Dr. Glennys Young

Biography

Glennys Young is a historian specializing in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. Young's research interests have evolved over her career, with a particular focus on the USSR's involvement in transnational movements and processes across political, social, cultural, and economic spheres. She has published extensively on Soviet social and political history. Her notable works include 'Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village' which examines the Bolshevik project of cultural transformation through the lens of peasants' responses to Soviet anti-religious campaigns. This book received an Honorable Mention for the Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Prize from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. In 2011, she published 'The Communist Experience in the Twentieth Century: A Global History in Sources' which presents carefully selected documents and offers insight into the subjective experiences of global communism. Currently, she is working on a book titled 'Return: The Soviet Union and Franco’s Spain During the Cold War,' which highlights the unrecognized social, cultural, and political implications of the repatriation of Spanish nationals from the USSR following the Spanish Civil War. Through her research, Young aims to contribute to the understanding of post-World War II repatriations and the qualitative aspects of these historical movements.

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