Professor Evan Mawdsley

Professor of International History
Department of History
Room 205
1 University Gardens
GLASGOW
G12 8QQ

Telephone: 0141 330 4523
E-mail: e.mawdsley@history.arts.gla.ac.uk

Office Hours: Monday 11am - 12noon and Friday 11am - 12noon

Research Day: Tuesday

Research

My current research is on the Second World War; I am working on a book about the international history of December 1941.

Publications

World War II: A New History

(Cambridge University Press, September 2009)

This is a global history of World War II. Beginning in 1937 with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, it shows how the origins of World War II lay in a conflict between the old international order and the new, and then traces the globalisation of the conflict as it swept through Asia, Europe and the Middle East.  The primary focus is on the war's military and strategic history, but it also examines the political, economic, ideological and cultural factors which influenced the course of events.  The war's consequences are examined too, in terms not only of the defeat of the Axis but also of the break-up of colonial empires and the beginning of the Cold War.

Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945

(Hodder Arnold, 2005)

Thunder in the East is a broad-ranging but compact overview of a vast conflict.  It investigates the Wehrmacht and the Red Army and the command and production systems that organized and sustained them.  It considers a range of further themes concerning this most political of wars.  Benefitting from a post-Communist, post-Cold War perspective, the book takes advantage of new studies and source material.

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Earlier Books

The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: the Central Committee and its members, 1917-1991 (co-author with Stephen White) (Oxford University Press, 2000)

The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union 1929-1953 (Manchester University Press, 1998, 2003).

Computing for Historians: An Introductory Guide (with Thomas Munck) (Manchester University Press, 1993).

The Russian Civil War (Allen & Unwin, 1987, 2001, 2007)

Moscow and Leningrad: Blue Guide (co-author with Margaret Mawdsley) (Ernest Benn, 1980, 1991)

The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet: War and Politics, February 1917-April 1918 (Macmillan, 1979)

Other Recent Publications

‘Sieger werden nicht gerichtet: Joseph Stalin’, in Stig Förster et al, eds., Kriegsherren der Weltgeschichte: 22 Historische Portraits (Munich, C. H. Beck, 2006).
 
‘Hitler and Stalin in Perspective: Secret Speeches on the Eve of Barbarossa’, War in History, vol. XI, no. 1 [Jan. 2004], pp. 106-148 (co-author with Jürgen Förster).

 ‘Crossing the Rubicon: Soviet Plans for Offensive War in 1941’, International History Review vol. XXIV. no. 4 (Dec. 2003), pp. 818-865.

 ‘An Elite within an Elite: Politburo/Presidium Membership under Stalin, 1927-1953’, in E. Arfon Rees, ed., The Nature of Stalin's Dictatorship: The Politburo 1928-1953 (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2003).

‘The Russian Navy in the Gorshkov Era’, in Phillips P. O’Brien, ed., Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (London, Frank Cass, 2001).

Scholarly activities

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• Editorial board, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 2006-
• Editorial board, Europe-Asia Studies, 1998-
• Editorial advisory board, War in History, 1995-

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

• History 1B
• Honours Courses
  • War in the Modern Age, 1861 to the Present
  • Revolutionary Russia under Lenin and Stalin, 1902-1937
  • The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Superpower, 1938-1991
  • Special Subject: The World at War, 1947-1945
• Postgraduate Taught Courses
  • MLitt in War Studies core course
  • MLitt in War Studies course: Grand Strategy of the Second World War