Publications

Selected publications, grouped as in the CV.

Books and monographs — in English

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    Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American–Russian Relations
    David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, and Victoria I. Zhuravleva
    2025
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    Battle for the Past: How Politics Rewrites History
    Ivan Kurilla
    2025
    Translation of the Russian original (Alpina, 2022; Politprosvet award shortlist).
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    Echoes of the American Civil War Abroad: Perceptions, Identities, and Historical Memory
    Sep 2026
    Forthcoming.
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    Americans and All the Rest: Identity and Foreign Policy in U.S. History
    Ivan Kurilla
    Jun 2026
    English translation of the Russian original (Alpina, 2024; Prosvetitel award for best non-fiction book in Russian, 2024). Forthcoming.
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    Carl W. Ackerman, Trailing the Bolsheviki: Twelve Thousand Miles with the Allies in Siberia
    2020
    Edited and annotated by Ivan Kurilla. New edition, Anthem Press, 2025.
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    Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia: Mutual Representations in Academic Projects
    2016

Books and monographs — in Russian

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    Американцы и все остальные: Истоки и смысл внешней политики США [Americans and All the Rest: Origins and Meaning of U.S. Foreign Policy]
    Ivan Kurilla
    2024
    Prosvetitel award for the best non-fiction book in Russian, 2024.
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    Битва за прошлое: Как политика меняет историю [Battle for the Past: How Politics Changes History]
    Ivan Kurilla
    2022
    Politprosvet award shortlist, 2022.
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    Заклятые друзья: История мнений, фантазий, контактов, взаимо(не)понимания России и США [Sworn Friends: A History of Opinions, Fantasies, Contacts, and Mutual (Mis)understanding between Russia and the United States]
    Ivan Kurilla
    2018
    Prosvetitel award longlist, 2018.
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    История, или Прошлое в настоящем [History, or The Past in the Present]
    Ivan Kurilla
    2017
    Prosvetitel award shortlist, 2017.
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    Заокеанские партнеры: Америка и Россия в 1830–1850-е годы [Overseas Partners: America and Russia in the 1830s–1850s]
    Ivan Kurilla
    2005
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    «Войти в круг великих держав…»: Дэниел Вебстер и внешняя политика США в середине XIX века [Joining the Circle of Great Powers: Daniel Webster and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Mid-19th Century]
    Ivan Kurilla
    1997

Recent articles and book chapters in English

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    Understanding the Immortal Regiment: Memory Dualism in a Social Movement
    Ivan Kurilla
    Europe-Asia Studies, 2023
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    Evaluating the Demise of the Soviet Union
    Archie Brown, Thomas W. Simons, Andrea Graziosi, and 3 more authors
    Journal of Cold War Studies, 2023
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    Russia and the US in the Mirrors of Academic Research
    Ivan Kurilla
    Arei: Journal for Central and Eastern European History and Politics, 2022
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    History as a Political Language
    Ivan Kurilla
    In Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe: Infested with History, 2025
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    Presentism, Politicization of History, and the New Role of the Historian in Russia
    Ivan Kurilla
    In The Future of the Soviet Past: The Politics of History in Putin’s Russia, 2021
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    Debates about Russia, America, and New World Order: Four Books from the 1850s
    Ivan Kurilla
    Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 4, Istoriya. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2021
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    Reusing Soviet History Books: The Role of World War II in Russian Domestic Politics and Academia
    Ivan Kurilla
    The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 2020
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    Allied Intervention from Russia’s Perspective: Modern-Day Interpretations
    Ivan Kurilla
    The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 2019
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    George Frost Kennan and Russian-American Relations
    Ivan Kurilla
    In A Kennan for Our Times: Revisiting America’s Greatest 20th Century Diplomat in the 21st Century, 2019
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    Russia, Trump, and the United States: The Uses of the Other in a Political Crisis
    Ivan Kurilla
    In The New World Disorder: Challenges and Threats in an Uncertain World, 2019
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    Russia’s View on Obama’s Presidency: From Hope to Disappointment
    Ivan Kurilla and Victoria I. Zhuravleva
    In The World Views of the Obama Era: From Hope to Disillusionment, 2018

Select edited volumes (in Russian)

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    Россия двухтысячных: стереоскопический взгляд [Russia in the 2000s: A Stereoscopic View]
    2011
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    Россия и США на страницах учебников: опыт взаимных репрезентаций [Russia and the U.S. in Textbooks: Mutual Representations]
    2009
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    Демократия или авторитаризм? Становление новых политических режимов в Европе в XIX–XX веках [Democracy or Authoritarianism? The Emergence of New Political Regimes in Europe in the 19th–20th Centuries]
    2008
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    Международная интеграция российских регионов [International Integration of Russian Regions]
    2007
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    Волгоградский исторический семинар [Volgograd History Workshop] — 5 volumes
    2008
    Series edited by Ivan Kurilla: История края как поле конструирования региональной идентичности [History of the Region as a Field for Constructing Regional Identity] (2008); Судьба исторической науки в современной Восточной Европе [The Fate of Historical Scholarship in Contemporary Eastern Europe] (2009); Память и памятники [Memory and Monuments] (2012); Кто боится учебника истории? [Who Is Afraid of the History Textbook?] (2013); Историческая разметка пространства и времени [Historical Markings of Space and Time] (2014).
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    AMERICANA: Annual collection of articles on American history, politics, and culture (bilingual)
    2008
    Editor of vols. 10–16 (2008–2021).

Translation projects

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    Большое шоу в стране большевиков [The Big Show in Bololand]
    Bertrand Patenaude
    2024
    Editor of the Russian translation of Bertrand Patenaude’s Big Show in Bololand.
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    Родословная абсолютистского государства [Lineages of the Absolutist State]
    Perry Anderson
    2010
    Translator into Russian of Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State.