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Mark Edele

Mark Edele is a historian who studies the Soviet Union. He is the inaugural Hansen Professor at the University of Melbourne. According to Karel C. Berkhoff, Edele is "a highly regarded specialist of the Soviet Union during World War II".

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Mark Edele is a historian who studies the Soviet Union.1 He is the inaugural Hansen Professor at the University of Melbourne. According to Karel C. Berkhoff, Edele is "a highly regarded specialist of the Soviet Union during World War II".2

Works

  • Edele, Mark (2008). Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941–1991. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-160808-7.345678
  • Edele, Mark (2011). Stalinist Society: 1928–1953. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-161367-8.9101112
  • Edele, Mark (2017). Stalin's Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers Became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941–1945. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879815-6.13141516172
  • Edele, Mark (2019). The Soviet Union: A Short History. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-13116-8.
  • Edele, Mark (2020). Debates on Stalinism. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-4895-7.
  • Edele, Mark (2021). Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-3501-5351-6.
  • Edele, Mark (2023). Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 978-0-5228-7983-4.
References

References

  1. "Mark Edele". Mark Edele. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  2. Berkhoff, Karel C. (2018). "Stalin's Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941–1945. By Mark Edele. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xvi, 205 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $80.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 77 (4): 1107–1108. doi:10.1017/slr.2018.341. S2CID 226954661.
  3. Moine, Nathalie (2009). "Soviet Veterans of the Second World War, Mark EDELE, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008, 336 p." Cahiers du monde russe. 50 (50/2–3). doi:10.4000/monderusse.9769.
  4. Thatcher, Ian D. (2010). "Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in An Authoritarian Society 1941–1991 – By Mark Edele: REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES". History. 95 (317): 140–141. doi:10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.00476_47.x.
  5. "Mark Edele: Soviet Veterans of the Second World War. A popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941–1991 (reviewed by Carmen Scheide)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Behrends, Jan C. (2013). "Mark Edele. Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941–1991. Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, 334 p.". Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 68 (2): 612–613. doi:10.1017/S0395264900012853. S2CID 166741776.
  7. Smith, Mark B. (2011). "Review of Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, Edele, Mark". The Slavonic and East European Review. 89 (1): 174–176. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.89.1.0174. ISSN 0037-6795.
  8. King, Francis (2011). "Book Review: Mark Edele, Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society 1941—1991, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008; x + 334 pp.; 9780199237562, £58.00 (hbk)". European History Quarterly. 41 (3): 521–522. doi:10.1177/02656914110410030413. S2CID 144811242.
  9. Main, Steven J. (2012). "Stalinist Society 1928–1953". Europe-Asia Studies. 64 (6): 1143–1144. doi:10.1080/09668136.2012.691384. S2CID 153384901.
  10. Waterlow, Jonathan (2012). "Stalinist Society, 1928–1953 - By Mark Edele: REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES". History. 97 (327): 525–528. doi:10.1111/j.1468-229X.2012.00561_31.x.
  11. Brandenberger, D. (2012). "Stalinist Society, 1928–1953, by Mark Edele". The English Historical Review. 127 (529): 1585–1587. doi:10.1093/ehr/ces264.
  12. Hoffmann, David L. (2012). "Stalinist Society, 1928–1953. By Mark Edele. Oxford Histories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. x, 367 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $99.00, hard bound. $35.00, paper". Slavic Review. 71 (4): 946–947. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.71.4.0946. S2CID 164921879.
  13. Langerbein, Helmut (2019). "Stalin's Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941–45Mark Edele". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 33 (1): 130–132. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcz015.
  14. "Stalin's Defectors by Mark Edele – from Red Army soldiers to Hitler's collaborators". the Guardian. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  15. Dale, R. (2018). "Review of Stalin's Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941–1945, Edele, Mark". The Slavonic and East European Review. 96 (4): 793–795. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.96.4.0793. ISSN 0037-6795.
  16. Slepyan, Kenneth (2020). "Stalin's Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers Became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941–1945 . By Mark Edele.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv+206. $81.00. Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II . By Johannes Due Enstad. New Studies in European History. Edited by Peter Baldwin et al.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+256. $99.00". The Journal of Modern History. 92 (2): 479–482. doi:10.1086/708598.
  17. Reese, Roger R. (2018). "Mark Edele. Stalin's Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers Became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941–1945". The American Historical Review. 123 (4): 1429–1430. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhy170.