Sarah Davies
Deputy Head of Department
Department of History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Sarah Davies is a cultural historian of the Soviet Union and the Cold War. Her first book, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia (CUP, 1997) was awarded the Alec Nove prize. She received AHRC funding for a project on Stalin’s personal archive, which has resulted in a monograph, Stalin's World, jointly-authored with James Harris (Leeds). With Harris, she co-edited Stalin: A New History (CUP, 2003). Her current project is a study of Soviet and British cultural diplomacy during the Cold War.
Research Interest
Research Interests include Political Communication, Stalin and Stalinism, The Cultural Cold War, The Soviet Union.
Publications
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Davies, S.R. (1997). The "cult" of the vozhd: representations in letters 1934-1941. Russian History 24(1): 131-147.
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Davies, S.R. (1997). Us against Them: Social identity in Soviet Russia 1934-41. Russian Review 56(1): 70-89.
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Davies, S.R. (1998). The crime of "anti-Soviet agitation" in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Cahiers du Monde Russe Russie, Empire russe, Union soviétique, États indépendants 39(1-2): 149-168.
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Davies, S. R. (2003). Soviet cinema in the early cold war: Pudovkins Admiral Nakhimov in context. Cold War History 4(1): 49-70.
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Davies, S.R. (2013). The Soft Power of Anglia: British Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the USSR. Contemporary British History 27(3): 297-323.
