Scholar - Women Also Know History

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Keywords: Russian/Soviet, memory, war, childhood, transnational, communism, gender

About Me: Lisa Kirschenbaum writes and teaches about modern Russia and the Soviet Union, war and memory, international communism, and gender in modern Europe. Her books focus on questions of how individuals – children who grew up in the wake of the Russian Revolution, survivors of the siege of Leningrad – came to represent their life stories as part of history. Her most recent book, International Communism and the Spanish Civil War, explores the personal and political lives of international communists. It was awarded the 2016 Heldt Prize by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies for best book by a woman in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. Her current project explores the relations between Russian Americans and the Soviet Union.

Recent Publications: Editor and translator of Olga Berggolts, Daytime Stars: A Poet’s Memoir of Revoltuion, the Siege of Leningrad, and the Thaw. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, August 2018.
International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. (Paperback 2018.) Awarded Heldt Prize, 2016, Best Book by a Woman in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories and Monuments. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (Paperback, 2009.)
Chatterjee, Choi, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, and Deborah Fields. Russia’s Long Twentieth Century: Contested Voices, Memories, and Perspectives, 1894-2008. New York: Routledge, 2016.