Andrej Kotljarchuk

Andrej Kotljarchuk (born 1968, Novocherkassk, USSR) is a Swedish historian of Belarusian descent. His research focuses on ethnic minorities and role of experts’ communities, mass violence and the politics of memory.

Kotljarchuk holds a PhD degree in history from Stockholm University (2006) and a candidate of historical science degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences (1999). Currently he is a university lecturer at the Department of History of the Stockholm University and a senior researcher at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University.

Monographs

 * 1) In Forge of Stalin. Swedish colonists of Ukraine in the totalitarian experiments of the twenties century (Stockholm University Press/Södertörn University Academic Studies) 2014, 389 pp. ISBN 978-91-87235-96-2. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:768629/FULLTEXT01.pdf
 * Russian edition: V kuznitse Stalina. Shvedskie kolonisty Ukrainy v totalitarnykh experimentakh 20 veka. Moskva: Rosspen. international series "History of Stalinism". 2012. 224 pp. ISBN 978-5-8243-1684-1. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:579093/FULLTEXT03.pdf
 * 1) In the Shadows of Poland and Russia: the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden in the European Crisis of the mid-17th Century. PhD dissertation. Södertörn University, 2006, 347 pp. ISBN 91-89315-63-4. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:200752/FULLTEXT01.pdf
 * 2nd revised edition: Making the Baltic Union. The 1655 Federation of Kedainiai between Sweden and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Saarbrücken: Verlag Dr. Müller, Germany, 2008. 344 pp. ISBN 978-3-639-04331-0.
 * Edition in Belarusian: U tsianiu Polshchy i Rasei: Vialikaie kniastva Litouskaie I Shvetsyia u chase eurapeiskaha kryzisu siaredziny XVII st. Minsk: Institute for Belarusian Studies, 2010, 305 pp. ISSN 1392-9682. http://prastora.by/knihi/katliarcuk-andrej-u-cieniu-polscy-i-rasiei-vialikaie-kniastva-litouskaie-i-svecyia-u-casie-eurapiejskaha-kryzisu-siaredz#sthash.D0WsfkSm.dpuf
 * Second edition in Belarusian: U tsianiu Polshchy i Rasei: Vialikaie kniastva Litouskaie i Shvetsyia u chase eurapeiskaha kryzisu siaredziny XVII st. Smolensk: Inbelkult, 2015, 305 pp. ISBN 978-5-00076-010-9
 * 1) Shvedy u history i kultury belarusau [Swedes in Belarusian history and culture]. Minsk, 2002, 296 pp. ISBN 985-6599-58-X.
 * 2nd revised edition: Vilnius: Institute for Belarusian Studies, 2007. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:860434/FULLTEXT01.pdf
 * 1) Prazdnichnaya kultura v gorodakh Rossii i Belorussii 17 veka: ofitsialnye tseremonii i krestianskaya obriadnost” [The festival culture of the 17th century Russian and Belarusian towns: official ceremonies and popular rite]. St. Petersburg: Slavica Petropolitana, 2001, 240 pp. Russian Academy of Sciences: Diss. ISBN 5-85803-177-3.http://www.livelib.ru/book/1000123027

Selected list of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

 * 1) ”Ethnic cleansing in the Barents region”, The Barents Encyclopedia. Umeå, 2016.
 * 2) “Koldyczewo concentration camp” (co-authored with Martin Dean) in: Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, vol. V Extermination, Transit, and Forced Labor Camps for Jews. Ed. by Martin Dean & Geoffrey Megargee. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
 * 3) ”Norwegians in the Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives for Research”, Fortid, 2015:2, pp. 18–22. https://web.archive.org/web/20151222104006/http://www.fortid.no/tidsskrift/download/fortid_2_2015_hires.pdf
 * 4) “Nazi Genocide of Roma in Belarus and Ukraine: the significance of census data and census takers”, Etudes Tsiganes, 2015:1.
 * 5) “The Memory of Roma Holocaust in Ukraine. Mass Graves, Memory Work and the Politics of Commemoration”, Towards a Common Past? Conflicting Memories in Contemporary Europe. Ed. by Barbara Tornqvist-Plewa. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. 2015.
 * 6) “The 1655 Union of Keidaniai between Lithuania and Sweden: Dynastical Dimensions in Historical Perspective”, Lithuania-Poland-Sweden. European Dynastic Unions and Historical-Cultural Ties, Vilnius: National Museum, 2014, pp. 364–391.
 * 7) “The Nordic Threat: Soviet Ethnic Cleansing on the Kola Peninsula”, The Sea of Identities. A century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender, Norbert Götz (ed.), Södertörn University Academic Studies, vol. 60, Stockholm, Elanders, 2014, pp. 53–83. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:748534/FULLTEXT01.pdf
 * 8) "The Nazi genocide of Roma on the territory of occupied Ukraine: the role of Soviet path dependency in contemporary politics of memory", Holocaust and Modernity, 2014:12, [in Russian] pp. 24–50. https://web.archive.org/web/20160307145025/http://holocaust.kiev.ua/news/jurnal_nodostup/Kotljarchuk12.pdf
 * 9) “Little Red Sweden in Ukraine: the 1930s Comintern project in Gammalsvenskby”, The Lost Swedish Tribe: Reapproaching the history of Gammalsvenskby in Ukraine, Piotr Wawrzeniuk & Julia Malitska (eds.), Södertörns högskola, Huddinge, 2014, pp. 111–149. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:704718/FULLTEXT01.pdf
 * 10) “World War II Memory Politics: Jewish, Polish and Roma Minorities of Belarus”, The Journal of Belarusian Studies. 2013:1, pp. 7–40. http://belarusjournal.com/article/world-war-ii-memory-politics-jewish-polish-and-roma-minorities-belarus-205
 * 11) ”Kola Sami in the Stalinist terror: a quantitative analysis", Journal of Northern Studies, 2012:2, pp. 59–82. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:606912/FULLTEXT01.pdf
 * 12) ”Tvångsnormaliseringens teknik och kollektivt motstånd. Ukrainasvenskar i Gulagarkipelagen", Historisk Tidskrift. 2011:1, pp. 3–24. http://www.historisktidskrift.se/fulltext/2011-1/pdf/HT_2011_1_003-024_kotljarchuk.pdf
 * 13) ”Hidden History, Divided Memory: the concentration camp of Kaldycheva in Nazi-occupied Belarus”, Conference paper presented at the international symposium “Nazi Camps in the Occupied Soviet Territories” Paris. The research centre Yahad–In Unum and the Université Paris-IV Sorbonne. September 19–20, 2011. DVD publication. Paris: Yahad–In Unum. 2012, vol. 4.
 * 14) SWOT 2. Analysis and Planning for Cross-border Co-operation in Northern Europe. Institute of International Sociology Gorizia. Council of Europe, 2010, chapter 4.1,. ”Prospects for “good” cross-border cooperation between Belarus and Latvia”; chapter 8 ”Belarus-Latvia”. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:779068/FULLTEXT01.pdf
 * 15) “Ruthenian Protestants and the Orthodoxy in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”, Lithuanian Historical Studies. 2009:12, pp. 41–62. ISSN 1392-2343. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:579102/FULLTEXT02.pdf
 * 16) 10. “Historians in entrenchments: the Belarusian scholarship under Lukashenka”, Ukraina Moderna. 2007. Vol 12:1, pp. 62–71. (In Ukrainian). http://uamoderna.com/images/archiv/12_1/4_UM_12_Doslidzennia__Kotlyarchuk.pdf
 * 17) “Paganism in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in views of Swedish and English early modern historians”,  Druvius. 2008:2, pp. 79–86. (In Belarusian).
 * 18) “Ukrainian Swedes in Komi ASSR: survival and everyday life”, Skandinavskie chteniya 2008. St. Petersburg, pp. 306–325. (In Russian). http://www.kunstkamera.ru/files/lib/978-5-88431-187-9/978-5-88431-187-9_25.pdf
 * 19) “The 1655 Union of Kedainiai between Lithuania and Sweden and the nobility of Grodno”, Haradzienski palimpsest. Bialystok, 2008, pp. 40–48.
 * 20) “Riga and commercial aspects of the Lithuanian-Swedish relations during the first half of the seventeenth century”, Groninger Hanze Studies 2. Ed. Hano Brand, Poul Holm and Leos Müller. Groningen. 2007. pp. 240–249. ISBN 978-90-6550-882-9.
 * 21) “German colonists of Ukraine and their relations with Swedish neighbours”, Voprosy Germanskoi Istorii. Dnepropetrovsk, 2007. (In Russian). pp. 27–35.
 * 22) “Students from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the Dutch universities: confession, social and ethnic origin and everyday life”, ARCHE, 2007:11.(in Belarusian). https://store.arche.by/item/1684
 * 23) “The pro-Swedish Advisory Council of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1655-1656: the origin, structure and fate of members”, Faworyci i opozycjoniści. Król a Elity polityczne w Rzeczypospolitej XV-XVII wieku. Krakow, 2006, pp. 311–329.
 * 24) “The Second Northern War and the last Swedish operation in Belarus. A siege of Brest and conflict for the city”, Belarusian Historical Review, vol. XII:1-2. 2006, pp. 30–69. (In Belarusian with summary in Swedish). http://www.belhistory.eu/andrej-katlyarchuk-drugaya-pa%D1%9Enochnaya-vajna-i-aposhnyaya-shvedskaya-aperacyya-%D1%9E-vkl-abloga-berascya-1657-g-i-sprechka-za-mesta/
 * 25) “The tradition of Belarusian Statehood: a war for the past”, Contemporary Change in Belarus. Baltic and Eastern European Studies. Vol. 2. Södertörn University. 2004, pp. 41–72. ISBN 91-85139-02-5.
 * 26) ”Diplomatic relations between Sweden and Ukraine in 1654-1660”, Ukraina i sosednie gosudarstva v XVII. Sankt Petersburg, 2004, pp. 90–107. (In Russian).
 * 27) “The image of Swedes in Belarusian literature”, Annus Albaruthenicus, 2002, vol. 3, pp. 79–93.
 * 28) “Karl XII and Belarusian folklore”, Skandinavskie chteniya 2002. St. Petersburg, pp. 419–427. (In Russian). http://www.kunstkamera.ru/index/science/books/books/skandinavskie_chtenia2002/
 * 29) “Karl XII in Mahileu”, Past and present history of Mahileu. The materials of the international conference. Mahileu. 2001, pp. 95–99. (In Belarusian).
 * 30) “Polish-Church-Slavonic dictionary of Simeon Polatski in Sweden”, Contacts and dialogues. The journal of the International Association for Belarusian studies. Minsk, 2001, vol.6. pp. 31–42. (In Belarusian).
 * 31) “Belarusian minority in the Bryansk region of Russia”, ARCHE, 2001:2, pp. 155–166. (In Belarusian). https://web.archive.org/web/20151222163140/http://arche.bymedia.net/2001-2/katla201.html
 * 32) “Swedes in history and folklore of Belarusians”, Skandinavskie chteniya 1998. St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 187–193. (In Russian). http://urss.ru/cgi-bin/db.pl?lang=Ru&blang=ru&page=Book&id=71419
 * 33) “The Bakhtin’s theory and the studies of Belarusian popular culture”, Dialogue. Carnival, Chronotop. International Bakhtin Journal, 1998, 3 (24), pp. 46–59.  (In Russian). http://nevmenandr.net/dkx/?y=1998&n=3&abs=KOTL

Reviews

 * Weiss-Wendt, Anton (ed.), The Nazi genocide of the Roma: reassessment and commemoration, Berghahn Books, New York, 2013, in: Holocaust and Modernity, 2014:1, pp. 105–118. http://holocaust.kiev.ua/
 * Deland, Mats. Purgatorium: Sverige och andra världskrigets förbrytare. Stockholm: Atlas.2012, in: Arche, ISSN 1392-9682, Vol. 5, pp. 166–172. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:749122/FULLTEXT02.pdf
 * Audronė Janužytė Historians as Nation State-Builders: the Formation of Lithuanian University 1904-1922. 2006, in:  Nordisk Østforum, ISSN 0801-7220, Vol. 20: 4, pp. 459–461. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:579147/FULLTEXT02.pdf
 * Bernhard Chiari. Alltag hinter der Front: Besatzung, Kollaboration und Widerstand in Weißrußland 1941–1944. Düsseldorf, 1998. Ab Imperio. 2007:3. pp. 482–492. http://abimperio.net/cgi-bin/aishow.pl?state=srch&idlang=2&s=котлярчук
 * Gaunt David, Levine Paul A. and Palosuo Laura (eds). 2004. Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust. Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004. ARCHE, vol. 3. 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042220/http://arche.bymedia.net/2005-3/katlarcuk305.htm
 * Eriksonas, Linas. 2004. National heroes and national identities. Scotland, Norway and Lithuania. Brussels. 320 pp. Belarusian Historical Review, 2004:11. http://www.belhistory.eu/eriksonas-linas-national-heroes-and-national-identities-scotland-norway-and-lithuania-andrej-katlyarchuk/
 * Lindner, Rainer. 1999. Historiker und Herrschaft: Nationsbildung und Geschichtspolitik in Weissrussland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. München. ARCHE. Minsk, 2004:2. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035649/http://arche.bymedia.net/2004-2/katlarcuk204.htm
 * Stone, Daniel. 2001. The Polish-Lithuanian state, 1386-1795. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 374 p. ARCHE, vol. 5. 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022535/http://arche.bymedia.net/2003-5/katl503.html
 * Snyder, Timothy. 2003. The reconstruction of Nations. Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999. Yale University, USA. 367 p. ARCHE, vol. 2. 2003. http://kamunikat.org/usie_czasopisy.html?pubid=12676