Manager of RRU
Manager of RRU, European Studies
tomas.sniegoneu.luse |
2023-01-12
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 Czech-Swedish historian, associate professor in European studies at Lund University in Sweden. My research focuses on modern European history, particularly the history of Central and Eastern Europe during and after the Cold War, and the development and problems of Soviet communism and its aftermath. I have published studies and articles on the Holocaust in Czech and Slovak historical cultures, about the problems of institutionalization of historical memory and on the memory of the Soviet Gulag in present-day Russia. I am currently preparing a book based on critical analysis of my interviews with Vladimir Semichastny, chairman of the KGB from 1961 to 1967, which he had conducted in Moscow in the 1990s. The book is under contract with Yale University Press.
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