Alexander Yuryevich Watlin

Alexander Jurjewitsch Watlin ( Russian Александр Юрьевич Ватлин ; born January 15, 1962 in Ashgabat , USSR , today Turkmenistan ) is a Russian historian and university professor at Lomonosov University in Moscow .

Life

Watlin studied history at the Lomonossow University in Moscow from 1979 to 1984 and received his doctorate there in 1987 at the Chair of New and Modern History with a thesis on the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1998 his habilitation on the subject of the CPSU and the Comintern followed in the 1920s . Since 2001 Watlin has been head of the working group for research into the recent history of Germany at Lomonossow University. In 2006 he was appointed professor at the Chair for New and Modern History. Watlin is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Yearbook for Historical Research on Communism .

Publications in German (selection)

• “What a devil's pack”: The German operation of the NKVD in Moscow and in the Moscow region from 1936 to 1941 . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2013, translated by Wladislaw Hedeler .
• The Comintern: foundation, program, actors . Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2009, translated by Wladislaw Hedeler.
• (Ed. with Larissa Malaschenko) Pig fox and the sword of the revolution. The Bolshevik leadership caricatures itself . Publisher Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2007.
• together with Wladislaw Hedeler (ed.): The world party from Moscow: The founding congress of the Communist International 1919. Prokoll and new documents . Berlin 2008.

Web links

• Short biography of Alexander Watlin on the website of the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship