Manager of RRU
Manager of RRU, European Studies
Senior Lecturer
- European Studies
- Central and Eastern European Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Manager of Research and Research Education
- Central and Eastern European Studies
- European Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Reader
- European Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail tomas.sniegoneu.luse
Phone +46 46 222 33 93
Room SOL:A326
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am a historian and Senior Lecturer in European Studies. My research focuses on memory of traumatic events of the 20th Century in Central and East European historical cultures and on development of Communism in Europe. I work on a project with the title “Making Sense of the ”Good” Soviet Communist Dictatorship Through Stalin´s Terror, Khrushchev´s Reforms and Brezhnev´s Period of Stagnation. A historical narrative by the former KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny.” It has been supported by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. I am also grateful to the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University for their support.The project is based on my interviews with Vladimir Semichastny (1924-2001), whom I met in Moscow on numerous occasions between the years 1993 and 1999. The book is under contract with Yale University Press.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Making Sense of "Good" Soviet Communist Dictatorship Through Stalin´s Terror, Khrushchev´s Reforms and Brezhnev´s Period of Stagnation
- Making Sense of the Soviet Communist Dictatorship and the Cold War Through Stalin´s Terror, Khrushchev´s Reforms and Brezhnev´s Period of Stagnation (research leader)
- Rethinking Regional Studies: the Baltic-Black Sea Connection
Books (4)
- Sniegon, T. (2017). Zmizelá historie : Holocaust v české a slovenské historic kultuře. Argo.
- Sniegon, T. (2014). Vanished History : The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture. Making Sense of History, 18. Berghahn Books.
- Sniegon, T. (2008). DEN FÖRSVUNNA HISTORIEN. Förintelsen i tjeckisk och slovakisk historiekultur. Lunds Universitet - University of Lund. Dissertation.
- Sniegon, T. & Semichastny, V. (1998). Lubjanka, III. patro: svědectví předsedy KGB z let 1961-1967 Vladimíra Semičastného. Dauphin, Praha.
Articles (4)
- Sniegon, T. (accepted/in press). Getting Ready to Fight the Dissidents : KGB, ideological subversion and Soviet intellectuals during the late Khrushchev era. Journal of Cold War Studies. MIT Press.
- Sniegon, T. (2018). Umírání v sovětském Gulagu pro budoucí slávu matky Rusi? : „Vlastenecký“ výklad Gulagu v současném Rusku. Pamet a dejiny, 3, 3-13.
- Sniegon, T. (2014). Pamięć, historia, sens. Tematyka Zagłady na tle wydarzeń powojennych we współczesnej literaturze i kinematografii czeskiej. Zaglada Zydow, 931-942. Holocaust. Studies and Materials (10/2014).
- Sniegon, T. (2009). Historie ve znovuzrozené volné soutezi. Dejiny-Teorie-Kritika, 2009, 201-231. Charles University.
Book chapters (12)
- Fedor, J. & Sniegon, T. (2020). The Butovskii Shooting Range : History of an Unfinished Museum. In Norris, S. (Ed.) Museums of Communism : New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe. University of Indiana Press.
- Sniegon, T. (2018). Железный Феликс с золотым сердцем? : Культ Феликса Дзержинского и «доброй ЧК» во времена борьбы с «культом личности». Уроки Октября и практики советской системы. 1920-1950-е годы. Politichaskaya Entsyklopedia. Rosspen.
- Sniegon, T. (2018). Dying in the Soviet Gulag for the Future Glory of Mother Russia? : Making “Patriotic” Sense of the Gulag in Present-Day Russia. In Törnquist-Plewa, B. & Bernsand, N. (Eds.) Eurasian Studies Library, Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin's Russia, 11. Brill.
- Sniegon, T. (2017). Од "внутренних эмигрантов" к диссидентам: советские нонконформистские культурные элиты во второй половине 1950-х - первой половине 1960-х годов. Культура и власть в СССР 1920-1950-е годы : Материалы IX международной научной конференции, 311-318. Politichaskaya Entsyklopedia. Rosspen.
- Sniegon, T. (2016). Властолюбивые комсомольцы? : Конфликт политических поколений в коммунистическом руководстве СССР в середине 60-х годов. После Сталина : Реформы 1950-х годов в контексте советской и постсоветской истории. Материалы VIII Международной научной конференции. Екатеринбург 2015. История Сталинизма.. Politichaskaya Entsyklopedia. Rosspen.
- Sniegon, T. (2016). Between Old Animosity and New Mourning : Meanings of Czech Post-Communist Memorials of Mass Killings of the Sudeten Germans. In Törnquist-Plewa, B. (Eds.) Studies in Contemporary European History, Whose Memory? Which Future? : Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe (pp. 49-72), 18. Berghahn Books.
- Sniegon, T. (2016). World War I and its Meanings in Czech and Slovak Societies. In Suchoples, J. & James, S. (Eds.) Re-visiting World War I : Interpretations and Perspectives of the Great Conflict (pp. 295-314). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sniegon, T. (2015). Evropeizace holocaustu a česká národní identita. In Šustrová, R. & Hédlová, L. (Ed.) Česká paměť : národ, dějiny a místa paměti (pp. 81-109). Academia.
- Sniegon, T. (2013). Implementing Post-Communist National Memory in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In Mithander, C. & Sundholm, J. (Eds.) European cultural memory post-89 (pp. 97-124). Rodopi.
- Sniegon, T. (2011). Looking back, going forward : Czech and Slovak dominant historical narratives of ´the long 1990s´. In Törnquist-Plewa, B. & Stala, K. (Eds.) Cultural Transformations After Communism : Central and Eastern Europe in Focus. (pp. 180-213). Nordic Academic Press.
- Sniegon, T. (2006). Schindler´s List Comes to Schindler´s Homeland. In Karlsson, K.-G. & Ulf, Z. (Eds.) The holocaust on post-war battlefields : genocide as historical culture (pp. 161-190). Sekel Bokförlag.
- Sniegon, T. (2003). Their Genocide, or Ours? : The Holocaust as a Litmus Test of Czech and Slovak Identities. In Klas-Göran, K. & Ulf, Z. (Eds.) Echoes of the Holocaust (pp. 177-200). Nordic Academic Press.
Reviews (3)
- Sniegon, T. (2020). Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics, by Graeme Gill. English Historical Review, 135, 730-731. Oxford University Press.
- Sniegon, T. (2019). The Gulag Memory : The Sites and Places of Commemoration. Baltic Worlds, 95-96. CBEES.
- Sniegon, T. (2018). As Brezhnev Saw It. Diaries of a "stable decline" in three volumes. Baltic Worlds, XI:2-3, 116-118. CBEES.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (2)
- Sniegon, T. (2022). Russia’s denial of responsibility for atrocities in Bucha recalls 50 years of lies over the Katyn massacre. The Conversation.
- Sniegon, T. (2020). Mellan sovjetisk skam och rysk "patriotism" : Den rysk-polska minnesplatsen Katyn. Historielärarnas Förenings Årsskrift, 2020, 112-125. Historielärarnas förening, Historielärarnas förening.
Newspaper articles (1)
Miscellaneous (1)
Administrative
- Manager of Research and Research Education at Central and Eastern European Studies and European Studies
- Member, Board of Section 5, Centre for Languages and Literature
Teaching
- EUHA24, European Studies: Regions of Europe - Eastern and Central Europe in Focus
- EUHK30, European Studies: Bachelor Course
- EUHR14, European Studies: Theory and Methodology
- EUHR18, European Studies: Master's (Two Years) Thesis
- RYSK03, Russian: Level 4 - B. A. Course
- RYSK12, Russian: Specialisation II
- ÖCKB06, Nationalism and Communism in Central Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary)
- ÖCKB07, Central and Eastern European Studies: Central Europe since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
- ÖCKB14, Politics, Culture and Identity in Russia, Ukraine and Other Post-Soviet States
Senior Lecturer
- European Studies
- Central and Eastern European Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Manager of Research and Research Education
- Central and Eastern European Studies
- European Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Reader
- European Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail tomas.sniegoneu.luse
Phone +46 46 222 33 93
Room SOL:A326
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20