Dr Zbig Wojnowski

Associate Professor in Soviet History at OSGA and the Faculty of History

zbigniew.wojnowski@history.ox.ac.uk
Dr Wojnowski is a historian of Ukraine, Central Asia and the USSR. His research has focused on interethnic relations and imperial dynamics. His book entitled The Near Abroad: Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine examines how the flow of people and ideas across borders shaped Ukrainian and Soviet identities after the death of Stalin. He has also published on identity politics in Crimea, the role of popular culture in the Ukrainian national project, and the impact of de-Stalinisation in the USSR’s Central Asian peripheries. He is currently writing a book which examines the collapse of the USSR and the advent of capitalism in the post-Soviet region through the prism of show business.