Aleksandr Fokin

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Aleksandr Fokin

Senior Research Fellow, Anthroposchool
Department of History of Russia

Work experience
2007-2019 assistant professor Department of History of Russia and Foreign Countries Chelyabinsk State University

2019-… assistant professor Department of History of Russia Tyumen State University

Education
2007. Candidate of Sciences in History, Department of History, Chelyabinsk State University

1999-2004. BA in History, Department of History, Chelyabinsk State University

Expertise and interests
historical anthropology of the late Soviet society, history of the concepts of the Soviet language, gender history of the USSR.

contact with me

SPIN-код: 7974-0880, AuthorID: 632567, ORCID: 0000-0001-6637-9314

Books

Fokin A.A. "Communism is not far off ": images of the future in power and the population of the USSR 1950-1960. Moscow, 2017.
Notebooks of the Verkhne-Uralsky Political Isolator. 1932-1933 : A collection of documents. - Moscow : Twentieth, 2022. - 476 с. - ISBN 978-5-89513-505-1.

Journal Articles

Fokin, A. A. Outposts of Socialism: Cultural Landscape of Ural Cities // Bulletin of Tomsk State University. History. - 2022. - № 78. - С. 92-96. - DOI 10.17223/19988613/78/12.
Rakov T. N., Fokin A. А. "Everyone is thinking about nature today": the search for agency in late-Soviet environmental posters // Ural Historical Herald. 2022. № 2 (75). С. 106-114.
Strekalov I. N., Fokin A. A. "Every line of the new constitution project is imbued with concern for the Soviet man": ideas about justice and morality in the discussion of the 1977 Constitution project // Vestnik of Tomsk State University. 2020. № 460. С. 164-172.
Sobisevich A.V., Fokin A.A. "We are by no means indifferent to the form in which socialism reclaims the planet from imperialism". Formation of Socialist Ecology: Between Ideology and Practice // Sociology of Science and Technology. 2020. №3. С. 42-58.
Fokin A. A. Foreign policy issues in the program of Bolshevik-Leninists of Verkhneuralsk political prison // The newest history of Russia. 2020. Т. 10, № 3. С. 797-817.
Bakanov S.A., Fokin A.A. "And under communism everything will be...": state planning of the standard of living of the Soviet man by 1980 // Novaya istoriya Rossii. 2019. Т. 9. № 2. С. 420-436.
Fokin A. A. After Stalin: Late Soviet Subjectivity (1953-1985) / Ed. by A. Pinsky // Ab Imperio. 2019. № 3. С. 302-311.
Fokin A.A. The Crisis of the Revolution and the Tasks of the Proletariat and Peculiarities of Source Analysis of Bolshevik-Leninist Documents of the 1930s // Vestnik of Perm University. Series History. 2019. № 1 (44). С. 165-174.
Fokin A.A. "Useful Past" by David Brandenberger // Russian History. 2019. № 5. С. 238-244.
Fokin A.A. Notebooks of the Verkhneuralsk political isolator: presentation of the source and reflection on its meaning // Ab imperio. 2017. № 4. pp. 177-194.
Fokin AA The Soviet elections of the 1960s. as a mechanism of interaction of power and the population / / Questions of history. 2017. № 6. pp. 138-145.
Fokin A.A. "Comrades, let me thank you for your confidence in me": the culture of trust in the Soviet electoral process // Bulletin of Perm University. Series: History. 2015. № 3. pp. 110-115.
Fokin A.A. Organizational and Technical Measures of Election Campaigns in the Late USSR // Bulletin of the Chelyabinsk State University. 2015. № 2. pp. 77-82.
Fokin A.A. "Why do vodka?" How the USSR was Spived // Rodina. 2014. № 10. pp. 159-160.
Fokin A.A. Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On Strengthening the Struggle Against Drunkenness and on Establishing Order in the Trade in Strong Liquor" and the anti-alcohol campaign of the 1960s // Bulletin of the Chelyabinsk State University. 2014. № 12. pp. 109-115.
Fokin A.A. Public Policy as an Interpretational Model of Soviet History // Vestnik of Perm University. Series: History. 2013. № 1. pp. 197-204.
Fokin A.A. "The people are offended, the party does not give much" // Rodina. 2012. № 3. pp. 154-157.
Fokin A.A. "Consumer" version of the perception of communism by the Soviet population at the turn of the 50's and 60's. // Bulletin of the Chelyabinsk State University. 2007. № 11. pp. 34-41.
Fokin A.A. Soviet laughter culture in the era of "extensive construction of communism" // Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University. 2007. № 13. pp. 123-127.

Book Chapters

Fokin A. Kulturangelegenheiten auf den KPdSU-Parteitagen der 1960er und 1970er Jahre / Hochkultur für das Volk? Literatur, Kunst und Musik in der Sowjetunion aus kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Munich. 2018. pp. 117-136.
Fokin A.A. Stalin's legislation as the basis for the electoral process in the late USSR / / Soviet society in the late Stalinism. 1945-1953. Moscow, 2015. pp. 235-242.
Fokin A. USSR, created by users: Internet reception of the Soviet past // "Work on the past": XX century in communication and memory of post-war generations of Germany and Russia: collection of articles. Chelyabinsk, 2014. pp. 210-223.
Fokin A.A. "Laughter in the Hall": comic at party congresses (1950-1960) // From the great to the ridiculous ... Instrumentalization of the laughter of the Russian history of the 20th century. Collection of articles. Chelyabinsk, 2013. pp. 110-118.
Fokin A.A. Utopia and the future are twin brothers? Alternative approaches to the study of unrealized projects // Humanities readings of the RSUH-2011. Moscow, 2012. pp. 133-140.
Fokin A.A. The idea of communism among the population of the USSR at the turn of the 1950's and 1960's. In connection with the adoption of the III Program of the CPSU // Social History: Yearbook. 2010. St. Petersburg, 2011. pp. 302-326.
Fokin A.A. Images of the Soviet in the modern domestic mass culture // History and historians in the space of national and world culture XVIII - early XX century. Moscow, 2011. pp. 277-279.
Fokin A.A. "Women's Communism" at the turn of the 1950-1960's. // Private and Public: Gender Aspect: Proceedings of the Fourth International Scientific Conference of RARWH and the IEN RAS, October 20-22, 2011, Yaroslavl, 2011. T. 1. pp. 432-435.
Fokin A.A. Ruins of communism: the Soviet city as a mirror of the "bright future" / / Socialist city and socio-cultural aspects of urbanization: a collection of materials of an international scientific conference. Magnitogorsk, 2010. pp. 263-272.