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

  • Central & East European Studies

Publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014
Number of items: 26.

2024

Snitar, C. (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, C. (2024) 1985: Romania and the extension of the validity of the Warsaw Pact. Journal of Cold War Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Snitar, C. (2023) The Romanian Section of the Comintern, 80 Years after the dissolution of the Third International. [Website]

Snitar, C. (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, C. (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, C. (2023) The Romanian Section of the Comintern. BASEES Annual Conference 2023, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 31 March- 2 April 2023.

Snitar, C. (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, C. (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, C. (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, C. (2020) The 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. In: Dworaczek, K. and Łagojda, K. (eds.) Środowisko studenckie w krajach bloku sowieckiego 1945–1990. Institute for National Remembrance: Wroclaw, Poland. ISBN 9788380989917

Snitar, C. (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, C. (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, C. (2019) Women’s experiences of 1956: Student protesters and partisans in Romania. In: Hignett, K., Ilic, M., Leinarte, D. and Snitar, C. (eds.) Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9780367884574

2018

Snitar, C. (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, C. (2017) Radio free Europe and the 1956 students' movement in Timisoara. In: Radio Europa Liberă și mișcarea studenților timișoreni în 1956. ..

Snitar, C. (2017) Romanian Women's Experiences of 1956. Leeds, 2017.

Snitar, C. (2017) Surveillance in Communist Romania. Stockholm University Workshop, 2017.

2016

Snitar, C. (2016) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. In: BASEES Regional Conference 2016, Budapest, 8-9 Dec 2016,

Snitar, C. (Ed.) (2016) Echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt in Romania, 60 Years After. Series: Briefing book. National Security Archive.

Snitar, C. (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, C. (2016) The Echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt in Timisoara. BASEES Regional Conference 2016, Budapest, 8-9 Dec 2016.

Snitar, C. (2016) Life Behind Communist Bars. University of Glasgow, Work in Progress Series, 2016.

Snitar, C. (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, C. (2015) Radio Free Europe and the 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. International Symposium, Sambata de Sus, 2015.

2014

Snitar, C. (2014) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. University of Stirling 2014, 2014.

Snitar, C. (2014) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. University of Manchester, 2014, 2014.

This list was generated on Thu Dec 26 11:50:48 2024 GMT.
Number of items: 26.

Articles

Snitar, C. (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, C. (2024) 1985: Romania and the extension of the validity of the Warsaw Pact. Journal of Cold War Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

Books

Snitar, C. (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, C. (2020) The 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara. In: Dworaczek, K. and Łagojda, K. (eds.) Środowisko studenckie w krajach bloku sowieckiego 1945–1990. Institute for National Remembrance: Wroclaw, Poland. ISBN 9788380989917

Snitar, C. (2019) Women’s experiences of 1956: Student protesters and partisans in Romania. In: Hignett, K., Ilic, M., Leinarte, D. and Snitar, C. (eds.) Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9780367884574

Snitar, C. (2017) Radio free Europe and the 1956 students' movement in Timisoara. In: Radio Europa Liberă și mișcarea studenților timișoreni în 1956. ..

Book Reviews

Snitar, C. (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, C. (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, C. (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, C. (Ed.) (2016) Echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt in Romania, 60 Years After. Series: Briefing book. National Security Archive.

Conference or Workshop Item

Snitar, C. (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, C. (2023) The Romanian Section of the Comintern. BASEES Annual Conference 2023, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 31 March- 2 April 2023.

Snitar, C. (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, C. (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, C. (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, C. (2017) Romanian Women's Experiences of 1956. Leeds, 2017.

Snitar, C. (2017) Surveillance in Communist Romania. Stockholm University Workshop, 2017.

Snitar, C. (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, C. (2016) The Echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt in Timisoara. BASEES Regional Conference 2016, Budapest, 8-9 Dec 2016.

Snitar, C. (2016) Life Behind Communist Bars. University of Glasgow, Work in Progress Series, 2016.

Snitar, C. (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, C. (2015) Radio Free Europe and the 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. International Symposium, Sambata de Sus, 2015.

Snitar, C. (2014) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. University of Stirling 2014, 2014.

Snitar, C. (2014) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. University of Manchester, 2014, 2014.

Conference Proceedings

Snitar, C. (2016) Opposing Communism: The 1956 Students' Movement in Timisoara. In: BASEES Regional Conference 2016, Budapest, 8-9 Dec 2016,

Website

Snitar, C. (2023) The Romanian Section of the Comintern, 80 Years after the dissolution of the Third International. [Website]

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Grants

  • 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

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