Staff profiles
Dr Kevin McDermott
Phone 0114 225 3532
E-mail k.f.mcdermott@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
Post-war Czechoslovakia; Stalin, Stalinism and Stalinist terror; Comintern and the international communist movement.
Research collaborations
Co-edited books with colleagues from the University of Vienna, Leeds University and Sheffield Hallam University.
Research outputs since 2001
Books
Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression (Manchester University Press, 2010) co-edited with Matthew Stibbe
Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War (Palgrave, 2006)
Stalin's Terror: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union (Palgrave, 2003), co-edited
Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: Challenges to Communist Rule (Berg, 2006), co-edited with Matthew Stibbe
Journal articles
'Popular Resistance in Communist Czechoslovakia: The Plzen Uprising, June 1953', Contemporary European History, vol. 20, no. 4 (forthcoming December 2010).
'A Polyphony of Voices'? Czech Popular Opinion and the Slansky Affair', Slavic Review, vol. 67, no. 4 (2008), pp. 840-65.
'Power, Archives and the 'Cultural Turn': Reflections on Stalin and Stalinism', Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, vol. 5, no. 1 (2004), pp. 5-24.
'Stalinism 'From Below'?: Social Preconditions of and Popular Responses to the Great Terror', Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, vol. 8, nos 3-4 (2007), pp. 609-22.
Book chapters
'Stalinist Terror in Czechoslovakia: Origins, Processes, Responses' in K. McDermott and M. Sibbe (eds), Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression (Manchester University Press, 2010), pp. 98-118.
