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
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- The Holocaust and European History Culture
- 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 (6)
- Sniegon, T. (accepted/in press). From state terror to international conflict : A place of memory: Katyn as a foreign policy tool of Putin's Russia. AREI: Journal for Central and Eastern European History and Politics.
- 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. (2022). Iron or Rustproof Felix? : Felix Dzerzhinsky as a symbol of revolutionary fanaticism, trivialization of injustice and dubious democracy in the Soviet era and post-Soviet Russia. Czech Journal of Contemporary History, 29, 801-824. Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
- 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
- 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
- ÖCKK01, Central and Eastern European Studies: Level 3 - B. A. Course
- ÖCKR03, Theory and Methodology of Area 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