Mirrors, Rooms, and one Very Big Building. A conversation with Yuri Slezkine on Russian ethnographers, the historiography of the Soviet Union and Literature

• Main Author: Neves, José
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2021
• Subjects: Yuri Slezkine; União Soviética; Literatura; Russia; historiografia; Soviet Union; Literature; Arctic; Austin; Proa; Salas; Sheila; Sob’
• Online Access: https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/22593

Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California and director of the Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies at the same university. He was born in Russia, in the mid-1950s, and he graduated from Moscow State University. In the early-1980s, he went to Austin, Texas, where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Sheila Fitzpatrick, a leading figure of the so-called “Revisionist School”. Among Yuri Slezkine’s several contributions to the history of the Soviet Union and Russia, we find his PhD thesis Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North, published by Cornell University Press in 1994. In 2004 he published a new book, the The Jewish Century (Princeton University Press, 2006), and he recently published The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton Uni- versity Press, 2017).This conversation was held in Lisbon in November 2017. Yuri Slezkine é Professor Jane K. Sather de História , na Universidade da Califórnia, e director do Programa em Estudos Eurasianos e da Europa Oriental, na Universidade de Bekeley. Nasceu na Rússia, em meados da década de 1950, e formou-se na Universidade Estatal de Moscovo. No início da década de 1980, Slezkine foi para Austin, Texas, onde obteve o seu doutoramento, sob a supervisão de Sheila Fitzpatrick, figura de proa da chamada "Escola Revisionista". Entre as várias contribuições de Slezkine para a história da União Soviética e da Rússia, encontramos a sua tese de doutoramento "Arctic Mirrors": A Rússia e os Pequenos Povos do Norte, publicada pela Cornell University Press, em 1994. Em 2004, publicou um novo livro, The Jewish Century (Princeton University Press, 2006), e publicou recentemente The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton Uni- versity Press, 2017). Esta conversa teve lugar em Lisboa em Novembro de 2017.