Jeffrey Burds

Ph.D. Yale University, 1990
Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
j.burds@neu.edu
http://www.history.neu.edu/fac/burds/burds.html

Research Interests
World War II, Russia, Ukraine, NKVD

Current Projects
"Borderland Wars: Stalin's War against 'Fifth Columnists' on the Soviet Periphery, 1937-1953'"; A study of everyday life in German-occupied Galicia in World War II

Selected Publications
“Sexual Violence in Europe in World War II,” published in a special issue on “Sexual Violence during War” in Politics and Society, Volume 37, Number 1 (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): 265-312.

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).

“Ethnicity, Memory, and Violence: Reflections on Special Problems in Soviet and East European Archives,” in Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg, eds. Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).

“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).

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

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