On Leave 2021-2022
Education
B.A. University of California, Berkeley (2009)
M.A. University of Texas, Austin (2012)
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, History (2018)
M.A. University of Texas, Austin (2012)
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, History (2018)
Courses
HIST 140 / RUSS 140 TUT
Crime and Punishment in Russian History (not offered 2021/22)HIST 240 / RUSS 240 LEC
The Soviet Experiment (not offered 2021/22)HIST 241 / RUSS 241 SEM
Imperial Russia: State and Society between Europe and Asia (not offered 2021/22)HIST 337 / RUSS 337 SEM
After Stalin: Soviet History from "Thaw" to Collapse (not offered 2021/22)HIST 341 / RUSS 341 SEM
Collapse: The Fall and Afterlife of the Soviet Union (not offered 2021/22)HIST 495 TUT
Stalinism (not offered 2021/22)Biography
Yana Skorobogatov is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Her current book manuscript is a history of the death penalty and death penalty abolition in Russia and the Soviet Union, provisionally titled The Inferno: The Death Penalty and the End of the Soviet Imagination. Her second book project looks at the transition from communism to capitalism on the island of Sakhalin, along Russia’s Pacific coast. Her writing on Russia and the Soviet Union has been featured in The Drift, Hakai Magazine, TIME, and elsewhere.
Thesis Advised
Emma Larson ’21 – The Making of Mothers in the Motherland: Pravda and the Soviet Family Code of 1936
Jonathan Williams ’19 – Siberia as Stage: Russia Depicted in Allied Narratives of the Intervention in Siberia, 1918-1920
Megamenu Social