ד"ר ורה קפלן

תחומי התעניינותה והתמחותה האקדמית של ד''ר ורה קפלן  הינם היסטוריה חברתית ותרבותית של רוסיה ותולדות החינוך ברוסיה. ד''ר קפלן כתבה מספר מאמרים ופרקים העוסקים בתולדות החינוך ברוסיה האימפריאלית ובמדיניות החינוך והוראת ההיסטוריה ברוסיה הפוסט-סובייטית. שני ספרים בנושא יצאו לאור בעריכתה:

The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia: Trends and Perspectives (1999, with Pinchas Agmon and Liubov Ermolaeva )

Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects (2005, with Ben Eklof and Larry E. Holmes).

פרויקט המחקר האחרון של ד''ר קפלן, הנתמך על ידי הקרן הלאומית למדע, עסק בסוגיית האגודות הוולונטריות ברוסיה האימפריאלית. המחקר התמקד באגודות אשר שמו להן למטרה לקדם את הידע ההיסטורי בקרב העם הרוסי (http://humanities.tau.ac.il/vera_kaplan_project/). כעת היא מכינה לפרסום ספר בו יוצגו תוצאות מחקר זה.

המחקר החדש שלה, שנושא את השם "לשרוד את המהפכה", מתמקד בחיי קהילת ההיסטוריונים ברוסיה לפני מהפכות 1917, במהלכן ואחריהן. המאמר הראשון שלה בנושא שכותרתו:" Weathering the Revolution: Patronage as a Strategy of Survival" פורסם בכתב העת  Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2013 ונכלל ברשימת עשרת המאמרים הנקראים ביותר של כתב עת זה.

Dr. Vera Kaplan is a senior lecturer in the Department of History and Director of the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University (since 2015). Her research interests lie in the areas of cultural and social history and the history of education in Russia, focusing especially on history as a profession. Her book Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia was published by Indiana University Press in March 2017.

She has written articles and book chapters devoted to the history of the Russian revolution of 1917, including:  “A Dress Rehearsal for Cultural Revolution: Bolshevik Policy towards Teachers and Education between February and October, 1917,” History of Education, Special Issue:  Making Education Soviet, 1917–1953, 35, no. 4-5 ( July–September 2006): 427–452,  “Recent Israeli Historiography of the 1917 Revolution(s),” Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography, 9, no. 1 (2016):  65-88; and “Historical Societies and the Formation of the Memory on the February Revolution,” (published in Russian: “Istoricheskie obshchestva i formirovanie pamiati o Fevrale v 1917”) in Boris Kolonitskii and  Daniel Orlovskii, eds., Epokha voin i revoliutsii (The Epoch of Wars and Revolutions) (St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2017), 37-49. In addition, she co-edited (together with Dr. Dina Moyal) a special issue of the historical journal Zmanim (Times, issued in Hebrew) devoted to the centenary of the Russian Revolution.

Her current research project, entitled “Weathering the revolution,” explores how historians responded to and lived through the great event of their time. The preliminary results of this project have been presented in her articles  “Weathering the Revolution: Patronage as a Strategy of Survival,” Revolutionary Russia 26, no. 2 (2013): 97–127, “Documenting the Russian Revolution” (In Hebrew), Historia, vol. 42, no.1 (2019): 81-114, “Two archives of the Russian revolution,” Archival Science (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-020-09342-z , as well as in the book chapter “What Did Historians Do at the Time of the Great Revolution?” in Matthias Neumann  and Andrew Willimott, eds.,  Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide (London: Routledge, 2018), 186-214.

מילות מפתח: היסטוריה רוסית, תולדות החינוך, אגודות וולונטריות, היסטוריה כמקצוע

 

אני חוקרת ומלמדת היסטוריה רוסית בהקשר הרחב יותר של היסטוריה אירופאית. המחקר שלי עוסק בהיסטוריה  החברתית והתרבותית של רוסיה בתקופה האימפריאלית ובזמן מהפכת 1917 ששינתה באופן דרמטי את המדינה ואת החברה ברוסיה. אני מתעניינת במיוחד בתולדות החינוך, בפעילות האגודות הוולונטריות ובהיסטוריה כמקצוע. סוגיות אלו נדונו בספר האחרון שלי, Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia, והן מרכזיות גם למחקר הנוכחי שלי, שכותרתו הטנטטיבית הינה "לשרוד את המהפכה". מחקר זה מתמקד בחיי ההיסטוריונים הרוסים לפני, במהלך ולאחר המהפכות של ה-1917. התוצאות הראשוניות של מחקר זה הוצגו במאמר:

“Weathering the Revolution: Patronage as a Strategy of Survival,” Revolutionary Russia, 26, no. 2 (2013): 97–127   

ובפרק מהספר:

Matthias Neumann  and Andrew Willimott (eds.),  Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide (London: Routledge, 2018), 186-214.

I study and teach Russian history in the broader context of European history. My research deals with cultural and social aspects of life in Imperial Russia (eighteenth –early twentieth centuries) and with the history of the 1917 Revolution, which so dramatically changed the Russian state and society. I am especially interested in the development of education, of voluntary associations and of history as a profession. These themes were examined in my recent book Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia (2017) and they have remained central for my current project, “Weathering the Revolution,” which explores how historians lived before, during and after the 1917 Revolution and how they responded to the great event of their time. The preliminary results of this research have been presented in “Weathering the Revolution: Patronage as a Strategy of Survival,” Revolutionary Russia, 26, no. 2 (2013): 97–127, and “What Did Historians Do at the Time of the Great Revolution?” in Matthias Neumann and Andrew Willimott (eds.), Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide (London: Routledge, 2018), 186-214.

Books

     Vera Kaplan, K tebe dusha izdaleka: Po vospominaniiam Rakheli Blekhman (Rachel Blechman’s life) (Tel Aviv: Piles Studio Publisher, 2000).

 

1. Vera Kaplan, Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2017).

(Reviewed in: Russian Review, vol. 77, no. 2 (April 2018): 316-317, by Joseph Bradley; in American Historical Review, vol. 123, no. 3 (June 2018): 1046–1047, by Alexey Miller; in Slavic Review, vol. 77, no. 3 (Fall 2018): 833-834, by Thomas Sanders; and in Vestnik St. Peterburgskogo universiteta: Istoriia,  vol. 64, no. 1 (2019): 304-310, by Anton Sveshnikov). 

Edited books

 

Vera Kaplan, Pinchas Agmon and Liubov Ermolaeva (eds.), The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia: Trends and Perspectives (Tel Aviv: Cummings Center, 1999).

 

Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes and Vera Kaplan (eds.), Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects (London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2005).

 

Vera Kaplan and Dina Moyal, guest-editors, Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, no. 137 (2017).

 

Peer-reviewed articles

 

V.L. Lebedeva (Kaplan), “Education in Russia on the Eve of 1917” (in Russian: “Narodnoe obrazovanie v Rossii nakanune 1917 goda”), Institute of  Scientific Information in Social Science,  Academy of Science,  USSR,  18.06.1986,  no. 25582, (23 p.)

 

1. Vera Kaplan, “Petrograd Jews in 1917,” Shvut, vol. 5, no. 21 (1997): 81-95.

 

Vera Kaplan, “The Reform of Education in Russia and the Problem of History Teaching,” Education in Russia, the Independent States and Eastern Europe, vol. 17, no. 1 (1999): 3–19.

 

1. Vera Kaplan, “A Dress Rehearsal for Cultural Revolution: Bolshevik Policy towards Teachers and Education between February and October, 1917,” History of Education, Special Issue: Making Education Soviet, 1917–1953, vol. 35, no. 4-5 (July–September 2006): 427–452.

 

Vera Kaplan, “‘Take this Waltz’: Comments on the ‘The School Waltz’: The Everyday Life of the Post-Stalinist Soviet Classroom by Catriona Kelly” Forum for Anthropology and Culture, no. 3 (2006): 372-377.

 

Vera Kaplan, “The History of Reform in Russian Higher Education,” European Education, Issue: Higher Education in the Russian Federation (1), vol. 39, no. 2 (2007): 37–59.

 

Vera Kaplan, “The Vicissitudes of Socialism in Russian History Textbooks,” History and Memory, vol. 21, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2009): 83–109.

 

Vera Kaplan, “From Soslovie to Voluntary Associations: New Patterns of Collective Identities in Late Imperial Russia,” Cahiers du Monde russe, vol. 51, no. 2–3 (2010): 369–396.

 

Moshe Gammer and Vera Kaplan, “Post-Soviet Narratives of   the Conquest of the Caucasus,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 60, no. 1 (2013): 26-46.

 

Vera Kaplan, “Weathering the Revolution: Patronage as a Strategy of Survival,” Revolutionary Russia, vol. 26, no. 2 (2013): 97–127.

 

Vera Kaplan, “Recent Israeli Historiography of the 1917 Revolution(s),” Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography, vol. 9, no. 1 (2016): 65-88.

 

Vera Kaplan, “One Hundred Years After: What Happened to the Russian Revolution? (in Hebrew:

מאה שנה אחרי: מה עלה בגורלה של המהפכה הרוסית?), Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, no. 137 (2017): 4-9.

Vera Kaplan, “Documenting the Russian Revolution” (in Hebrew: לתעד את המהפכה הרוסית ), Historia, vol. 42, no.1 (2019): 81-114.

 

Vera Kaplan, “Two archives of the Russian revolution,” Archival Science (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-020-09342-z

 

Chapters in books

 

V.L. Lebedeva (Kaplan), “Social Status of Teachers in Russia (1900–1917)” (Ii Russian: “Sotsial’noe polozhenie uchitelei Rossii,1900–1917”) in F.Z. Khodiachii (ed.), Pedagogical Intelligentsia: Social and Political Problems (Pedagogicheskaia intelligentsiia: sotsial’nye i politicheskie problemy) (Leningrad: LGPI, 1988), 94–101.

 

V.L. Lebedeva (Kaplan), “Bolshevik Activities among Petrograd’s Teachers in the Period of Transition from  Bourgeois-Democratic to Socialist Revolution” (in Russian: “Rabota partii bol’shevikov sredi uchitelei Petrograda v period perekhoda ot burzhuazno-demokraticheskoi k sotsialisticheskoi revolutsii”), in O.N. Znamenskii (ed).,  Russia’s Working Class, Its Allies and Political Rivals in 1917(Rabochii klass, ego soiuzniki i politicheskie protivniki v 1917 godu) (Leningrad: Nauka, 1989), 52–60.

 

V.L. Lebedeva-Kaplan, “The ‘Jewish Tribune’ on Russia and Russian Jewry, Paris, 1920–1924” (in Russian: “‘Evreiskaia tribuna’ o Rossii i russkom evreistve”), in Michael Parkhomovsky (ed.), Jews in the Culture of Russia Abroad (Evrei v kul’ture russkogo zarubezh’ia) (Jerusalem, 1993), 167–180.

 

V.L. Lebedeva-Kaplan, “Three Missives from 1919: From the History of Jewish Culture in Petrograd” (in Russian: “Tri pis’ma iz 1919 goda: iz istorii evreiskoi kul’tury Petrograda”), in D.A. El’iashevich (ed.), Istoriia evreev v Rossii: Problemy istocnhikovedeniia i istoriografii: Sbornik  nauchnykh trudov (St. Petersburg, 1993), 134–147. 

 

Vera Kaplan and Boris Morozov, “Towards a Multiparty System, 1985–1993,” in Nurit Schleifman (ed.), Russia at a Crossroads:  History, Memory and Political Practice (London: Frank Cass, 1998), 173-227.

 

Vera Kaplan, “The Concept of Socialism in Russian History Textbooks” (in German: “Die Überwindung der sozialistischen Vergangenheit in den rußländischen Schulbüchern der 90er Jahre: der ‘Sozialismus’ –Begriff im Wandel”), in Isabelle de Keghel & Robert Maier (eds.), Auf den Kehrichthaufen der Geschichte? Der umgang mit sozialistischen Vergangenheit, (Hannover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1999), 115–131.

 

Vera Kaplan, “Introduction,” in Vera Kaplan, Pinchas Agmon and Liubov Ermolaeva (eds.), The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia: Trends and Perspectives (Tel Aviv: Cummings Center, 1999), 1-12.

 

Vera Kaplan, “Searching for a Path to Europe: The European Dimension in Russian History Textbooks” (in Italian: “Alla ricerca di un cammino verso l’Europo: la dimensione europea nei testi di storia del XX  secolo della Russia”), in Falk Pingel (ed.), Insegnare l’Europa: Concetti  e rappresentazioni  nei libri di testo europei (Torino: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 2003), 369–400.

 

Vera Kaplan, “State Policy and the Teaching of History in Post-Soviet Russia: Coming Full Circle?” in Martin Roberts (ed.), After the Wall: History Teaching in Europe Since 1989 (Hamburg: Koerber-Stiftung, 2004), 252–259. 

 

Vera Kaplan, “History Teaching in Post-Soviet Russia: Coping with Antithetical Traditions,” in Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes, Vera Kaplan (eds.), Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects (London: Frank Cass/Routledge, 2005), 247–271.

 

Vera Kaplan, “Historical Societies and the Projects for Historical Education” (in Russian: “Istoricheskie obshchestva i ideia istoricheskogo prosveshcheniia”) in Alexander Dmitriev (ed.), Istoricheskaia kul’tura imperatorskoi Rossii: Formirovanie predstavlenii o proshlom (The Historical Culture of Imperial Russia: The Formation of Perceptions of the Historical Past) (Moscow: Vysshaia Shkola Ekonomiki, 2012), 355 – 380.

 

Vera Kaplan, “From Formation to Civilization: the New Conceptual Language of Russian History Textbooks” in Korine Amacher and Wladimir Berelowitch (eds.), Les représentations historiques et la réécriture du passé dans la Russie post- soviétique (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Academia-Bruylant, Publications de l’Institut européen de l’Université de Genève, 2013), 145 – 170.

 

Vera Kaplan, “Historical Societies and Formation of Memory on the February Revolution” (in Russian: “Istoricheskie obshchestva i formirovanie pamiati o Fevrale v 1917”) in Boris Kolonitskii and Daniel Orlovskii, eds., Epokha voin i revoliutsii (The Epoch of Wars and Revolutions), (St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2017), 37 – 49.

 

Vera Kaplan, “What Did Historians Do at the Time of the Great Revolution?” in Matthias Neumann and Andrew Willimott (eds.), Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), 186 – 214.

 

Vera Kaplan, “We Have Left Petrograd for a Long Time, and Prefer to Live Where There Is No Red Banner Flying over the Kremlin,” [In Russian: “My nadolgo rasstalis’ s Petrogradom i predpochitaem zhit’ tam, gde nad Kremlem ne razvivaetsia  krasnofo flaga] in Nikolai Mikhailov and Marc Steinberg (eds.), Grazhdanskaia voina v Rossii: Zhizn’ v epokhu sotsial’nykh eksperimentov i voennykh ispytanii, 1917-1922 (The Era of the Russian Civil War: Life in a Time of Social Experimentation and Violence, 1917–1922), (St. Petersburg: Nestor-Historia, 2020), 109 – 125.