Existing publications on the department

Left: Slavianskii Mir: The Story of Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham in the Twentieth Century, by Malcolm Jones (Ilkeston: Bramcote Press, 2009).
Right: Windows on Russia and Eastern Europe, edited by Phil Davies (Ilkeston: Bramcote Press, 2013).

Our department and its students have been the subject of two recent publications.

In 2009, Emeritus Professor Malcolm Jones published Slavianskii Mir. Tracing the story of the department from its modest beginnings in 1915 to the end of the twentieth century, when it had risen to become one of the leading departments of Russian and Slavonic Studies in the UK. It focuses on the experience of life in the department itself, and features the recollections of over sixty present and former staff and students.

Windows on Russia and Eastern Europe was published in 2013. Edited by Phil Davies, a journalist who graduated in Russian and French from the University of Nottingham, the book features contributions from several former students of the department, each detailing the time they spent living and working in the former USSR and in Eastern Europe after their graduation. It sheds light on how these once Communist-controlled lands have evolved from post-Stalinist control to Gorbachev’s perestroika, to the robber-baron days of the 1990s, through to Putin’s uneasy mixture of free markets and semi-authoritarian rule.