Oleg Budnitskii, "Ten Years of the Former Centre for History and Sociology of WWII"

Oleg Budnitskii is currently a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and from 2011-2023 was the founding director of the International Centre for the History and Sociology of WWII and its Consequences/Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at the National Research University–Higher School of Economics (HSE University). He is the author or coauthor of nine books, including Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920, and editor or coeditor of 27 other volumes on imperial Russian, Soviet, and modern Jewish history. Budnitskii serves as editor-in-chief of the annual Archive of Jewish History and is on the editorial boards of The Russian Review and East European Jewish Affairs. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Fulbright Program, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and MacArthur Foundation.