Dr Michael Loader

Lecturer in Central and East European Studies (Political & International Studies)

9 Lilybank Gardens, R302, Hillhead, Glasgow, G12 8RZ

Biography

I took up a permanent post as a Lecturer in Soviet history within the Central and East European Studies in the School of Social & Political Sciences in March 2023.

I received my PhD in the History of the Soviet Union from King’s College London in 2015 with a thesis entitled ‘The Thaw in Soviet Latvia: National Politics 1953-1959’.

Before coming to Glasgow, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Centre for the History and Sociology of WWII and its Consequences at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow between 2016 and 2017. I was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden between 2017 and 2020.

In March 2020, I began a three-year Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Glasgow, working on a project entitled ‘Centre-Periphery Relations in Flux: National Politics in the Soviet Borderlands’.

I am also one of two Editors of the Journal of Baltic Studies, where I have been involved in the editing of the Journal since 2018.

My publications have appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, the Slavonic and East European Review and the Journal of Baltic Studies, and I have edited, and contributed to, several edited volumes. I have written on issues of Soviet nationality politics, the Soviet Communist Party, Soviet Latvia, and centre-periphery relations in the USSR.

My interest in Soviet history was nurtured by the dynamic and committed teaching and supervision that I received as undergraduate and Masters student at the University of Hull. I endeavour to create the same kind of encouraging environment to students wishing to explore the history of the Soviet Union at the University of Glasgow.

I welcome students for dissertation supervision in Soviet and East European history.

Research interests

Research groups

Central & East European Studies

Publications

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Number of items: 12.

2024

Cassie, Nicole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1347-4400 and Loader, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2307-5035 (2024) Using Active Learning to Evaluate Brezhnev's Legacy in the Classroom. University of Glasgow Best Practice in Social Sciences Teaching Workshop, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, 07 August 2024. (Unpublished)

2022

Loader, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2307-5035, Hearne, Siobhán and Kott, Matthew (Eds.) (2022) Defining Latvia: Recent Explorations in History, Culture, and Politics. Central European University Press: Budapest. ISBN 9789633864456

Loader, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2307-5035 (2022) Latvia goes rogue: language politics and Khrushchev’s 1958 Soviet education reform. In: Loader, Michael, Hearne, Siobhán and Kott, Matthew (eds.) Defining Latvia: Recent Explorations in History, Culture, and Politics. Central European University Press: Budapest, pp. 151-187. ISBN 9789633864456 (doi: 10.7829/j.ctv280b8f1.12)

2021

Loader, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2307-5035 (2021) Purging in the Khrushchev era: 'Red Cardinals' and nationalism in the Soviet Republics. In: Moscow and the Non-Russian Republics in the Soviet Union: Nomenklatura, Intelligentsia, and Centre-Periphery Relations. Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. Routledge: Oxford, pp. 16-47. ISBN 9781032155401 (doi: 10.4324/9781003244608)

Loader, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2307-5035 (2021) Collaborators or Dissidents? Resistance and Collusion among the Latvian National Communists. In: Nollendorfs, Valters and Ščerbinskis, Valters (eds.) The Impossible Resistance: Latvia Between Two Totalitarian Regimes, 1940-1991. Series: Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia (29). Zinātne: Riga, pp. 191-207. ISBN 9789934599163