Simone Attilio Bellezza CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION

Simone Attilio Bellezza
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
1997-2003 B.A. and M.A. in History at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Turin.
03.25.2003 Degree in History with mark 110/110 and honours.
2003-2006 Ph. D. in European Social History from the Middle Ages to Contemporary History at
“Ca’ Foscari” University - Venice, (dissertation title: “Nazi Occupation and
Collaboration in Central-Eastern Ukraine: The Generalbezirk Dnjepropetrowsk, 19411944,” supervisors proff. Alberto Masoero and Andrea Graziosi); final exam held on 23
February 2007.
2007-2010 Ph. D. in Historical Studies at the School of Advanced Historical Studies of the
University of the Republic of San Marino (dissertation title: “The Shore of Expectations:
a Study on the Culture of the Ukrainian Shistdesiatnyky, 1953-1972”); supervisor dr.
Andrew Wilson (UCL); final exam on 27 October 2010 with mark 60/60 and honours.
LANGUAGES
Italian: mother-tongue
English: fluent
Russian: fluent
Ukrainian: good
I can read also in French and German
ACADEMIC CARREER
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February-May 2008 Eugene and Daymel Shklar Visiting Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the
Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University
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From February 2009 Teaching Assistant of the Chair of Modern History of the Department
of Historical Studies of the University of Turin
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From February 2011 to October 2013 Lecturer in History of Eastern Europe at the
University of Trento
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From April 2012 to March 2013 Research Fellow in Contemporary History at the
Department of Humanities of the University of Trento
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From April 2013 to June 2013 Research Consultant at the Italian-German Historical
Institute (ISIG) of Trento
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From August 2013 Research Fellow in Contemporary History at the Department of
Humanities of the University of Trento
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March-May 2014 Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study of Sofia
AWARDS
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Prize “Nicola Gallerano” for best PhD dissertation in Contemporary History, awarded by the
IRSIFAR (Institute for the History of Italy from Fascism to Resistance of Rome), 2008
edition
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
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Il tridente e la svastica: L’occupazione nazista nell’Ucraina centro-orientale [The Trident
and the Swastika: Nazi Occupation in Central-Eastern Ukraine], Milano, Franco Angeli,
2010
The Shore of Expectations: A History of Ukrainian Cultural Dissent, 1953-1973, EdmontonToronto, CIUS Press, forthcoming in 2014
Articles:
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Canzone e società sovietica negli anni del “disgelo”: Bulat Okudžava [Song and Soviet
society in the “Thaw” years: Bulat Okudžava], “Passato e Presente”, vol. XXIII no. 66
(settembre-dicembre 2005), pp. 133-154
La politica scolastica nazista nei territori occupati dell’URSS: il caso di Dnipropetrovs’k
(1941-1944) [Nazi School Policy in Occupied Territories of the USSR: the Dnipropetrovs’k
Case (1941-1944)], “Studi Storici”, anno 47 no. 1 (gennaio-marzo 2006), pp. 219-245 [a
partially modified translation of this article has been published with the title Osvita v
Ukraïni pid chas natsysts’koï okupatsiï (na materialakh Dnipropetrovs’koï oblasti in
“Ukraïns’kyi Istorychnyi Zhurnal”, n. 3 (traven’-serpen’ 2010), pp. 78-91]
Ukrainian Euro(di)vision: politica e musica della rivoluzione arancione [Ukrainian
Euro(di)vision: Politics and the Music of the Orange Revolution], “Zapruder. Storie in
movimento. Rivista di storia della conflittualità sociale”, no. 12 (gennaio-aprile 2007), pp.
88-92
Terrore e repressione del dissenso nei manicomi sovietici: le memorie di Leonid Pljušč
[Terror and Repression of Dissent in Soviet Mental Hospitals: Leonid Plyushch’s Memoirs],
in “S-nodi. Pubblici e privati nella storia contemporanea”, no. 2 primavera-estate 2008, pp.
89-100
Può la storia culturale aiutarci a capire l’Unione Sovietica? A proposito degli studi su
valori e sessualità [Can Cultural History Help us to Understand the Soviet Union? A propos
of the Studies on Values and Sexuality], “Italia Contemporanea”, no. 251 (June 2008), pp.
261-73
The Discourse over the Nationality Question in Nazi Occupied Ukraine: the ’Generalbezirk
Dnjepropetrowsk’ (1941-3), “Journal of Contemporary History”, Vol. 43 no. 4 (October
2008), pp. 573-596
The shistdesiatnytstvo as a group of friends: the kompaniia of the Club of the Creative Youth
of Kiev (1960-1965), in “Snodi. Pubblici e provati nella storia contemporanea”, no. 5
(primavera-estate 2010), pp. 64-82
Intelligencija, intellectuels [Intelligentsia, intellectuals], in Olivier Christin (ed.),
Dictionnaire des concepts nomades en sciences humaines, Éditions Métalié, Paris, 2010, pp.
245-260
Collaborazione e collaborazionismo: riflessioni su una distinzione incerta fra libertà e
responsabilità [Collaboration and Collaborationism: Some Reflections on an Uncertain
Distinction Involving Freedom and Responsibility], in Irma Staderini (ed.), Fascismi
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periferici: nuove ricerche [Peripheral Fascisms: new researches], Milano, Franco Angeli,
2010, pp. 79-87
Історія, джерела і методологія усної історії в Італії [History, Sources, and
Methodology of Oral History in Italy], in Naukovi zapysky z ukraïns’koï istoriï: Zbirny
naukovykh statei, Kafedra istoriï ta kul’tury Ukraïny DVNZ «Pereyaslav-Khmel’myts’kyi
derzhavnyi pedahohichnyk universytet im. Skovorody», Pereyaslav-Khmel’nyts’kyi, 2010,
pp. 219-223
“Erano buona gente, gli ucraini:” stereotipi su sé e sugli altri degli italiani in Russia
durante la seconda guerra mondiale [“They were good people, the Ukrainians:” Stereotypes
on the Self and on the Others of Italian Soldiers in Russia during WWII, in Gabriele Proglio
(ed.), Orientalismi italiani [Italian Orientalisms], Alba, Antares Edizioni, 2012, pp. 55-73
Vere e false repubbliche partigiane nei territori occupati dell’Urss: la regione di Brjansk e
la Volinia a confronto [True and False Partisan Republics in the Occupied Territories of the
USSR: Briansk and Volhynia at Comparison], in Alberto Buvoli, Gustavo Corni, Luigi
Ganapini, Andrea Zannini (eds.), La Repubblica della Carna e dell’Alto Friuli. Una lotta
per la libertà e la democrazia [The Republic of Carnia and Northern Friuli. A Struggle for
Freedom and Democracy], Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013, pp. 67-88
Dissensi generazionali: trasmissioni di valori e pratiche nel nazionalismo ucraino
[Generational Dissent: Valours and Practice Transmission in the Ukrainian Nationalism], in
“Quaderno di storia contemporanea dell’Istituto di storia della resistenza di Alessandria”, no.
53 (2013), pp. 66-74
A Different History of the Soviet Union: Lisa Giua Foa between Politics and History,
forthcoming in “Storia della storiografia,ˮ vol. 63 (2013) no. 2, pp. 81-101
Building Memory: National Identities and Monuments in Post-Soviet Ukraine, in Giovanna
Brogi (ed.), Ukraine Twenty Years After Independence: Assessments, Perspectives,
Challenges, New York, Peter Lang, forthcoming in 2014
Reviews:
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Review of S.V. DI PALMA, Bambini e adolescenti nella Shoah: Storie e memoria della
persecuzione in Italia [Children and Teenagers in the Shoah: History and Memory of
Persecution in Italy], (Milano: Unicopli, 2004), “Il mestiere di Storico. Annale della SISSCO”
[The Historian’s Craft. Annals of the Italian Society of Scholars of Contemporary History],
no. VI (2005), p. 227
Review of G. DE ROSA, F. LOMASTRO (a cura di), La morte della terra: La grande
“carestia” in Ucraina nel 1932-33 [The Death of the Earth: The Great “Famine” in Ukraine
in 1932-33], (Roma: Viella, 2004), “Il mestiere di Storico. Annale della SISSCO”, no. VII
(2006), p. 200
Review of G. LAMI, La questione ucraina fra ‘800 e ‘900 [The Ukrainian question between
1800 and 1900], (Milano: CUEM, 2005) , ”Il mestiere di Storico. Annale della SISSCO”, no.
VII (2006), p. 277
Review of G. PIRZIO AMMASSARI (a cura di), Le terre di mezzo: Ucraina e Bielorussia nella
transizione postcomunista [The Middle Earths: Ukraine and Belorussia in Post-Communist
Transition], (Milano: Franco Angeli, 2007), “Il mestiere di Storico. Annale della SISSCO”,
no. IX (2008), p. 442
Review of C. PLESHAKOV, Stalin’s Folly: The first tragic ten days of World War Two on the
eastern front, (Boston-New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005), “Il mestiere di
Storico. Annale della SISSCO”, no. IX (2008), p. 444
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Review of G. Lami, Ucraina 1921-1956 [Ukraine, 1921-1956], (Milano: CUEM, 2008), “Il
mestiere di Storico. Rivista della SISSCO”, vol. I (2009), no. 2, p. 195
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Reviews of K. BOECKH, E. VÖLKL, Ukraine: von der Roten zur Orangenen Revolution,
(Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet, 2007), “Il mestiere di Storico. Rivista della
(2010), no. 1, p. 119
SISSCO”,
vol. II
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Review of J. RUBENSTEIN, V.P. NAUMOV (eds.), Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Post-War
Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, (New Haven: Yale UP, 2001), “Il mestiere
di Storico. Rivista della SISSCO”, vol. II (2010), no. 1, pp. 90-91
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Review of S. MERLO, Una vita per gli ultimi: Le missioni dell’archimandrita Spiridon [A
Life for the Last Ones: The Missions of the Archimandrite Spiridon], (Magnano: Edizioni
Qiqajon, 2009); “Il mestiere di Storico. Rivista della SISSCO”, vol. II (2010), no. 1, p. 200
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Review of V. BUNCE, M. MCFAUL, K. STONER-WEISS (eds.), Democracy and
Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010),
«Southeastern Europe», vol. 36 no. 2 (May 2012), pp. 273-274
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Review of A.V. SHUBIN, Nestor Machno: Bandiera nera sull’Ucraina: Guerriglia libertaria
e rivoluzione contadina (1917-1921) [Nestor Makhno: Black Flag on Ukraine: Libertarian
Guerrilla and Peasant Revolution (1917-1921)], (Milano: Elèuthera, 2012), «L’indice dei
libri del mese», vol. XXIX no. 9 (September 2012), p. 44
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Review of R. DI LEO, L’esperimento profano: Dal capitalismo al socialismo e viceversa
[The Profane Experiment.:From Capitalism to Socialism and Back], (Roma: Ediesse, 2012),
«L’indice dei libri del mese», vol. XXIX no. 9 (September 2012), p. 45
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Review of A.D. MCVAY, L.Y. LUCIUK (eds.), The Holy See and the “Holodomor”:
Documents from the Vatican Secret Archives on the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet
Ukraine, (Kingston: The Kashtan Press, 2011), «Europe-Asia Studies», vol. 65 no. 1
(January 2013), pp. 174-175
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Review of L. MONZALI, Amanullah e l’Afghanistan nella politica estera italiana 1919-1943
[Amanullah and Afghanistan in Italian Foreign Policy 1919-1943], (Firenze: Le Lettere,
2012), «L’indice dei libri del mese», vol. XXX no. 4 (April 2013), p. 46
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Review of B. MAZOHL e P. POMBENI (eds.), Minoranze negli imperi: Popoli fra identità
nazionale e ideologia imperiale [Minorities in the Empires: Between National Identities and
Imperial Ideology] (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013), «L’indice dei libri del mese», vol. XXX no.
5 (maggio 2013), p. 46
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Review of M. CAMPUS (ed.), Sviluppo, crisi, integrazione: Temi di storia delle relazioni
internazionali per il XXI secolo [Development, Crisis, Integration: Essays on the History of
International Affairs for the 21st Century] (Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2013), «L’indice dei
libri del mese», vol. XXX no. 7/8 (July/August 2013), p. 44
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Review of P.R. JOSEPHSON, Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism
under Socialism, 1917-1989 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010),
forthcoming in «Snodi. Pubblici e privati nella storia contemporanea», no. 11 (2013), pp.
96-98
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Review of P. BUSHKOVITCH, A Concise History of Russia (New York: Cambridge UP, 2012)
in «L’indice dei libri del mese», vol. XXX no. 10 (October 2013), p. 43
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Review of C. KING, Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (New York: W.W.
Norton and Co., 2011), in «L’indice dei libri del mese», vol. XXXI no. 1 (January 2014), p.
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Comments and current affairs publications:
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A Non-Aligned Bridge? Ukraine after Yanukovych’s Election Victory, «Policy Brief», no.
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185, ISPI (Institute for the Study of International Politics, Milano), May 2010, pp. 1-7,
http://www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicazione/non-aligned-bridge-ukraine-after-yanukovychselection-victory-0
Le ragioni di una sconfitta politica: l’Ucraina dalla crisi economica all’emergenza
sanitaria [The Reasons for a political defeat: Ukraine from economic crisis to sanitary
emergency], in F. Privitera (ed.), Guida ai paesi dell’Europa orientale e balcanica.
Annuario politico-economico 2010, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011, pp. 39-46
Barricate senza alternativa [Barricades without Alternatives], Lettera internazionale no. , Il
Mulino rivista online, 27th January 2014,
ORGANISED CONFERENCES
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Co-organiser of a series of six interdisciplinary seminars entitled Relazioni fra le
generazioni [Relations among Generations], at the Department of Historical Studies of the
University of Turin from 7 November 2012 to 29 March 2013 (speakers: Miguel Gotor,
Emma Mana, Chiara Barbasio, Stefano De Martino, Vanessa Maher, Maria Beatrice Failla,
Gelsomina Spione, Michael Eve, Luciano Allegra)
Co-organizer of the Fifth Annual European Summer School on Cold War History of the
London School of Economics and the University of Trento, which took place in Trento on
4-7 September 2013
Co-organizer of the Conference Forme di trasmissione di valori e pratiche tra le
generazioni [Forms of Transmission of Values and Practices among Generations], at the
Department of Historical Studies of the University of Turin from 5 to 6 December 2013
(speakers: Loredana Sciolla, Abdón Mateos Lopéz, Roberta Zanini, Nathalie Heinich,
Daniela Lombardi, Anna Badino, Giovanni Levi, Luisa Passerini)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
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From September 2013 member of the editorial board of the review “Snodi. Pubblici e privati
nella storia contemporanea”
From September 2011 member of the Permanent Seminar on Generations of Turin
From December 2009 member of the AISU – Italian Association of Ukrainian Studies
From September 2004 member of the SISSCO – Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia
Contemporanea [Italian Association for the Study of Contemporary History]
Collaboration to the project “Lexique – Une bibliographie des dictionaires historiques”, a
branch of the European project “ESSE Pour un espace des sciences sociales européen”
directed by Olivier Christin (University of Lyon II)

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