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Dr Stephen Brown

BA (Hons) (UoW), Dip. Ed (UoW), PhD (UoW)

Telephone: (02) 4221 3619
E-Mail: sbrown@uow.edu.au

Stephen Brown is a Lecturer in the History and Politics Program within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong. He has been teaching European History at the University of Wollongong since 1993. In 1981 Stephen completed a BA (Hons) University of Wollongong, a Dip. Ed. at Wollongong in 1985, and a PhD at the same university in 1991.Stephen's expertise is predominantly in Russian history and he has worked extensively in archives in Russia. He teaches subjects in Comparative Dictatorships? Stalinism and Nazism? as well as twentieth-century Russia. He is a member of the War, Community and Civilisations research unit.

Research Profile

Research Interests

• Red Army 1917-1945
• Russian Civil War
• Stalin and Hitler Dictatorships
• Revolutions in world perspective

Select Publications

Searchable publications from 2000 to date.

• 1995, 'Communists and the Red Cavalry; the political education of the Konarmiia in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20', Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 73, Number One, 82-99.

• 1996, 'Lenin, Stalin and the Failure of the Red Army in the Soviet-Polish War of 1920', War and Society.

• In print (due to be published Spring 1997), 'The Jew among the Cossacks'; Isaac Babel and the Soviet-Polish War of 1920', Slavonica (formerly Scottish Slavonic Review, Manchester, 3 (1).

Book Review by Invitation

• 1995, Yu Sokolov, Krasnaia zvezda ili krest? (Moscow: Rossiia Molodaia, 1994), in the American Slavic Review, 54 (4), 1087-88.

Papers Presented

• July 1996, paper presented to European Studies Group, University of Wollongong, 'Joseph Stalin and the Communist International, 1924-33'