Manager of RRU

• COST - New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent

• 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
• MA Intensive Courses in European Studies

The title of my main current project is “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 is based on my interviews with Vladimir Semichastny (1924-2001), the chairman of the KGB 1961-1967 whom I met in Moscow between the years 1993 and 1999.
The aim is to analyze Semichastny´s attempt to make sense of his own political career that started at the Komsomol, continued in the Soviet Communist party structures in Moscow and in Central Asia and culminated in the KGB headquarter Lubyanka. Semichastny created a historical narrative about his political life within the Soviet Communism through Stalin´s terror, Khrushchev´s de-Stalinisation and reforms and Brezhnev´s period of stagnation. Thus, the project also deals with questions concerning the individual and social memory of the Soviet terror, with the problem of how strategies that legitimized the Soviet communist dictatorship coexisted with critical stances within the system itself and with the question of how it is possible to give a positive meaning to the Soviet communist dictatorship and at the same time not deny the worst crimes of Stalinism.

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 (3)

• 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.
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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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Sniegon, T. (2019). The Gulag Memory : The Sites and Places of Commemoration. Baltic Worlds, 95-96. CBEES.
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• Sniegon, T. (2018). As Brezhnev Saw It. Diaries of a "stable decline" in three volumes. Baltic Worlds, XI:2-3, 116-118. CBEES.
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Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)

• Sniegon, T. (2020). Mellan sovjetisk skam och rysk "patriotism" : Den rysk-polska minnesplatsen Katyn. Historielärarnas Förenings Årsskrift, 2020, 112-125. Historielärarnas förening, Historielärarnas förening.

Miscellaneous (1)

• Sniegon, T. (2019). A transformation of the Memorial Site in Katyn. Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia).
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• 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

• EUHR07, European Studies: Russia and Eastern Europe - the Present and the Past
• SASH62, Communism in East and Central Europe: Present, Past, and Future Perspectives