Mark Edele

Mark Edele is the inaugural Hansen Professor in History at the University of Melbourne . He is a historian of the Soviet Union and its successor states, in particular Russia and one of the editors of Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/soviet-and-post-soviet-history(Cambridge University Press). A former Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow he has served as Deputy Head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS) at the University of Melbourne and as Deputy Associate Dean (academic performance) as well as Deputy Dean and Deputy Dean (People & Planning) in the Faculty of Arts. He was trained as a historian at the Universities of Erlangen, Tbingen, Moscow and Chicago. His publications include Soviet Veterans of the Second World War (2008), Stalinist Society (2011), Stalin's Defectors (2017), Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union (edited with Atina Grossmann and Sheila Fitzpatrick, 2017), The Soviet Union. A Short History (2019), Debates on Stalinism (2020); The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative History, with Martin Crotty and Neil Diamant (2020); Stalinism at War. The Soviet Union in World War II https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stalinism-at-war-9781350153516/ (2021). His latest book, Russia's War against Ukraine. The Whole Story https://www.mup.com.au/books/russias-war-against-ukraine-paperback-softback was published in August 2023. He is a Chief Investigator on ARC Discovery Grant DP200101728, "KGB Empire: State Security Archives in the former Eastern Bloc," (December 2020-December 2023); and ARC DP200101777, "Aftermaths of War: Violence, Trauma, Displacement, 1815-1950," (June 2020 June 2024). He teaches the histories of the Soviet Union, of the Second World War, and of dictatorship and democracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

For more on Professor Edele's work, including links to sources on Soviet history, and community engagement events visit https://www.markedele.com. Professor Edele is on Bluesky as @edelemark.bsky.social