Viktor Kondrashin

Viktor Kondrashin
Виктор Викторович Кондрашин
Member of the Federation Council from Penza Oblast
Preceded by	Lyubov Glebova
Succeeded by	Oleg Melnichenko
Personal details
Born	Viktor Viktorovich Kondrashin (1961-08-04)August 4, 1961 Penza, Penza Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Political party	United Russia

Viktor Viktorovich Kondrashin (born August 4, 1961) is a Russian historian and politician. Doctor of Historical Sciences (2001), Professor (1997). Deputy Legislative Assembly of the Penza Region (since 2012). Member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation in 2015–2017 from the legislative branch of the Penza region.

Biography

Viktor Kondrashin Kondrashin graduated from Penza State University (1983).

In 1999 he became Head of the Department of Russian History and Methods of Teaching History at the Faculty of History, V.G. Belinsky Penza State Pedagogical University, in 2013 – Head of the Department of Russian History, Regional Studies and Methods of Teaching History at the Faculty of History, Languages and Literature, Penza State University. In 2016 – Chief Specialist of the Center for Documentary Publications of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History. In December 2017 – Chief Researcher, Head of the Center for Economic History at the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Research

Viktor Kondrashin is one of the major modern experts in the history of the Russian peasantry in the XX century and Famine in the USSR (1932–1933). He is the author of over 300 publications, including those published in Canada, Japan, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, France and other countries. Since 1996, on the topics of his scientific research, he has presented reports at international conferences in the US, England, France, Japan, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Germany, China, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. He lectured at universities in the US, Italy, Japan and other countries.

In February 1992, after completing his full-time Postgraduate course Institute of Russian History, RAS, he defended his candidate of sciences thesis "Famine of 1932–1933 in villages of the Volga region" (scientific advisor V. P. Danilov). Then he worked as a researcher at the "Center for Peasant Studies" Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, in 1997 he started his doctoral studies at the Institute of Russian History RAS; from 1998 to 2010 he participated in Russian-British projects of the Institute of Russian History RAS and MSSES, organized by V.P. Danilov ("The Peasant Revolution in Russia. 1902–1922", "The Soviet Village through the Eyes of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD. 1918–1939", "The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: collectivization and dispossession of the kulaks. 1927–1939 "). He was one of the compilers and editors of three volumes of the documentary series "The Peasant Revolution in Russia", the 1st volume of the series "The Tragedy of the Soviet Village", as well as the 1st volume of the series "The Soviet Village through the eyes of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD".

After completing his post-graduate course, he participated in organizing and implementing major international projects on the history of the Soviet peasantry and the history of the First World War with the participation of scientists from Japan, Australia, England, China, the US, France, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Denmark (the Russian-Japanese project with the University of Tokyo "Modern Russian and Japanese researchers of the history of the Soviet peasantry of the XX century"; international projects with the University of Melbourne and Nazarbayev University on the topics "World hunger of the XX century", "Famine in Kazakhstan in the early 1930s"; Russian-Ukrainian projects dedicated to the famine of 1932–1933 in the USSR and the peasant rebel movement in Russia and Ukraine during the Civil War (both under support of Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation); the international project "Documentary history of the Penza region", etc.).

In 2001 at Samara State University he defended his doctor of sciences thesis "The Peasant Movement in the Volga Region in 1918–1922" (scientific advisor V.P.Danilov).

From 2001 to 2005 he was a co-head of the Russian-Japanese research project "History of the Russian peasantry in the XX century"; from 2006 to 2007 he headed the joint project of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation and NAS of Ukraine "Modern Russian and Ukrainian historiography of the famine of 1932 —1933 in the USSR". From 2008 to 2013 he was a research advisor of the international project Federal Archival Agency of Russia "Famine in the USSR. 1929–1934 " with the participation of archives of Belarus and Kazakhstan, researchers from France, Australia and Denmark (executive editor and compiler of the documentary series). Four volumes of documents collections on the project theme were published.

In 2008, he was recruited by the Ministry of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation as an expert on countering the falsification of the history of the 1932–1933 famine in the USSR, was a consultant to the Federal Agency of the Russian Federation during the work of the commission in Moscow PACE on this issue. He was a scientific expert of The Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests that existed in 2009–2012.

Member of the Expert Council for Historical Sciences State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council for International and Targeted Competitions of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation, expert of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation and Russian Science Foundation. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Russian and East Journal of Russian and East European Historical Research Historical memory", Moscow, journals "Russian history", " Modern history of Russia", "Center and periphery" (Research Institute of Humanities under the Government of the Republic of Mordovia), editor-in-chief of the journal" University Proceedings. Volga region ". He was a deputy chairman of the specialized doctoral council at Samara State University, was a member of the Thesis Councils at V.G. Belinsky Penza State Pedagogical University and Tambov State University.

In 2007, for his scientific contribution, by the decision of the Academic Council of Penza State Pedagogical University, he was elected an honorary professor of V.G. Belinsky Penza State Pedagogical University. In 2009, by the decision of the independent public council "100 best universities in Russia", his monograph "Famine of 1932–1933: the tragedy of the Russian village" (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2008) received a laureate diploma and a gold medal in the "Book of the Year" nomination.

In 2015 he was a Visiting Professor Tohoku University (Japan). Since 2017 he has been Chief Researcher, Head of the Center for Economic History at the Institute of Russian History RAS. In 2019 he was a Visiting Professor again Tohoku University (Japan).

Political activities

On October 14, 2012, he was elected deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Penza Region of the fifth convocation from the Penza regional branch of the political party United Russia (according to party lists).

On August 11, 2015, he was elected a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation – a representative from the Legislative Assembly of the Penza region.

In September 2017, he was elected a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Penza region of the sixth convocation from the Penza regional branch of the political party "United Russia" (according to party lists).

Since 2016 he has been co-chairman of the Derzhava XXI Century programme.

Since December 2017, he has been a member of the Scientific and Expert Council under the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Major publications

• Peasant movement in the Volga region in 1918–1922. – Moscow, 2001. – 544 p.
• Kondrashin V.V., Penner D. Famine: 1932–1933 in the Soviet village (based on materials from the Volga region, Don and Kuban) – Samara – Penza, 2002. – 432 p.
• Famine of 1932–1933 in the Russian village. – Penza, 2003 .-- 366 p.
• Famine of 1932–1933. The tragedy of the Russian village. – Moscow, 2008. – 520 p.
• Kondrashin V.V. The peasantry of Russia in the Civil War: to the question of the origins of Stalinism. – Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2009. – 575 p.
• Contemporary Russian-Ukrainian historiography of the famine of 1932–1933 in the USSR/ed. by V.V. Kondrashin. – Moscow, 2011. – 471 p.
• Kondrashin V.V. People in Time: Notes of a Historian. – Penza – Saransk, 2012 .-- 552 p.
• Victor Kondrashin. La famine en URSS. 1929–1934. Paris: AEHREE, 2013 .-- 384 p.
• Kondrashin V.V. Grain procurement policy during the first five-year plan and its results (1929–1934). – Moscow, 2014. – 375 p.
• Famine in the USSR. 1929–1934: In 3 volumes. Vol. 1: 1929 – July 1932: In 2 volumes. Book. 1 /compiled by V.V. Kondrashin. – Moscow: MFD, 2011. – 656 p. (Russia. XX century. Documents).
• Famine in the USSR. 1929–1934: In 3 volumes. Vol. 1: 1929 – July 1932: In 2 volumes. Book. 2. /compiled by V.V. Kondrashin. – Moscow: MFD, 2011. – 560 p. (Russia. XX century. Documents).
• Famine in the USSR. 1929–1934: In 3 volumes. Vol. 2: July 1932 – July 1933 /compiled by V.V. Kondrashin. – Moscow: MFD, 2012. – 912 p. (Russia. XX century. Documents).
• Famine in the USSR. 1929–1934: In 3 volumes. Vol. 3: Summer 1933-1934/compiled by V.V. Kondrashin. – Moscow: MFD, 2013. – 960 p. (Russia. XX century. Documents).
• Historians-agrarians of Russia XX – early XXI centuries: creative path and international cooperation. – Prague: Vedecko vydavatelske centrum "Sociosfera-CZ", 2014. – 198 p.
• Penza province during the First World War. 1914 – March 1918: In 2 books. Book 1: 1914–1916 /compiled by V.V. Kondrashin. – Prague: Vedecko vydavatelske centrum "Sociosfera-CZ", 2014. – 544 p. (Documentary history of the Penza region).
• Penza province during the First World War. 1914 – March 1918: In 2 books. Book 2: 1917 – March 1918 /compiled by V.V. Kondrashin. – Prague: Vedecko vydavatelske centrum "Sociosfera-CZ", 2014. – 596 p. (Documentary history of the Penza region).
• Grain procurement policy in the years of the first five-year plan and its results (1929–1934). – Moscow: Political Encyclopedia, 2014. – 375 p.
• Political Bureau and "saboteurs": Campaign to combat "sabotage" at military facilities/Compiled by V.V. Kondrashin, O.B. Mozokhin (compiler). – Moscow: MFD, 2016. – 752 p.
• "The first commandment": Grain procurement in the USSR. 1931-1932/compiled by V.V. Kondrashin. – Moscow: MFD, 2016. – 784 p.
• The Russian peasantry in the era of revolutions and the civil war: regional and national aspect (ed. V.V. Kondrashin, V.A. Yurchenkov). – Saransk, 2016, 880 p.
• Kondrashin V.V., Mozokhin O.B. Political departments of MTS in 1933–1934. – Moscow: Russian book, 2017. – 304 p.
• The peasantry and the Cossacks of Russia in the conditions of the 1917 revolution and the civil war: the national-regional aspect (editor-in-chief V.V. Kondrashin, V.A. Yurchenkov). – Moscow; Saransk, 2017 .-- 1046 p.
• Famine of 1932–1933: the tragedy of the Russian village. 2nd ed., Add. and revised – Moscow: Political Encyclopedia, 2018. – 566 p.
• "After the great turning point". Grain procurement and grain purchases in the USSR. 1933–1934 (compiler V. V. Kondrashin). – Moscow: Political Encyclopedia, 2018. – 862 p.
• Restoration of agriculture in Belarus: 1943–1945: documents and materials. Minsk: National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, 2018 .-- 648 p. (co-authored).
• Politburo and " wreсking ". Campaign against wrecking in agriculture of the USSR: collection of articles. M .: Kuchkovo field. 2018.- 848 p. (co-authored).
• Peasantry in the Civil War: a study guide for master's degree students of universities (study guide for master's degree students). Moscow; Berlin: Direct-Media, 2019 .-- 463 p.
• In 1992—2019 – laureate of grants from Ford Foundation, Soros, Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation and others for work on the agrarian history of Russia, the Volga region and Ukraine in the first third of the XX century; medal "For longstanding dedicated work" in connection with the 70th anniversary of the PSPU; big gold medal "For the development of Russian land" "Living Planet" and the Programme "Derzhava of the XXI century" with his name being recorded on the memorial sign in the Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow; a memorial sign of the Eurasian People's Front and the Russian faction of the Latvian Seim "Latvian shooters – 100 years "; the anniversary medal of the Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan "100 years of the Republic of Bashkortostan "; the anniversary medal "Hero of the Soviet Union Khalyk Kakharmany Army General Nurmagambetov Sagadat Kozhakhmetovich ", established by the Kazakhstan Public Association of the Council of Generals; the anniversary sign "10 years of the "Historical Memory" Foundation".

External links

• Page on the website of the Federation Council
• Biography of V. V. Kondrashin on the official website of Penza State University, PSU
• Loriya E. 'Our people are so hungry that they even eat dead horse meat': "Izvestia" publishes documents from the FSB archives about the victims of the USSR, "Izvestia", November 24, 2006.
• Maksimova E. Historian Viktor Kondrashin: "It was not Russia that killed Ukraine. The leader is its people "", "Izvestia", October 22, 2008
• V.V. Kondrashin's interview to the radio station "Echo of Moscow", July 20, 2008.
• Kondrashin's interview to the radio station "Echo of Moscow", September 20, 2008.
• Savankova N. Hunger for information. Russian historians intend to convey to the European Parliament the whole truth about the Holodomor//Rossiyskaya Gazeta. – No. 4782, October 29, 2008.
• The publishing projects of Viktor Kondrashin and Olga Sukhova were presented, Penza TV channel "Express", November 1, 2008
• The International Scientific and Practical Conference "Famine in the USSR in the 1930s" was held in Kharkov, "Evening Kharkov", November 21, 2008.
• The famine of the 1930s was a result of the Stalinist regime – historians, RIA Novosti, February 25, 2009.
• If it had not been for collectivization, there would have been no famine, in terms of weather conditions (interview to the journal "Historical Expertise")

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