The Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Soldier: A Roundtable in Honor of Mark von Hagen I

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

This session on the Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet soldier is in memory of Mark von Hagen, whose scholarly interest in the soldier’s experience bracketed his professional career, starting with his first book, Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, and ending with his service as Founding Director of the Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement at Arizona State University.
Trailblazing in its approach to military studies for its focus on the social history of the ordinary soldier, Mark’s 1990 publication was followed by a veritable explosion of scholarly work on the combatant experience, many asking new questions about nationality, ethnicity, and religion; gender and sexuality; ableism and subjectivity; territoriality and periodization. In the composition of these panels, conscious effort was made to look past the category of the unmarked, ethnic Russian male soldiers of the Red Army to showcase examples of thematic, geographical, and chronological diversity.

Sub Unit

• History: Russian and Eurasian, 1800-1924

Chair

• Kenneth Martin Pinnow, Allegheny College

Roundtable Members

• Frances Lee Bernstein, Drew U

• Peter Isaac Holquist, U of Pennsylvania

• Mara Veronica Kozelsky, U of South Alabama

• Roger Roi Reese, Texas A&M U

• Laurie S. Stoff, Arizona State U