Academic Positions

Spring 2000: Visiting Professor, Mansfield University, Pennsylvania, and USA

1995 - 2002: Chair, Department of Regional Studies and International Relations, Volgograd State University, Russia

1995 – present: Executive Director, Center for American Studies AMERICANA, Volgograd State University, Russia

1982 - present: Professor of History and International Relations, Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia. Tenured May 1982; Promoted to Associate Professor September 1984; Promoted to Full Professor June 1996

1978-1982: Assistant Professor of History, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia

1974-1978: Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, Leningrad Institute of International Labor Movement and International Relations.

Consulting Position

1993-95: Assistant to Volgograd Deputy to State Duma, Russian Federation.

Conferences and presentations

October 2004 Conference RACS "Canada: A Look from Russia" (Institute of USA and Canada, Moscow, Russia): "The development of the conception of National Security in Canada"

October 2004 Regional Fulbright Conference "The American Ideas in the Siberian research" (Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia): "The Frontier Theory and the Problems of Russian-American comparative Studies in History"

September 2004: Round Table "J.W.Fulbright and Russian -American Relations in Historical Retrospective"(Volgograd State university): "J.W.Fulbright .,American Intellectuals and the "Second Discovery of America"

September 2004 "Open Russia"seminar (Volgograd): "Democracy, Federalism and Local government ( The North American Experience and Current Russian Realities)"

June 2004 Cennan Institute Conference (Moscow) "Russian American Relations ": "American Intellectuals, the Cold War and University"

May 2004: Annual conference of RACS(Moscow, Institute of USA&Canada RAS

"Canadian Studies in Volgograd State university"

April 2004, International conference "Old and New Borders in Eurazia and North America"(Volgograd State university): "A Smart Borders conseption in Canada -US relations"

February 2004, Seminar "Canada within North American Community" (Volgograd State University): "An Antiamericanism in Contemporary Canada"

December 2003, Tenth Seminar on American Sudies (Nigny Novgorod State University): "Roman Rosen and Russian-American Relations at the beginning of XXth Century"

December 2003, Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russia):"Public Administration in the Structure of Business Education"

November 2003, "American Studies on the Post Soviet Academic Environment" (Volgograd State University, Russia): "An American University and Intellectual Community"

October 2003, J. William Fulbright Alumni Conference, Saint-Petersburg, Russia:

"J.William Fulbright and American Intellectual Community"

September 2003, Mansfield University (Mansfield, PA): "A Totalitarian Syndrome in the Post-Soviet Russia"

September 2003, Stetson University (De Land, FL): "Political Development of Contemporary Russia and Russian-American Relations"

September 2003, University Of Central Florida (Orlando, FL): "Main Features of Current Political Process in Contemporary Russia"

September 2003, Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA): "Russian University and the problems of current period in Russia"

September 2003, Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA): "Russian -American Relations after the Cold War"

June 2003, US Department of State: "Russian System of Higher Education during Transition"

May 2003, Kennan Institute, Washington, DC: "University in the structure of Civil Society"

May 2003, Russian Cultural Center, Washington, DC: "Russian University in the process of it modernization"

February 2003, Seminar "The Problems of study of International relations", Ivanovo State University: "The problems of teaching of the history of International Relations and Foreign Policy in Volgograd State University"

February 2003, 60^th Anniversary of Stalingrad Battle Conference, Volgograd State University: "Stalingrad Battle and the American nations during WW II"

February 2003, Round table in the Center of North American Studies. Institute of General History, Moscow: "American Studies in Volgograd State University"

December 2002, The Conference devoted to Georgy Chicherin, Tambov State University, Tambov, Russia: " The American Theme in the diplomatic activity of Georgy Chicherin"

November 2002, International Seminar: "The Problems of European Security System", Volgograd Academy of State Service, Volgograd, Russia: "The Russian- American Relations in the context of the European Political Development"

November 2002, The International Conference "Russia and the East: The problems of Cooperation", Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia: "The Factor of the East in the Russian model of anti-Americanism"

November 2002, International Seminar "The Problems of Canadian Studies in Russia", Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia: "The Canadian University in the Structure of Contemporary Civic Society"

October 2002, International Seminar "Russian-American Relations in the context of the problem 9.11", Nijny Novgorod State University, Nijny Novgorod, Russia: "Russia-US Relations in the Context of the Regional Policy"

September 2002, Russian National Philosophical Congress "Rationalism and Culture at the beginning of the new Millenium", Rostov-on Don, Russia: "Philosophy of an American University"

June 2002, Russian - American International Seminar "National and international as a Basement for Cultures Dialogue", Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia: "Multiculturalism and Academic Freedom inside American University"

May 2002, International Conference "The Russian West Syberia and Central Asia: New Regional Identity, Economy and Security", Altay State University, Barnaul, Russia: "The US Borderland Policy Experience in the Context of the New Russian Border 's Security Problems"

April 2002, The Second Fulbright Conference in Russia, Yaroslavl, Russia: “The University Professor in Front of the Challenges of our Time”

February 2002, International Seminar “Problems of Immigrants and Refugees Integration into European Community", Odessa, Ukraine: “Intellectual Migration as a Humanitarian Problem”

November 2001, International Seminar “The Response to the Challenge of the International Terrorism”, Volgograd Academy of State Service, Volgograd, and Russia: “The Problem of Effectiveness of the International Security Systems in front of the Challenge of the International Terrorism”

October 2001, International Conference “Putting it on Ice” Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada: “The Hockey and Politics in Russia”

September 2001, Seminar “The Old and New Borders of the Post-Soviet States” Volgograd, Russia: “The International Experience of the Borderland Policy (US, Mexico and Canada)”

September 2001, International Conference “CIS-10th Anniversary”, Volgograd, Russia: “American factor in the Foreign Policy of the Post-Soviet States”

September2001, International Seminar “University and the Civil Society. Russian-American Experience of Cooperation”, Volgograd, Russia: “The Classic University in the Time of Globalization: Between State and Civil Society”

July 2001, International Seminar of the School of European Politics “Integration. What does It Means for Us". Volgograd, Russia: “The Integration Process in the North and South America: The Experience for Russia”

June 2001, X-th World Congress of the Federation for Latin American Studies, Moscow, Russia: 1) “The International Relations in Central America between Two World Wars”; 2) “Central America and Russia in XIX –XX centuries”

June 2001, The Kennan Institute Conference “Russia-2001: The New Tendencies of the Political, Economical and Social Development”, Volgograd, Russia: “The Public Duty of the Classical University During the Transitional Epoch”

May 2001, The PONARS Conference, Nijny Novgorod, Russia: ”The Main Trends of Democratic Process in Contemporary Russia”

April 2001, The First Fulbright Conference in Russia, Moscow, Russia: “The Classical University in the Postindustrial Epoch :Russian-American Parallels”

March 2001, Volgograd Political and Cultural Association “Forum”, Volgograd, Russia: “The Roots of Anti-Americanism in Current Russia”

February 2001, Annual Conference of Local Historians, Volgograd, Russia: ”The Problems of Russian Foreign Policy on the Southern Area”

February 2001, Moscow State University, Annual Conference of Russian Association for American Studies, Moscow, Russia: “The American Studies as a Method of Overcoming of National Limitation”

March 2000, College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA: “Russian-American Relations After Yeltsin”

February 2000, Pennsylvania State University, USA: “Old and New Stereotypes: American Studies in Current Russia”

September 1999, Annual Conference of Local Historians, Volgograd, Russia: “The Geopolitical and Geoeconomical Problems of the South of Russia”

April 1999, Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria: “The Political and Cultural Environment in Current Russia”

March 1999, Annual Conference of the Russian University Association of American Studies, Moscow, Russia: “Russian and American Political Stereotypes”

December 1998, International Seminar on Problems of American Studies in Contemporary Russia, Volgograd, Russia: “The Bad and Good Features of National Character”

November 1998, Acadia University and St. Mary’s University, Canada: “Main Trends of the Current Political Situation in Russia”

September 1997, International Conference on Russian and American Historical Cooperation, Volgograd, Russia: “The Study of Russian History in American Universities”

September 1997, NATO Seminar, Volgograd, Russia: “Russian Foreign Policy and NATO”

May 1997, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA: “On the Crossroad of Current Russian Policy”

April 1997, Clarion University, Pennsylvania, USA: “The Latin American Studies in the Current Russia”

Monographs

Forthcoming 2004. Amerikanskii universitet v strukture grazhdanskogo obschestva (American University in the Civil Society). Volgograd, Volgograd State University Press

2004 A History of Latin America. Vol.4.( Moscow), (Co-author)

2002. Prozrachnuy Granittsy (Transparent Frontiers). Security and Transboudary Cooperation in Russian New Borderlands (Moscow), (Co-author)

1999. Mekhanizmy upravleniya i regulirovaniya mezhnatsionalnymi i etnokulturnymi protsessami (Handling International and Ethnocultural Processes). Cherkassy-Volgograd (Co-author)

1994. Anglo-amerikanskoe sopernichestvo v Tsentralnoi Amerike v 19 - nachale 20 veka (Anglo-American Rivalry in Central America, 19- early 20^th Century) (Saratov, Saratov State University Press).

1987. Gvatemalskaya Revolutsiya 1944-1954.(Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1954). (Saratov, Saratov State University Press)

1986. Revolutsionnoe dvizhenie v tsentralnoi Amerike i politika SShA. (Revolutionary Movement in Central America and USA Policy). (Ivanovo, Ivanovo State University Press)

Publications: Journals

About 70 articles on International Relations, Diplomatic History, Political History, and History of the USA. Including publications in such leading Russian scholarly journals as Novaya i Noveishaia Istoriya, Us-Canada , Latinskaya Amerika, Svobodnaya Mysl and others.

Editorial Positions

1997-2004. Americana, Vol . 1-6. Editor. Volgograd, Volgograd State University Press

2002-2003. Representations of Canada. Vol . 1-2. Editor. Volgograd State University Press

1999. Problemy Geoekonomicheskjgo i etnokulturnogo razvitiya Nizhnego Povolzhya v 18-20 vekakh. (Problems of Geoeconomics and Ethnopolitical Development of Lower Volga Area, 18-20^th Centuries). Editor. Volgograd, Volgograd State University

1985. Problemy mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii v novoe i noveishee vremya (Problems of International Relations in Modern Time). Editor. (Saratov, Saratov State University Press).

Ph.D. Thesis

Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1954, (Monograph, 1987)

Doctor of Science Dissertation

Anglo-American Rivalry in Central America, 19-20th Centuries, (Monograph, 1994)

Professional Associations Membership

Russian Academy of Humanities (Saint Petersburg)

Russian Association for American Studies (Moscow State University, Moscow)

Russian Association for Latin American Studies (Institute of Latin America, Moscow)

Russian Society for Canadian Studies (Institute of USA and Canada, Moscow)

Russian Association for International Studies (MGIMO, Moscow)

Russian National Philosophical Society (Moscow)

Russian Fulbright Alumni Committee

Russian Kennan Alumni Committee

International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), (London, Great Britain)

The Courses Prepared for Teaching

Contemporary Russian Politics

Contemporary Russian Foreign Policy

The History of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia

The Soviet –American Relations During the “Cold War” and After

The Soviet (Russian) Policy in Latin America

Contemporary Russian Culture

The History of Russian Philosophy

The Classical University in Russia: Its Public, Cultural and Political Functions

Grants Received

2004 - The Institute of International Education Grant

2004 - Canadian Government Grant for organization of Borderland Issues Conference

2004 - Canadian Government Grant for organization of Canadian Studies seminar

2004 - Small Grant for Russian Fulbright Alumni

2003 - USIA grant for organization of American Studies International conference

2003 - Kennan Institution Fellow (WWICS,Washington,DC)

2002 - Canadian Government grant for organization of Canadian Studies Seminar

2001 - USIA grant for organization of American Studies international seminar

2001 - Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award Program

1999 - USIA grant for organization of American Studies conference

1999 - Salzburg Seminar Grant in American Studies

1998 - International Council for Canadian Studies grants for Curriculum development in Canadian Studies

1996-1997 - Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Mansfield University, Pennsylvania, USA.