George Gilbert

Dr George Gilbert is a Lecturer in Modern Russian History at the University of Southampton.

I am a specialist in modern Russian history, with my own research focusing most closely on events, places and people from the exciting revolutionary period of Russia’s history (c. 1881-1917). My past research has included study of right-wing movements in early twentieth-century Russia. I am continuing to think about and explore this field, and another research project explores cases of political and religious martyrdom in late Imperial Russia. More broadly I am most interested in social and cultural history, and, in particular, themes of nationalism, national identity and commemorative culture in this same era.

I am a member of the British Association of Slavonic and East European studies. I am currently sitting on the Research and Development Committee for BASEES, having previously held the role of Secretary (2019-22). I am also an active member of the Study Group of the Russian Revolution: responsibilities here include conference organizer (2023, 2024). At Southampton, I am co-director for the Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies and am also affiliated to the Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across the ages.

I have a wide range of teaching experience in Russian history and modern European and world history more broadly. In addition to my undergraduate teaching I would be particularly interested in supervising research students in aspects of modern Russian history.