[Asec] Sergei Zhuk's activities for 2020

[Zhuk, Sergei]

Dear friends:

I send you a description of my activities.

I had two public presentations:

Public lecture presentation (via Zoom): “The KGB vs. Youth Culture: A Story of Hippies and Punks in Soviet Ukraine” for Ukrainian Studies Organization at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, September 29, 2020: https://youtu.be/4pISJrEuSBg<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F4pISJrEuSBg&data=02%7C01%7Csizhuk%40bsu.edu%7Cc715dcdd962d43c3f82708d864b01525%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C1%7C637370054717486047&sdata=88I2KC6yJzgKX6fzyaF1VQkgv5JxJdeMaz6qg%2BKPbKc%3D&reserved=0>
Keynote address presentation: “The KGB and Taras Shevchenko in Cold War’s Ukraine” for Taras Shevchenko Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, March 6-7, 2020


My book was published in paperback:

Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR: People’s Diplomacy in the Cold War (Lanham, MD and Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield’s Lexington Press, 2017) [paperback: July 2020]

I published a few essays:
“KGB Special Operations, Cultural Consumption, and the Youth Culture in Soviet Ukraine, 1968–1985,” in Russian Active Measures: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Edited by Olga Bertelsen (New York: ibidem Press and Columbia University Press, 2021), 41-66

“Academic Exchanges, the Scholar-Spies and the Cold War,” in a series Reframing the Cultural Cold War: 20 Years after Stonor Saunders’ Case, in Contemporanea, July-September 2020, No. 3, 446-451
“‘Dances for the Masses’: Revolution, Class, Proletarian Music and Dance in Cold-War Ukraine,” Chapter 15 in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class, Edited by Ian Peddie (London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020), 313-332

And I am finishing my writing a book:
“The Seductive Adversary”: The KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953 – 1991

with a special chapter about the KGB persecutions of religious groups in Soviet Ukraine after Stalin

The KGB and “American Religions”


Dr. Sergei I. Zhuk,
Professor of History,
Department of History,
Ball State University,
Muncie, IN 47306
tel.: 765-285-8735
fax: 765-285-5612
e-mail: sizhuk at bsu.edu
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