Department of History and Civilisation (HEC)

 

The EUI’s Department of History and Civilisation focuses on global, comparative, and transnational approaches to the history of Europe in the world since 1400. The Department encourages critical reflection on the research, writing, teaching, and dissemination of history across national borders, and empowers researchers to relate and apply historical research to contemporary challenges.

The Alcide de Gasperi Research Centre (ADG), a joint initiative between the Department and the Historical Archives of the European Union, promotes research into the history of European Integration, supports young researchers in the field, coordinates networks of historians, and facilitates the use of primary sources.

Selected collection: HEC Open Access Publications

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  • Title:Au centre, la périphérie : repenser l’Europe révolutionnaire du XIXe siècle  Author(s):JUDSON, Pieter M.EUI affiliated https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6679-9482Date:2024Citation:Annales, 2024, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 805-809Type:ArticleAbstract:Le livre de Maurizio Isabella, Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions, démontre avec force qu’une partie de l’Europe, souvent perçue comme périphérique, a élaboré des pratiques révolutionnaires à la fois spécifiques et ...
  • Title:PASOK's changing European policy : the achievement of consensus, 1981-1989  Author(s):CHALKOS, IoannisEUI affiliated https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0601-9741Date:2022Citation:Antonis KLAPSIS (ed.), Greece and the EU : 40 years of membership, Utrecht : Eburon Academic Publishers, 2022, pp. 39-51Type:Contribution to book
  • Title:Silk consumption and dressing practices in late-medieval Catalonia : the cases of Barcelona and Vic (1400-1460)  Author(s):PALAREA MARIMON, AinaEUI affiliatedDate:2025Citation:Revista de historia económica, 2025, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 355-385Type:ArticleAbstract:This article examines how consumer preferences towards silk fabrics changed in Catalonia over the course of the first sixty years of the 15th century. It argues that during the first half of the 15th century silk became a ...
  • Title:Before the Gulag : forced labor and security in revolution : the Cheka - NKVD penitentiary and concentration camp system, from civil wars to NEP  Author(s):MINEA-PIC, Guillaume Bruno LucEUI affiliated https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7176-2471Date:2025Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2025Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis examines the development of the first system of concentration and labor camps established by the Bolsheviks during the Civil Wars. It focuses on the role of the security services in shaping early Soviet ...
  • Title:Misbehaving under socialism : non-conformity at universities in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic of the thaw period (1953-1968)  Author(s):VALODZIN, UladzimirEUI affiliated https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1638-3539Date:2025Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2025Version:Chapter 1.1 'Late Stalinism and student non-conformity during it, the importance of its legacy for the later period' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as chapter 'Adzin pravincyjny horad i dzvie kryminalnyja spravy : pradmova' (2020) in the book ''Biazrodny kasmapalit' Kim Chadziejeŭ dy inšyja : Pierasled inšadumcaŭ za savieckim časam : zbornik dakumientaŭ'.
    Chapter 3.1.1 'My thoughts of damnation are addressed to you, swallower... (“Tabie, žyvahłot, maje dumki-praklony…”) Branisłaŭ Ržeŭski’s affair' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Branisłaŭ Ržeŭski i jaho pratest suprać rusifikacyi' (2020) in the journal 'Harodnia annual'.
    Chapter 4.3 'Who can and who cannot produce and read samizdat: followers of Kim Chadeev and friends of Ėduard Gorjačij' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Nonkanformnasć u Minsku časoŭ adlihi : sprava Kima Chadziejeva i Eduarda Haračaha (1962)' (2023) in the journal 'Biełaruski histaryčny ahliad'.    Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis examines the potential for protest among university students and faculty, under the Communist Party regime in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. Universities are crucial locations for highlighting ...

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