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Dr Dina Fainberg

Lecturer in Modern History

School of Arts and Social Sciences Department of International Politics

Contact details

Address

Dr Dina Fainberg A229F, College Building
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

I am a Lecturer in Modern History and the Director of History BA Programme. My research explores the history of the Soviet Union and modern Russia, with a particular emphasis on the Cold War, late socialism, mass media, propaganda, and Russia's relationship with the West. My teaching covers a wide range of topics in modern Russian, European, and U.S. History.

My publications include articles in Cold War History, Journalism History and, Reconsidering Stagnation: Ideology and Exchange in the Brezhnev Era (2016, with Artemy M. Kalinovsky). My book, Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the ideological Frontlines, 1945-1991 is forthcoming with Johns Hopkins University Press.

I was educated at Rutgers University and hold a PhD in Modern Russian and Modern U.S. History.

Qualifications

  1. PhD History, Rutgers University, United States
  2. BA (Hons), History, Tel Aviv University,, Israel

Employment

  1. Programme Director, BA History, City, University of London, Jan 2017 – present
  2. Lecturer in Modern History, City, University of London, Jan 2017 – present
  3. Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Sep 2013 – Dec 2016
  4. Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bremen, Bremen, Jan – Dec 2013
  5. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, New York University, New York, Sep – Dec 2012
  6. Mellon Doctoral Fellow, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Sep – Aug 2012
  7. Lecturer, Rutgers University, Newark, Sep – Dec 2010

Memberships of professional organisations

  1. Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies, 2010 – present

Languages

Dutch; Flemish (can read), Hebrew (can peer review) and Russian (can peer review).

Expertise

Geographic Areas

  • Americas - North
  • Europe
  • Russia

Publications

Publications by category

Books (3)

  1. Fainberg, D. (2021). Cold War Correspondents Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-3845-0.
  2. Fainberg, D. and Kalinovsky, A.M. (2016). Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era Ideology and Exchange. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-2994-5.
  3. Hellbeck, J., Lotareva, D., Markova, S. and Fainberg, D. (2015). Сталинградская битва: cвидетельства участников и очевидцев. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie. ISBN 978-5-4448-0264-9.

Chapters (5)

  1. Fainberg, D. and Kalinovsky, A.M. (2016). Introduction: Stagnation and its Discontents. Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era Ideology and Exchange Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-2994-5.
  2. Fainberg, D. (2013). To America in Search of a Socialist Soul: Soviet Foreign Correspondents in the U.S. In Mikhailov, N. and Hellbeck, J. (Eds.), Человек и личность в истории России конец XIX - XX век (pp. 369–385). ISBN 978-5-4469-0001-5.
  3. Fainberg, D. (2012). Ordinary Russians and Average Americans: How Cold War Foreign Correspondents Constructed ‘Regular People’ on the Other Side of the Iron Curtain. In Stolberg, E.M., (Ed.), The Soviet Union and the United States Rivals of the Twentieth Century (pp. 115–137). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. ISBN 978-3-631-62510-1.
  4. Fainberg, D. (2010). The Heirs of the Future: Foreign Correspondents Meeting Youth on the Other Side of the Iron Curtain. Winter Kept Us Warm Cold War Interactions Reconsidered (pp. 126–136). ISBN 978-952-10-6564-4.
  5. Fainberg, D. (2007). Writing Moscow: Memoirs of American Journalists Who Covered the Soviet Union during the 1970s and the 1980s. Российско-американские отношения в прошлом и настоящем образы, мифы и реальность : материалы международной конференции, посвященной 200-летию установления дипломатических отношений между Россией и США, РГГУ (Москва), 21-22 февраля 2007 г (pp. 346–356). ISBN 978-5-7281-0974-7.

Journal articles (3)

  1. Fainberg, D. (2015). A Portrait of a Journalist as a Cold War Expert. Journalism history, 41(3), pp. 153–164.
  2. Fainberg, D. (2015). Unmasking the wolf in sheep's clothing: Soviet and American campaigns against the enemy's journalists, 1946-1953. Cold War History, 15(2), pp. 155–178. doi:10.1080/14682745.2014.978762.
  3. Fainberg, D. (2013). Stephen Lovell, The Shadow of War: Russia and the USSR, 1941 to Present. Journal of Contemporary History, 48(1), pp. 221–222. doi:10.1177/0022009412461777i.

Professional activities

Events/conferences (7)

  1. Socialist Cultural Diplomacy of the ХХ Century: Institutes, Actors, Discourses. (Conference) The German Historical Institute, Moscow, Russia (2018).
    Paper: Russia Uncensored:’ Western Journalists and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1955-1965
    Author: Fainberg, D.
  2. Overcoming the Cold War. (Conference) The Gorbachev Foundation, Moscow (2018). Invited speaker.
    Paper: A Moment of Truth: Cold War Correspondents Confront Old and New Thinking
    Author: Fainberg, D.
  3. British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference. (Conference) Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University (2018). Panel Member.
    Paper: Who Pays the Piper? Soviet-American Space Bridges Debate Mass Media in the Cold War
    Author: Fainberg, D
  4. Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) National Convention. (Conference) Chicago, IL, USA (2017). Chair.
    Paper: Emotions and International Information Policy in Khrushchev’s Thaw
    Author: Fainberg, D
  5. Languages of Internationalism. (Conference) Birkbeck (2017).
    Paper: Pens instead of Projectiles: Peaceful Coexistence and the Transformation of Soviet International Reporting in the Cold War, 1953-1963
  6. Socialist Internationalism. (Workshop) Birkbeck, University of London (2017). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
    Author: Fainberg, Dina
  7. Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) National Convention. (Conference) Washington DC, USA (2016). Panel Member.
    Paper: Peaceful Coexistence and the Transformation of Soviet Reporting from the U.S., 1955-1965
    Author: Fainberg, D.

Keynote lecture/speech

  1. Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines. Abteilung für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Universität Köln (2018).