Mikhail Piskunov

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Mikhail Piskunov

Associate Professor, School for Environmental and Social Studies, Tyumen State University

Work experience
01-12.2018: Associate Leсturer, Department of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University.
02-09.2019: Senior Leсturer, Department of Humanities and Social Science, Tyumen State University.

Education
Ph.D. in Russian History
2014-2017: post-graduate of the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences; Thesis of the Ph. D. : Workers of the Vyborg Pulp and Paper Plant in 1980-90s: labor collective between the state and civil society.
2014: Master of History, European University at St. Petersburg
Master’s thesis: The subjectivity of workers of the Vyborg Pulp and Paper Plant in the 1990s
2012: Diploma of History, Novosibirsk State University;
Diploma thesis: The American New Left in 1960-1971: organizational forms of new anti-systemic movement
2007: Gymnasium №21, Novosibirsk.

Expertise and interests

Late Soviet social history, labor history, microhistory/history of everyday life, oral history, urban studies, cultural history of science and technology

contact with me

Bricolage of Museum Narratives of Novosibirsk Akademgorodok: How Collective Memory Actors Work at Medium Level // Bulletin of Tomsk State University Journal of History. 2022. №79. С. 74-83. (In Russian).
The Baikal Counter-version and Soviet Science Expertise: A History of one Seismological Dispute (1962-63) // Ural Historical Herald. 2022. №2. Pp. 78-87. (In Russian).
Footpaths of the Late-Soviet Environmental Turn: The “Forest City” of Novosibirsk’s Akademgorodok as a Sociotechnical Imaginary // The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 2021. V.48. Pp. 289-313. (In English).
Book Review: Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989: contributions to a history of work. Ed. By Marscha, Siefert (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2020) // Ab Imperio. 2021. №3. Pp. 58-66. (In Russian).
Late-Soviet Subbotniks from the productivist utopia to the rituals of political loyalty // Tomsk State University Herald.. History. №73. Pp. 31-41 (In Russian).
Akademgorodok’s “Big” History: Soviet Science Cities Historiography and Perspectives for Cultural History // Tomsk State University Herald. №459 (October2020). Pp. 140-148. (In Russian)
Covid-19 testing and the Soviet biowarfare weapon // Social Anthropology. 2020. Vol. 28, I. 2. Pp. 333-334. (In English)
Anthropology of the Socialist Plan or Romanian Time Acceleration. Book Review: Cucu A. (2019) Planning labour: Time and the foundations of industrial socialism in Romania, New York: Berghahn Books. Sociology of Power, 32 (1): 308-317 (In Russian).
Social Reactions toward Foreigners during the Vyborg Pulp and Paper Plant Reconstruction (1985–1987) // Novosibirsk State University Herald. History. 2019. №1 Pp. 130-139 (in Russian).
Perestroyka and Industrial Democracy in the USSR: the Labor Collective of Vyborg Pulp and Paper Plant in 1987-89 // Perm State University Herald. History. 2018. №1 Pp. 189-199 (In Russian).
Micro-politics of the late Soviet Factory: a common “Eigen-Sinn” and the Struggle for labor Discipline in Case of Vyborg Pulp and Paper Plant // The Journal of Social Policy Studies. 2017. №2. Pp. 217-234 (in Russian).
“Construction the Soviet”: the Event and memory of Post-Soviet Subject (by Svetlana Volskaya memoirs) // Russia-XXI. 2016. №4. Pp. 106-120 (in Russian).
“Labor collective as political subject of labor process in the Late Soviet Union and market reforms of the 1990s // Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung. 2015. №3. Ss. 28-46 (in German).