Stephen Lovell

Stephen Lovell has written widely on Russian social and cultural history, with particular interests in media and communications, old age and generations, and urbanization and urban culture. He is the author of the prize-winning Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000 (2003) and Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970 (2015), as well as five other books on periods ranging from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He is currently researching the history of voting from Catherine the Great to Putin, a project supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. Professor Lovell is a former editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and now serves on the editorial board of Past and Present.

Teaching
Professor Lovell teaches a range of modules on Russian and East European history. These include a module on Russian history in the 1870s through the prism of the novel Anna Karenina and a Special Subject on Russian political culture and communications in the revolutionary era from 1880 to 1940. He also contributes to a number of other modules at all levels from first-year undergraduate to MA.