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: 11.

2022

Loader, M. , Hearne, S. and Kott, M. (Eds.) (2022) Defining Latvia: Recent Explorations in History, Culture, and Politics. Central European University Press: Budapest. ISBN 9789633864456

Loader, M. (2022) Latvia goes rogue: language politics and Khrushchev’s 1958 Soviet education reform. In: Loader, M., Hearne, S. and Kott, M. (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, M. (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, M. (2021) Collaborators or Dissidents? Resistance and Collusion among the Latvian National Communists. In: Nollendorfs, V. and Ščerbinskis, V. (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