Dr Corina Snitar

  • Lecturer in Central and Eastern European Studies (Political & International Studies)

Biography

Dr Corina Snitar earned her PhD in Central and East European Studies in 2019 from the University of Glasgow. Her doctoral thesis examined the 1956 student protests in Timisoara using fresh evidence gathered through archival research and oral history. The thesis was published in the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series by Lexington Books in 2021.

During her PhD studies, Dr Snitar worked on a book project which examined women's experiences of repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, published by Routledge in 2018.

Dr Snitar also has a Master degree in International Conflict and Cooperation from the University of Stirling and a Master in Central and East European Studies from the University of Glasgow. 

Research interests

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2025) With the Yugoslav Political Emigrants in Romania against Tito. The Society of Intelligence History Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, 6-8 February 2025.

2024

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2024) "Need to know” in a time of crisis: the collaboration between Romanian secret services and their homologues in the Soviet Bloc in 1956. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, (doi: 10.1080/08850607.2024.2404583) (Early Online Publication)

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2024) The 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. CES General Conference 2024, Lyon, France, 3-5 July 2024.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2024) 1985: Romania and the extension of the validity of the Warsaw Pact. Journal of Cold War Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) The Romanian Section of the Comintern, 80 Years after the dissolution of the Third International. [Website]

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) Csaba Békés. Hungary’s Cold War. International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union. The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6748-5. H-Diplo, XXIV(30), [Book Review]

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) Opposition from Within: Romania and the Warsaw Treaty, 1985. Twenty-Ninth International Conference of Europeanists - CES Conference 2023, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, 27-29 June 2023.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) The Romanian Section of the Comintern. BASEES Annual Conference 2023, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 31 March- 2 April 2023.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) Opposition, Repression and Cold War: The Case of 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. Lecture given at Institute of European Studies, Tirana, Tirana, Albania, 16 Feb 2023.

2022

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2022) Trăgători și Mistificatori: Contrarevoluția Securității în decembrie 1989. Journal of Cold War Studies, 24(2), pp. 170-172. (doi: 10.1162/jcws_r_01084)[Book Review]

2021

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2021) Opposition, Repression and the Cold War: The Case of the 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781-793641595

2020

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2020) The 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. In: Dworaczek, Kamil and Łagojda, Krzysztof (eds.) Środowisko studenckie w krajach bloku sowieckiego 1945–1990. Institute for National Remembrance: Wroclaw, Poland. ISBN 9788380989917

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2020) Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania by Jill Massino, New York, Berghahn Books, 2019, ISBN: 9781785335983 (hardcover); 9781785335990 (ebook). Slavonica, 25(1), pp. 82-83. (doi: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1757845)[Book Review]

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2020) Soviet Intelligence and the Romanian Securitate: Methods of Surveillance and Interrogations, Preparation of Show-Trials, and ‘Re-Education’ in Prisons and Labour Camps. Political Police and the Soviet System: Insights from Newly Opened KGB Archives in the Former Soviet States, Georgetown University, 20 Apr 2020.

2019

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2019) Women’s experiences of 1956: Student protesters and partisans in Romania. In: Hignett, Kelly, Ilic, Melanie, Leinarte, Dalia and Snitar, Corina (eds.) Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9780367884574

2018

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2018) The Efficiency of Surveillance in 1950s Communist Romania between Myth and Reality. BASEES Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, 13-15 Apr 2018.

2017

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2017) Radio free Europe and the 1956 students' movement in Timisoara. In: Radio Europa Liberă și mișcarea studenților timișoreni în 1956. ..

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2017) Romanian Women's Experiences of 1956. Leeds, 2017.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2017) Surveillance in Communist Romania. Stockholm University Workshop, 2017.

2016

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. In: BASEES Regional Conference 2016, Budapest, 8-9 Dec 2016,

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (Ed.) (2016) Echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt in Romania, 60 Years After. Series: Briefing book. National Security Archive.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) The Cold War and Romanian Justice: How the Suez Crisis determined the fate of participants in the 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. ECPR General Conference, Charles University, Prague, 7-10 Sept 2016.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) The Echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt in Timisoara. BASEES Regional Conference 2016, Budapest, 8-9 Dec 2016.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) Life Behind Communist Bars. University of Glasgow, Work in Progress Series, 2016.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. The Student Milieu in the Soviet Bloc Countries 1945–1989, Wrocław (Poland), 29 Nov-1 Dec 2016.

2015

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2015) Radio Free Europe and the 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. International Symposium, Sambata de Sus, 2015.

2014

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2014) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. University of Stirling 2014, 2014.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2014) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. University of Manchester, 2014, 2014.

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Number of items: 28.

Articles

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2024) "Need to know” in a time of crisis: the collaboration between Romanian secret services and their homologues in the Soviet Bloc in 1956. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, (doi: 10.1080/08850607.2024.2404583) (Early Online Publication)

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2024) 1985: Romania and the extension of the validity of the Warsaw Pact. Journal of Cold War Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

Books

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2021) Opposition, Repression and the Cold War: The Case of the 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781-793641595

Book Sections

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2020) The 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. In: Dworaczek, Kamil and Łagojda, Krzysztof (eds.) Środowisko studenckie w krajach bloku sowieckiego 1945–1990. Institute for National Remembrance: Wroclaw, Poland. ISBN 9788380989917

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2019) Women’s experiences of 1956: Student protesters and partisans in Romania. In: Hignett, Kelly, Ilic, Melanie, Leinarte, Dalia and Snitar, Corina (eds.) Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9780367884574

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2017) Radio free Europe and the 1956 students' movement in Timisoara. In: Radio Europa Liberă și mișcarea studenților timișoreni în 1956. ..

Book Reviews

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) Csaba Békés. Hungary’s Cold War. International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union. The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6748-5. H-Diplo, XXIV(30), [Book Review]

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2022) Trăgători și Mistificatori: Contrarevoluția Securității în decembrie 1989. Journal of Cold War Studies, 24(2), pp. 170-172. (doi: 10.1162/jcws_r_01084)[Book Review]

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2020) Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania by Jill Massino, New York, Berghahn Books, 2019, ISBN: 9781785335983 (hardcover); 9781785335990 (ebook). Slavonica, 25(1), pp. 82-83. (doi: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1757845)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (Ed.) (2016) Echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt in Romania, 60 Years After. Series: Briefing book. National Security Archive.

Conference or Workshop Item

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2025) With the Yugoslav Political Emigrants in Romania against Tito. The Society of Intelligence History Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, 6-8 February 2025.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2024) The 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. CES General Conference 2024, Lyon, France, 3-5 July 2024.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) Opposition from Within: Romania and the Warsaw Treaty, 1985. Twenty-Ninth International Conference of Europeanists - CES Conference 2023, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, 27-29 June 2023.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) The Romanian Section of the Comintern. BASEES Annual Conference 2023, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 31 March- 2 April 2023.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) Opposition, Repression and Cold War: The Case of 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. Lecture given at Institute of European Studies, Tirana, Tirana, Albania, 16 Feb 2023.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2020) Soviet Intelligence and the Romanian Securitate: Methods of Surveillance and Interrogations, Preparation of Show-Trials, and ‘Re-Education’ in Prisons and Labour Camps. Political Police and the Soviet System: Insights from Newly Opened KGB Archives in the Former Soviet States, Georgetown University, 20 Apr 2020.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2018) The Efficiency of Surveillance in 1950s Communist Romania between Myth and Reality. BASEES Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, 13-15 Apr 2018.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2017) Romanian Women's Experiences of 1956. Leeds, 2017.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2017) Surveillance in Communist Romania. Stockholm University Workshop, 2017.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) The Cold War and Romanian Justice: How the Suez Crisis determined the fate of participants in the 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. ECPR General Conference, Charles University, Prague, 7-10 Sept 2016.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) The Echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt in Timisoara. BASEES Regional Conference 2016, Budapest, 8-9 Dec 2016.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) Life Behind Communist Bars. University of Glasgow, Work in Progress Series, 2016.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. The Student Milieu in the Soviet Bloc Countries 1945–1989, Wrocław (Poland), 29 Nov-1 Dec 2016.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2015) Radio Free Europe and the 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. International Symposium, Sambata de Sus, 2015.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2014) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. University of Stirling 2014, 2014.

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2014) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. University of Manchester, 2014, 2014.

Conference Proceedings

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2016) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. In: BASEES Regional Conference 2016, Budapest, 8-9 Dec 2016,

Website

Snitar, Corina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-9508 (2023) The Romanian Section of the Comintern, 80 Years after the dissolution of the Third International. [Website]

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Grants

  • BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, 2025-2027
  • Mac Robertson Travel Scholarship, 2016
  • University of Glasgow Grant, 2014 and 2015
  • British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Grant, 2015
  • CRCEES Grant, 2014
  • George Washington University Grant, 2014
  • University of Stirling Scholarship, 2010-2011

Teaching

  • Perspectives on Security in Cold War Central and Eastern Europe (1945-1989) - Honours
  • The “Sovietisation” of Central and Eastern Europe – Undergraduate level 1A
  • Cold War 1945-1953 - Undergraduate level 1A
  • Varieties of Communism and their discontents in CEE after 1968 – Undergraduate level 1B
  • The Geopolitcs of Romania - PGT level

Additional information

Convenor Research Group  "Cold War at the Periphery and the Legacy of the Cold War"