Hugh Phillips

Professor of History
Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1985
Fields: Russia, Modern Europe
Office: 230A Cherry Hall
Phone: (270) 745-5738
Email: hugh.phillips(at)wku.edu
Curriculum Vita

 

Research Interests:

 

My scholarly interests are the Russian revolution and the civil war, 1917-1921; Soviet foreign policy, 1917-1945; contemporary Russian politics and international diplomacy, 1815-1945. My major publications include Between the Revolution and the West: A Political Biography of Maxim M. Litvinov (Westview Press, 1992), and articles in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Slavic Review, Diplomatic History, Problems of Communism, Revolutionary Russia, and the Encyclopedia of U. S. Foreign Relations. I have publications in the Occasional Papers series of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, an article on U.S.-Soviet relations, 1917-1946 and a "mini-monograph" on the Russian presidential election of 1996. My research has been supported by the International Research and Exchanges Board, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and the American Council of Teachers of Russian.

Teaching Interests:

 

Besides the two-semester survey of Russian history, I teach courses in the history of communism and European historiography.

 

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