: Routledge, 2006).
"Soviet Veterans as an Entitlement Group, 1945-1955," Slavic Review 65, no. 1 (2006): 111-137.
"Strange Young Men in Stalin's Moscow: The Birth and Life of the Stiliagi, 1945-1953," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 50 (2002), 37-61.
"Paper Soldiers: The World of the Soldier Hero according to Soviet Wartime Posters," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 47 (1999), 90-108.

Future research

War in the East. Four Decades of Violence, 1904-1954 (book and series of articles)
"What should Soviet Society Look like?" Constitutional debate and constitutional reform in the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 (series of articles)

Languages

German, Russian, French, and a sprinkling of others

Memberships

American Historical Association (AHA)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) (AAASS)
Australasian Association of European Historians (AAEH)
Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association (ANZSA)

Teaching

Besides the new first year History course:
HIST2238: Soviet History
HIST2246: Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Historians

Research profile

Research profile and publications