Vera Kaplan

Research Fellow

vera@post.tau.ac.il

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Address    

Cummings Center for Russian Studies

Gilman 180

Tel Aviv University

Ramat Aviv, ISRAEL 69978

Tel:  972-3-6409608;  972-3-6408211                        

Education  

1988    PhD, History, Herzen Pedagogical Institute, Leningrad, USSR

1978    BA (with distinction), History, Herzen Pedagogical Institute, Leningrad, USSR

Academic and Professional Experience

1999-present    Research Associate, Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

1993-1999       Junior Research Associate, Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel

1989-1992       Senior Lecturer (Starshii prepodovatel’), Department of History, Supreme Trade-Union School of Culture, Leningrad, USSR

1984-1989       Lecturer (Prepodavatel’), Department of Political Science, All-Union Post-Graduate Institute for Advanced Training of Professional School Personnel, Leningrad, USSR

1979-1984       History Teacher, Secondary School No. 288, Leningrad

Participation in International Conferences

Academic and Professional Awards

Oct. 1997  Israel Science Foundation, Grant for 3 year research project, “The Teaching of History in School and the Formation of New Historical Narratives in Russia (1985-1995)” (with Dr. Igal Halfin)

Oct. 1997-Oct. 1998   Fellowship,  Institute of Record Research The Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, in the Fellowship Program, “Covering History”

June 1999-Oct. 2001  Tel Aviv University Grant for research project, “Russian Historiography in the 1990s: Searching for Another Past”

March-Dec. 1999  Israel Science Foundation, Grant for research workshop “Unravelling the Threads of Time: The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia”, Tel Aviv University

Membership in Professional Societies

1994-present  Israeli Association of Slavic and East European Studies

2003-present  American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Selected Publications

Articles

- “Education in Russia on the Eve of 1917” (in Russian: “Narodnoe obrazovanie v Rossii nakanune 1917 goda”), Institute of  Scientific Information in Social Science,  Academy of Science,  USSR,  (Institut nauchnoi informatsii po obshhcestvennym naukam Akademii Nauk SSSR  ), 18.06.86,  no. 25582, Moscow, 1987 (23 p.)

- “Petrograd Jews in 1917”, in: Shvut, Vol. 5 (21), 1997 (pp. 81-95)    

- “The Reform of Education in Russia and the Problem of History Teaching”, in: Education in Russia, the Independent States and Eastern Europe, 1999, Vol.17, No. 1 (pp. 3-19)

- “A Dress Rehearsal for Cultural Revolution: Bolshevik Policy towards Teachers and Education between February and October, 1917”, in: History of Education, Special Issue: Education in Transition: Implementing Educational Policy in the Soviet Union, 1917-1953, Forthcoming 2006,  

Chapters in Books

-  “Social Status of Teacher in Russia (1900-1917)” (in Russian: “Sotsial’noe polozhenie uchitelei Rossii (1900-1917)”), in: Pedagogical Intelligentsia: Social and Political Problems (Pedagogicheskaia intelligentsiia: sotsial’nye i politicheskie problemy), Leningrad: 1988 (pp. 94-101)

-  “Bolshevik Activities Among Petrograd’s Teachers  in the Period of Transition from  Bourgeois-Democratic to Socialist Revolution”, (in Russian: Rabota partii bol’shevikov sredi uchitelei Petrograda v period perekhoda ot burzhuazno-demokraticheskoi k sotsialisticheskoi revolutsii), in: Russia’s Working Class, Its Allies and Political Rivals in 1917(Rabochii klass, ego soiuzniki i politicheskie protivniki v 1917 godu), Leningrad: Nauka, 1989 (pp. 52-60)

- “The ‘Jewish  Tribune’ on Russia and Russian Jews (Paris, 1920-1924)”,  (in Russian: “ ‘Evreiskaia tribuna’ o Rossii i russkom evreistve”), in:  Jews in the Culture of Russia Abroad (Evrei v kul’ture russkogo zarubezh’ia),  Jerusalem: 1993  (pp. 167-180)

- “Three Missives from 1919: From the History of Jewish Culture in Petrograd” (In Russian: “Tri pis’ma iz 1919 goda: iz istorii evreiskoi kul’tury Petrograda”, in: D. A el’iashevich (ed.), Istoriia evreev v Rossii: Problemy istocnhikovedeniia i istoriografii: Sbornik  nauchnykh trudov, St Petersburg: 1993,( pp. 134–147)

-  with Boris Morozov, “Towards a Multiparty System, 1985-1993”, in : Russia at a Crossroads:  History, Memory and Political Practice, London: Cass, 1998 (pp. 173-227)

 -  “The Concept of Socialism in Russian History Textbooks” (published in German), in: Isabelle de Keghel & Robert Maier (eds.), Auf den Kehrichthaufen der Geschichte? Der umgang mit sozialistischen Vergangenheit, Hannover, 1999 (pp.115-131)

-  Introduction to the book The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia: Trends and Perspectives, Tel Aviv: 1999 (pp. 1 – 12)

- “Searching for a Path to Europe: the European Dimension in Russian History Textbooks” (Published in Italian: “Alla ricerca di un cammino verso l’Europo: la dimensione europea nei testi di storia del XX  secolo della Russia”) in: Falk Pingel (ed.), Insegnare l’Europa: Concetti  e rappresentazioni  nei libri di testo europei, Torino: 2003 (pp. 369–400)

- “State Policy and the Teaching of History in Post-Soviet Russia: Coming Full Circle?” in: Martin Roberts (ed.), After the Wall: History Teaching in Europe Since 1989, Koerber-Stiftung, Hamburg 2004 (pp.249–259) 

- “History Teaching in Post-Soviet Russia: Coping with Antithetical Traditions”, in: Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes, Vera Kaplan (eds.),  Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, Frank Cass/Routledge, London, 2005 (pp. 247–271)

Edited Volumes

- with Pinchas Agmon, Liubov Ermolaeva (eds), The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia: Trends and Perspectives, Tel Aviv, 1999

- with Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes, Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, Frank Cass/Routledge, London, 2005

Other Publications

- K tebe dusha izdaleka: Po vospominaniiam Rakheli Blekhman (Rachel Blechman’s life), Tel Aviv: 2000 (304 p.)

Encyclopedia entries

- “Pisarevskii Ishiiahu”, Vol. 2, p. 387;  “Rivesman, M.S.”, Vol. 2, p. 468; “Chertkov D.K”, Vol.3, p. 340 , in Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia, Moscow: 1995 and 2000