Nick Baron
University of Nottingham
Research interests
My research focuses on 20th century Russian/Soviet and East European political, cultural and social history and historical geography. I have a special interest in processes of interaction among 'space', 'populations' and 'power'. My approach is interdisciplinary, and much of my work is also comparative.
I have published two monographs, five edited volumes and numerous journal articles and chapters, and have curated or acted as consultant to several major exhibitions. For details of books and exhibitions, see below, and for full publications list, see my University web-page.
Monographs and edited volumes:
- Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953. Ideologies, Identities, Experiences (ed., Brill, 2017).
- Собеседник на пиру. Памяти Николая Поболя (with Pavel Polian et al, eds, Moscow: Mandel’shtam Society – Izd. O.G.I, 2013).
- Warlands. Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945-50 (with Peter Gatrell, eds, London: Palgrave, 2009; pbk. 2014).
- Soviet Karelia. Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia,1920-1939 (London: Routledge, 2007; pbk, 2009).
- Russian transl.: Власть и пространство. Автономная Карелия в советском государстве, 1920-1939 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2011).
- The King of Karelia: Col P.J. Woods and the British Intervention in North Russia 1918–1919 (London: Francis Boutle, 2007).
- Russian transl.: Король Карелии. Полковник Ф. Дж. Вудс и Британская интервенция на севере России в 1918—1919 гг. (St. Petersburg: European University St. Petersburg Press, 2013:
- Finnish transl.: Karjalan Kuningas. Eversti P. J. Woods ja brittiläinen interventio Pohjois- Venäjällä 1918–1919 (Helsinki; Karjalan Sivistysseura ry, 2021).
- Sovetskaia lesnaia ekonomika. Moskva-Sever. 1917-1941 gg.: Sbornik dokumentov i materialov (with V.G. Makurov, A.T. Filatova, eds, credited as ‘Consultant Editor’, Petrozavodsk: Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2005)
- Homelands. War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924 (with Peter Gatrell, eds, London: Anthem Press, 2004; pbk. 2005).
Exhibitions:
- ‘Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths’, British Library, 2016-17 (Associate Curator)
- ‘Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line’, British Library, 2016-17 (Consultant)
- ‘When the war was over: European refugees after 1945’, Nottingham, Glasgow, London, Manchester, 2011-15 (Co-Curator)
- ‘Defining the Route’, 5th Moscow Biennale, 2013 (Consultant)