Semion LyandresSemion Lyandres

Associate Professor of History
(PhD, Stanford University, 1992)
453 Decio
574-631-3853
email: slyandre@nd.edu
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/lyandres-semion/

Geographic focus: Russia; Eastern Europe

Thematic interests: Modern Russian history; politics and intellectual origins of modern revolutions; dynamics of post-communist societies; the relation of democratization in post-Soviet Russia to modern political constitutions and market-based economics.

Current research: The problem of legitimacy in late Imperial and early revolutionary Russia, especially as it relates to the origins and politics of the Provisional (revolutionary) Government.

Selected publications: The Bolshevik's German Gold Revisited: An inquirs into the 1917 Accusations (The Carl Beck Series in Russia and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh,1995); co-Author, A Chronicle of the Civil War in Siberia and Exile in China: The Diaries of Petr Vasil'evich Vologodskii, 1918-1925 (Hoover Institution Press: Stanford, CA, 2002), in 2 volumes., compiled, edited and introduced in collaboration with Dietmar Wulff.

Selected videos:
http://video.nd.edu/163-notre-dame-expert-vladimir-putin-and-his-plan-for-power 11/09/2007