KRISTINA V. MINKOVA

Dr. Sci. (History). Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Associate Professor of American Studies Department, Deputy Director of Canadian Studies Centre

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5833-6808

RSCI: SPIN-code: 3457-4727, AuthorID: 730215

ResearcherID: M-6859-2016

Scopus: 56401887900

E-mail: k.minkova@spbu.ru, kristina_minkova@mail.ru

EDUCATION

Saint-Petersburg State University, International Relations Faculty

2001 – Bachelor’s Degree in Area Studies (European Studies), graduated with honors

2003 – Master’s Degree in Area Studies (American Studies)

DEGREES AND TITLES

2006 – Cand. Sci. (History), dissertation on the topic “Liberalization of international multilateral trade and the WTO in the second half of the 20th – early 21st centuries”

2023 – Dr. Sci. (History), dissertation on the topic “Soviet-American economic relations in 1943–1947 and the emergence of the Cold War”

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2000–2003 – Secretary of Science Department of International Relations Faculty of Saint-Petersburg State University

2002–2007 – Analyst and Department Head of Baltic Research Center

2008–2015 – Head of Analytical Department of National Roofing Trade Union

2009–2010 – Analyst at the International Institute for Monitoring the Development of Democracy of Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States

2016– Head of Scientific Department of the scholarly journal “Klio”

2016–2023 – Senior Lecturer of American Studies Department of Saint-Petersburg State University

2020 – present time – Deputy Director of Canadian Studies Centre of Saint-Petersburg State University

2023 – present time – Associate Professor of American Studies Department of Saint-Petersburg State University

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTERESTS

Economic origins of the Cold War, Soviet/Russian-American relations, history of international trade, Canadian studies (paradiplomacy, Canadian history and foreign policy, features of Canadian federalism)

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL WORK

Member of the Russian Society for the Study of Canada

Expert of Scientific Research Institute – Federal Research Centre for Projects Evaluation and Consulting Services

GRANTS RECEIVED

2005, 2017 – Research grant from J.F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Free University of Berlin

2018 – Truman Library Research Grant (USA)

2019 – Roosevelt Library Research Grant (USA)

SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS OF RECENT YEARS

Articles

Sovetsko-amerikanskie peregovory po uregulirovaniyu platezhei po lend-lizu (1946–1948) [Soviet-American negotiations to settle Lend-Lease payments (1946–1948)]. Amerikanskii ezhegodnik = American Yearbook, 2023, no. 2023, pp. 124-140.

Book review: Bystrova, I.V. (2022). The British Ally: Organization of Military and Economic Supplies to the USSR in 1941–1945. Moscow, Ves’ mir publ., 576 p. Vestnik RUDN. Seriya: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya = Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2023, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 205-208. https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2023-23-1-205-208

The problem of choosing the candidate of the new us ambassador in the USSR in 1941–1942 (according to new archival documents). Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 4: Istoriya. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya = Science Journal of VolSU. History. Area Studies. International Relations, 2022, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 58-66. https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2022.2.5

“Economic and trade relations between the Soviet Union and America will grow and strengthen”: Eric Johnston’s visit to the USSR in 1944. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 8: Istoriya = Moscow University Bulletin. Series 8: History, 2022, no. 1, pp.88-107.

Canada-Russia subnational cooperation in the Arctic. In: Mapping Arctic Paradiplomacy: Limits and Opportunities for Sub-National Actors in Arctic Governance. London, Routledge, 2021, 21 p. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003131311

Canada’s participation in lend-lease supplies to the soviet union. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii, posvyashchennoi 80-letiyu prikhoda v Arkhangel’sk pervogo soyuznogo konvoya «Dervish» «Lend-liz i arkticheskie konvoi: ot regional’nogo sotrudnichestva k global’noi koalitsii» [Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference Dedicated to the 80th Anniversary of the Arrival of the First Allied Convoy “Dervish” in Arkhangelsk “Lend-Lease and Arctic Convoys: from Regional Cooperation towards Global Coalition”]. Arkhangelsk, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov Publ., 2021, pp. 148-163.

Post-war Soviet Union as two American diplomats saw it. Novaya i noveishaya istoriya = Modern and Contemporary History, 2020, no. 5, pp. 181-197. https://doi.org/10.31857/S013038640011369-3

Credit issue in Soviet-American relations, 1944-1947. SSHA i Kanada: ehkonomika, politika, kul’tura = Usa & Canada: Economics, Polinics, Culture, 2020, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 75-91. https://doi.org/10.31857/S268667300009771-8

Books

Ehkonomicheskie istoki kholodnoi voiny: sovetsko-amerikanskie otnosheniya v 1943–1947 gg. [Economic Origins of the Cold War: Soviet-American Relations 1943–1947]. St. Petersburg, Skifia-Print Publ., 2021, 504 p.

Severnye soyuzniki: SSSR i Kanada v gody Vtoroi mirovoi voiny [Northern Allies: USSR and Canada during World War II]. St. Petersburg, Skifia-Print Publ., 2020, 340 p. (in co-authorship)

Istoriya stran Severnoi Ameriki [History of North America]. St. Petersburg, Skifia-Print Publ., 2018, 268 p. (in co-authorship)