Jeffrey Burds

Ph.D. Yale University, 1990
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
jburds@aya.yale.edu
http://www.history.neu.edu/fac/burds/burds.html

Research Interests
Soviet counterinsurgency, Ukrainian nationalism, collaborators in World War II, postwar banditry

Current Projects
Idioms of Hate: Soviet Collaborators in the German War against “Jewish-Bolshevism,” 1941-1944

‘A Sea of Blood and Tears’: From Civil War to Cold War in Soviet Galicia, 1944-1953

Selected Publications
“Ethnicity, Memory, and Violence: Reflections on Special Problems in Soviet and East European Archives,” in William Rosenberg and Francis Blouin, eds. Archives and Social Memory: Institutions, Practices, and Political Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004).

“Gender and Policing in Soviet West Ukraine, 1944-1948,” Cahiers du Monde russe Volume 42, Number 2-4 (April-December 2001): 279-320

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).

“AGENTURA: Soviet Informants’ Networks & the Ukrainian Rebel Underground in Galicia, 1944-1948,” East European Politics and Societies Volume 11, Number 1 (Winter 1997): 89-130

Peasant Dreams & Market Politics: Labor Migration and the Russian Village, 1861-1905 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998).