HEC Theses: Recent submissions
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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 Luc
Date: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 ...
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Title:Misbehaving under socialism : non-conformity at universities in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic of the thaw period (1953-1968) Author(s):VALODZIN, Uladzimir Date: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 ... -
Title:Printing plague knowledge : early printed plague tracts (1472-1520) Author(s):EVANG, Vigdis Andrea Baugstø Date:2025Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2025Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Boccacio opens his Decameron with an apology to the reader: “I recognize that this present work will, to your thinking, have a grievous and a weariful beginning, inasmuch as the dolorous remembrance of the late pestiferous ...
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Title:Modern art and the making of a French republican imaginary, 1919-1940 Author(s):RIZZI, Elena Maria RitaDate:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Recent scholarship on the interwar French art milieu has overcome, on the one hand, ethnonationalism as the main interpretive framework for examining the relationship between art and politics and, on the other, a celebratory ...
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Title:Popularizing the neoliberal utopia : American libertarian fiction and the quest to design a liberal vision of the future, 1930s to 1960s Author(s):KÖLLING, Dennis Date:2025Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2025Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:How did utopian desire come to justify political violence? And could the imagination of a better world be salvaged from totalitarian tendencies? These were prominent concerns of early neoliberal thinkers amidst the ideological ...
