I am Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Bristol. My book Stalin’s Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism was published by OUP in 2010 and in paperback in May 2012. It was commended for the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History in 2010. I have published extensively on youth, resistance and space and have edited a volume on new research on late Stalinism (Late Stalinist Russia (Routledge, 2006). As well as directing the Dropping Out project, I am writing a history of the life and worlds of the Soviet hippy community. For more details of my research, please see my Departmental webpage.
Dr. Josie McLellan (Co-Investigator)I am Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Bristol. My second book, Love In The Time of Communism, won the 2011 Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History. On the 'Dropping Out' project, my research focuses on gay and lesbian subcultures in 1970s and 1980s East Berlin. The first article from this project was published by History Workshop Journal in autumn 2012. For more details of my research, please see my Departmental webpage.
Anna Kan graduated from St. Petersburg State University and St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy. Her research interests are the social and cultural history of the late Soviet Union, especially the underground rock scene, its musicians and their relations and/or interaction with the Soviet authorities. She is currently working on a PhD thesis on underground rock musicians and authorities in Leningrad 1972-1992.
She was the author of several chapters in the book Akvarium 1972-1992, as well as co-author and co-editor of chapters about the Leningrad rock-scene and “Chronicles” in the encyclopaedia Noveishaya Istoria Otechestvennogo Kino (The Newest History of Russian Cinema).
