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Robert Dale

Dr Robert Dale is Lecturer in Russian History, with a particular emphasis on twentieth-century Russian and Soviet history.  His research is focused primarily on the late Stalinist period (1945-1953), and explores the effects of the Great Patriotic War upon Soviet society and culture. 

His first monograph, Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad: Soldiers to Civilians, was published in 2015 by Bloomsbury Academic, and explores the demobilization and post-war readjustment of Red Army veterans in Leningrad and its environs after the Great Patriotic War.  He is currently working on a larger project exploring the post-war reconstruction of Soviet Russia in the wake of the Great Patriotic War, and has published articles and chapters exploring disabled veterans, post-war trauma, Soviet post-war masculinities, and the reconstruction of Soviet cities.