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Professional
Present occupation Associate professor, Department of History, Culture and Civilization, University of Southern Denmark.
Head of the Centre for the Research of the Cold War

Research
History of Russia: Social History, Cultural History, History of Everyday life, and Political History

Major works
KGB : de russiske sikkerhedstjenester fra Ivan den Grusomme til Vladimir Putin, Aschehoug , København, 2007 (KGB, The Russian Security Services from Ivan IV to Vladimir Putin).
Det Røde Tyranni, Stalin, magten og samfundet 1879- 1953, Ascherhaug, København, 2005 (The Red Tyranni, Stalin, the Power and Society 1879-1953).
Stalins hjemmefront, Syddansk Universitetsforlag, Odense, 2004. (Stalin’s Homefront)
Dissent in the Years of Khrushchev. Nine Stories about Disobedient Russians, Palgrave, Macmillan, London, 2002 . Tretten historier om ulydige russere, Odense Universitetsforlag, Odense 1999
(With Mette Bryld ed.) Soviet civilization between past and present, Odense University Press , Odense, 1998
Russisk Nationalisme 1986-1992, Odense Universitetsforlag, Odense 1995
Propaganda og hverdagsliv i Rusland 1924-1936, Odense Universitetsforlag, Odense 1991. (Propaganda and Everyday Life in russia 1926-1936)
(Editor with Niels Erik Rosenfeldt, Bent Jensen), Mechanism of Power, Macmillan , London, 2000.


Administrative posts
Member of the Academic Council, University of Southern Denmark, Head of Centre for Russian and Eastern Europe Studies, Head of Center for the Studies of the Cold War, Member of the Council of the Department of History


2000-2001 Guest researcher at EUI, Firenze, Italia

1999-2000 Member of the planning committee for the School of Journalism, University of Southern Denmark

1998-2002 Planning and teaching courses (Summer University) for ph.d. students from the Baltic region

1996 Visiting professor at The Hoover Institution of Revolution, War and Peace, Stanford University, California

1995-2000 Administering the National Research network financed by the Danish Research council: Continuity and Change in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe

1993- Assistant professor, Centre for Russian Studies and Centre for History University of Southern Denmark

1985-1991 Managing a university based project supplying Danish exporters with information on the Soviet market
Lecturer at the Centre for Russian Studies

1983-1985 Research librarian

1982 Teachers training course

1981 Master’s degree in Russian studies (major) and in cultural Studies (minor) from Odense University

1979 Studies at the University of Voronezh, Russia

Forskningsområde

Research
History of Russia: Social History, Cultural History, History of Everyday life, and Political History

Major works
KGB : de russiske sikkerhedstjenester fra Ivan den Grusomme til Vladimir Putin, Aschehoug , København, 2007 (KGB, The Russian Security Services from Ivan IV to Vladimir Putin).
Det Røde Tyranni, Stalin, magten og samfundet 1879- 1953, Ascherhaug, København, 2005 (The Red Tyranni, Stalin, the Power and Society 1879-1953).
Stalins hjemmefront, Syddansk Universitetsforlag, Odense, 2004. (Stalin’s Homefront)
Dissent in the Years of Khrushchev. Nine Stories about Disobedient Russians, Palgrave, Macmillan, London, 2002 . Tretten historier om ulydige russere, Odense Universitetsforlag, Odense 1999
(With Mette Bryld ed.) Soviet civilization between past and present, Odense University Press , Odense, 1998
Russisk Nationalisme 1986-1992, Odense Universitetsforlag, Odense 1995
Propaganda og hverdagsliv i Rusland 1924-1936, Odense Universitetsforlag, Odense 1991. (Propaganda and Everyday Life in russia 1926-1936)
(Editor with Niels Erik Rosenfeldt, Bent Jensen), Mechanism of Power, Macmillan , London, 2000.

Works in progress

Monograph on the Russian Revolution

Russian edition of, Dissent in the Years of Khrushchev. Nine Stories about Disobedient Russians, Palgrave, Macmillan, London, 2002 .