Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

She is professor of history at West Chester University. She completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She writes and teaches about modern Russia and the Soviet Union, war and memory, international communism, and gender in modern Europe. Her research has focused on the linkages between the personal and political, investigating questions of how individuals - children who grew up in the wake of the Russian Revolution, survivors of the siege of Leningrad, volunteers in the International Brigades - came to represent their life stories as part of history. In 2016, she was awarded the Association for Women in Slavic Studies’ Outstanding Achievement Award.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3585-8512

BOOKS

PUBLICATIONS

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2025). Pen-pal diplomacy. Diplomatic History. https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaf023

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2024). Erik R. Scott. Defectors: How the illicit flight of Soviet citizens built the borders of the Cold War world. The American Historical Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae426

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2024). Introduction. Canadian-American Slavic Studies. https://doi.org/10.30965/22102396-05803018

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2024). Adventures in the land of the capitalists. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008914

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2017). The Russian Revolution and Spanish Communists, 1931–5. Journal of Contemporary History, 52(4), 804–825. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009417723974

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2017). The meaning of resilience: Soviet children in World War II. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 47(4), 523–547. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01053

Kirschenbaum, L. A., Forestier-Peyrat, É., & Pons, S. (2016). Débat autour de The global revolution: A history of international communism, 1917–1991 de Silvio Pons. Monde(s), 2016(2), 167–181. https://doi.org/10.3917/mond1.162.0167

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2015). International communism and the Spanish Civil War. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316226902

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2013). Constructing a Cold War epic: Harrison Salisbury and the siege of Leningrad. In Ch. F. Kelly & M. David-Fox (Eds.), Americans experience Russia: Encountering the enigma, 1917 to the present (pp. 233–247). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203082102

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2013). Small comrades. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315054704

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2012). Exile, gender, and communist self-fashioning: Dolores Ibárruri (La Pasionaria) in the Soviet Union. Slavic Review, 71(3), 566–589. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.71.3.0566

Kirschenbaum, L. (2011). Introduction: World War II in Soviet and post-Soviet memory. Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 38(1), 3–8. https://doi.org/10.1163/187633211X589088

Kirschenbaum, L. (2011). Remembering and rebuilding: Leningrad after the siege from a comparative perspective. Journal of Modern European History, 9(3), 314–330. https://doi.org/10.17104/1611-8944_2011_3_314

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2010). Nothing is forgotten: Individual memory and the myth of the Great Patriotic War. In M. Conway & P. Lagrou (Eds.), Histories of the aftermath: The legacies of the Second World War in Europe (pp. 193–210). Berghahn Books.

Kirschenbaum, L. A., Wingfield, N. M., & Gerwarth, R. (2009). Gender and the construction of wartime heroism in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. European History Quarterly, 39(3), 393–418. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691409105062

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2006). The legacy of the siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511511882

Kirschenbaum, L. A. (2000). “Our city, our hearths, our families”: Local loyalties and private life in Soviet World War II propaganda. Slavic Review, 59(4), 818–842. https://doi.org/10.2307/2697421

Kirschenbaum, L. (2000). Gender, memory, and national myths: Ol'ga Berghol'ts and the siege of Leningrad. Nationalities Papers, 28(3), 479–502. https://doi.org/10.1080/009059900750021427

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