Oleg Budnitskii - Biography#

Oleg Budnitskii is Professor of History and Director, Center for the History and Sociology of World War II at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow; he is also senior research fellow at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academic director of the International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies in Moscow, and a member of the editorial board of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.

He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the annual Arkhiv evreiskoi istorii (Archive of Jewish History) and author or editor of over 200 publications (including 18 books) on the history of Russia and Russian Jewry in the second half of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. His major books are Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites, 1917–1920 (2012, translation of the Russian edition of 2005), Den´gi russkoi emigratsii: Kolchakovskoe zoloto, 1918–1957 (The Money of the Russian Emigration: Kolchak’s Gold, 1918–57 [2008]]); and Terrorizm v rossiiskom osvoboditel´nom dvizhenii: Ideologiia, etika, psikhologiia (vtoraia polovina XIX–nachalo XX v.) (Terrorism in the Russian Liberation Movement: Ideology, Ethics, Psychology [Second Half of the Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries]] [2000]).

He received grants from Fulbright Program, MacArthur Foundation, International Research and Exchange Board, American Council of Learned Societies, Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Russian Humanities Fund, Rothschild Foundation Europe, Ina Levine Senior Invitational Fellowship from the Center of the Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Skirball Fellowship from the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, etc.