Yana Skorobogatov

Yana Skorobogatov

Assistant Professor of History

[email protected]
413-597-4547
Hollander Hall Rm 226

Spring 2020 Class Hours

All classes being taught online.

Spring 2020 Office Hours

No meetings on campus.

Education

B.A. University of California, Berkeley (2009)
M.A. University of Texas, Austin (2012)
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, History (2018)

Courses

HIST 140 T / RUSS 140

Crime and Punishment in Russian History (not offered 2020/21)

HIST 240 / RUSS 240(S)

The Soviet Experiment

HIST 241 / RUSS 241(F)

Imperial Russia: State and Society between Europe and Asia

HIST 337 / RUSS 337

After Stalin: Soviet History from "Thaw" to Collapse (not offered 2020/21)

HIST 341 / RUSS 341(F)

Collapse: The Fall and Afterlife of the Soviet Union

HIST 495 T(S)

Stalinism

Current Committees

  • Committee on Educational Affairs

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

Jonathan Williams ’19 – Siberia as Stage: Russia Depicted in Allied Narratives of the Intervention in Siberia, 1918-1920