Olga V. Velikanova

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Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Velikanova, O. (2020). Kонституция 1936 года. Политическая культура сталинского общества. Author's Russian translation of "Mass Political Culture under Stalinism",Palgrave, 2018. 360. Moscow, NLO Press. https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/biblioteka_zhurnala_neprikosnovennyy_zapas/22833/
• Velikanova, O. (2018). Mass Political Culture under Stalinism. Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936. 253. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319784427#aboutBook
• Olga Velikanova. (2017). Disenchantment of the Dreamers. Soviet Society in the 1920s, Russian language translation of "Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics". 296. Moscow, ROSSPEN. http://www.rosspen.su/ru/catalog/.view/good/978-5-8243-2148-7/
• The Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project. Working Paper, N 7, 2002, CREES, University of Toronto. 33 p.(in English). (2002). The Myth of the "Besieged Fortress". Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s-1930s.. 7 33. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON,, The Stalin‑Era Research and Archives Project. Working Paper, N 7, 2002, CREES. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc174713/?q=velikanova
• Olga Velikanova. (2001). The Public Perception of the Cult of Lenin Based on the Archival Materials . 284. Information The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001, 284 pp. (in Russian); You do not have access to modify this field.The Edwin Mellen Press. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501442/
• Muster-Schmidt-Verlag, Gottingen, 1996, 181 pp. (in English). (1996). Making of an Idol: on Uses of Lenin .

Book Chapter

• Velikanova, O. (2022). “Soviet Surveillance: Top-down extraction of bottom-up messages”. in Media and Communication from Lenin to Stalin (1917-1941): General Perspective. 417-427. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-88367-6_25
• Velikanova, O.V. (2021). “Nominal Democracy in Stalinism. Soviet Constitution of 1936.”. in Planting Parliaments in Eurasia: Lineages, Concepts, and Mythologies, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira,. 256-281. London, Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003158608-9/nominal-democracy-stalinism-olga-velikanova
• Velikanova, O. (2020). “Stalinist Moderation and the Turn to Repression. Utopianism and Realpolitik in the Mid-1930s.". in The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-1941. Ed. By James Harris, Peter Whitewood and Lara Douds.. 141-154. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
• Velikanova, O.V. (2013). The Peasant Union in the 1920s. The Formation of a Peasant Identity: Modernizing Discourse. Other. 293-310. St. Petersburg,, Nestor-Istoria.
• Hunger and Scarcity under State-Socialism, eds., Matthias Middell, and Felix Wemheuer, Leipziger Universitatesverlag, Germany, 2012, pp. 83-114 (in English). (2012). Aftermath of the Great Famine: 1922-1923. Other. 83-114. Leipziger Universitatsverlag,.
• Velikanova, O.V. (2010). Stalinism in Microhistory of Deconstruction of the State Museum of Revolution: Case Study of Big Politics, 1935-1956. Other. 95-100. St. Petersburg, Norma.
• Velikanova, O.V. (2009). Cult of the Leader: Mass Spontaneous Mythology and Official Myth. Other. 15-46. Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Jahrbuch fur Historische Kommunismusforshung, Berlin, Aufbau-Verlag, 2007 pp. 91-117. (in English). (2007). The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s  . Other. 91-117. Berlin,, Aufbau-Verlag. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc181691/?q=velikanova
• Soviet Civilization between Past and Present, M. Bryld, E. Kulavic, ed., Odense University Press, Danmark, 1998.p.13-38. (in English). (1998). The Functions of Lenin's Image in Soviet Mass Consciousness .
• Velikanova, O.V. (1989). The Central Bureau of Trade-Unions in Petrograd in 1917 .
• Velikanova, O.V. (1987). The Participation of Lenin's Relatives in Organization of Lenin's Museums .

Book Review

• Velikanova, o. (2022). Review on A. Tikhomirov, The Stalin Cult in East Germany, Lexington Books, 2022. Russian Review. 81 (4)
• VELIKANOVA, O.V. (2020). Review on Lomb, Samantha, Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics. London: Routledge, 2018. Russian Review. The Russian Review. Volume79 (Issue2) 325-326. Wiley.
• Velikanova, O.V. (2017). Chris Miller, The struggle to save the Soviet economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of the USSR. Other. 70 (3) 1032-1033. Economic History Review.
• Velikanova, O.V. (2017). Eda Kalmre, Human Sausage Factory in Tartu. (XX) Folklorica.
• https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/reviews/197-moscow-the-fourth-rome. (2013). Review of Katerina Clark, "Moscow.The Fourth Rome. Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism,and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941.". Other. (January 2013) Amsterdam, ttps://nexus-instituut.nl/en/reviews/197-moscow-the-fourth-rome. https://nexusinstitute.net/
• Velikanova, O.V. (2011). Review of Helen Rappaport "Conspirator: Lenin in Exile,".
• Velikanova, O.V. (2011). Review of Karen Ryan "Stalin in Satire. 1917-1991.".
• Velikanova, O.V. (2002). J. Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War,. Other. (2004, N 4) 3. Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Velikanova, O. (2002). Review of J. Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War, Princeton University Press, 2000. Other. 4 (January 2002)

Broadcast Media

• Velikanova, O.V. (2021). Mass Political Culture in Stalinism. (07.28.2021) Novaia Gazeta. https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/07/28/v-glazakh-stalina-obshchestvo-ne-proshlo-test-na-svobodu
• Velikanova, O.V. (2021). obshhestvo-pri-staline-i-zapros-na-svobodu (in Russian). (June 4, 2021) Moscow, https://civiceducation.ru/. https://civiceducation.ru/i-olga-velikanova-i-obshhestvo-pri-staline-i-zapros-na-svobodu/
• Velikanova, O.V. (2021). «Обманули самым неслыханным образом» Сталин дал СССР новую конституцию и обещал честные выборы. Почему потом он начал Большой террор? (in Russian). (Aptil 2021) Internet, Lenta.ru. https://lenta.ru/articles/2021/04/05/stalin_constitution_1936/
• Velikanova, O.V. (2020). How Stalin's constitution from 1936 provoked Great Terror (in Russian language). Internet, Proekt.com. https://www.proekt.media/opinion/velikanova-stalinskaya-konstitutsiya/

Critical essay-review on three books

• Velikanova, O.V. (2020). “Laughter is a serious matter” in Kritika, Explorations in Russian and Slavic Studies. 21 (4) 904–14. Bloomington, Slavica.

Journal Article

• Velikanova, O.V. (2020). In Search of a Cultural Code. (47, 2020) 281–297. Leiden, Russian History (Brill).
• Velikanova, O.V. (2013). "The First Stalin Mass Operation in the USSR in 1927". 40.1 (April 2013) 64-89. Brill. https://www.academia.edu/18047328/The_First_Stalin_Mass_Operation_1927_
• International Journal of the Humanities, Vol 2, Number 3, 2006, p 2213-2221, published also at www.Humanities-Journal.com (in English). (2006). Image of the Future in Russian Communism. Narratives of the Collective Representations in the 1920s in the USSR .
• Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (Ed.), European Culture in a Changing World. Between Nationalism and Globalism. Aberystwyth: University of Wales Aberystwyth, 2002. (in English). (2002). The Mythological Dimension in the Perception of Socialism in Soviet Russia. The 1920s and 1930s . Other. 8. University of Wales, Aberystwyth,,
• Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas 47,1999, H 2, p.227-243. (in German). (1999). O.Welikanowa "Berichte zur Stimmungslage. Zur den Quellen politischer Beobachtung der Bevolkerung in der Sowjetunion" (Secret Police reports on Public Moods in the USSR as a Historical Source) .
• "Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost'", 1997, N 6, p.162-173.(in Russian). (1997). Leader's Image in Mass Consciousness in Nazi Germany and in Soviet Russia .
• Otechestvennaya Istoriya, 1994, N 2, p. 177-185. (in Russian). (1994). Lenin's Image in Mass Consciousness .
• Eszmelet, 1993 December, N 20, p.190-202.( in Hungarian). (1993). Lenin's Death in Public Opinion .
• Osteuropa, 1993, N 10, p.929-938. (in German). (1993). O.Welikanowa "Der Lenin-Kult in sowjetischen Museen" (The Cult of Lenin in the Soviet Museums) .
• Lavenc. Revista d'Historia, Barcelona, 1992, May, N 159, p. 9-11.(in Spanish). (1992). The Significance of Lenin's Cult in USSR .
• Neva, Leningrad, 1991, N 7, p.179-184. (in Russian). (1991). According to the People's Demand... .
• Velikanova, O.V. (1991). O.V.Velikanova under the pen-name G.Grossmann "Sowjetische Historiker bei der Arbeit. Ein personlicher Erfahrungsbericht" (Working as a Historian within the Soviet Framework: Access to Information. A Personal Perspective.) .
• Velikanova, O.V. (1991). Was the First Government Really Soviet? .
• Velikanova, O.V. (1990). Mechanism of Falsification. To the History of the State Museum of the October Revolution .
• Velikanova, O.V. (1989). Lenin's Memorial Hall in the Hermitage in 1924.

Popular Press Article

• Velikanova, O.V. (1991). O. Welikanowa "Noch sind die Archive verschlossen" (The Archives are Still Closed) .
• Velikanova, O.V. (1991). O.V.Velikanova, N.Y.Olesich "The History of the Mausoleum-ization" .
• Die Sowjetunion im Umbruch. (1991). O.Welikanowa "Die Arbeit des Sowjetischen Historikers - von innen Gesehen (How the Soviet Historian Works. A Personal Experience) Die Sowjetunion im Umbruch .
• Velikanova, O.V. (1990). O.V.Velikanova, N.Y.Olesich "Cult of Leader in the Soviet Museums" .

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Contract

• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Publication Grant," sponsored by Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State, International, $1000 Funded. (2000 - 2000).

Fellowship

• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Visiting Fellowship," sponsored by European University Institute in Florence, Italy, International, Funded. (2014 - 2014).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Leaders' Cults in Dictatorships," sponsored by F.Ebert-Stiftung, Tübingen University, Germany, International, Funded. (1992 - 1993).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Visiting Fellowship," sponsored by European University Institute in Florence, Italy, International, Funded. (2014 - 2014).

Grant - Research

• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Soviet Surveillance in European Perspective," sponsored by Gerda Henkel Foundation, International, $25000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Global Venture Fund," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Global Venture Fund," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $2000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Research Fellowship," sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, International, $10970 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
• VELIKANOVA, O.V., "UNT Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $4900 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
• Velikanova, O.V., "Mass Political Culture in Stalinism," sponsored by Department of History, University of North Texas, $500 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
• Velikanova, O.V., "Mass Political Culture of Stalinism," sponsored by UNT Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $500 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Other), "Faculty Research Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2013 - 2014).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Faculty Research Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, Funded. (2010 - 2010).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Junior Research Summer Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, Funded. (2010 - 2010).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Faculty Research Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, Funded. (2008 - 2008).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "General Research Grant," sponsored by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, International, $74000 Funded. (2002 - 2006).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Four General Research Grants," sponsored by University of Toronto,School of Graduate Studies, Canada, Other, $12000 Funded. (2002 - 2005).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "The Public Perception of the Cult of Lenin (USSR)," sponsored by Open Society Support Foundation (G. Soros Foundation), Other, Funded. (1998 - 2000).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Popular Perceptions of Leader's Cult," sponsored by IREX, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, International, Funded. (1998 - 1998).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Image of the Leader in Popular Perception in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union," sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Tübingen University, Germany, International, Funded. (1995 - 1996).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Popular Perceptions of Leader's Cult," sponsored by Foundation Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris, France, International, Funded. (1994 - 1995).
• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Image of Lenin in the Soviet Mass Consciousness," sponsored by Central European University Foundation, International, Funded. (1992 - 1994).

Sponsored Research

• Velikanova, O.V. (Principal), "Faculty Development Leave," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $22000 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
• Velikanova, O.V., "Faculty Development Leave (Fall 2014)," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, Funded. (2014 - 2014).