I live in Melbourne, Australia, and my professional activities at the moment are in the area of Information Technology.
I have completed my Ph.D. in 1998, and my interests are in the Russian history of the 19th and 20th centuries. My thesis was in the social and cultural history of Odessa during World War I, the Revolutions of 1917 and the Russian Civil War, and in the way in which the city responded to the collapse of the central authority of the Russian Empire during this period. My general interests in history are frontier societies (like Odessa in the Russian Empire), their characteristics (social, economic and cultural) and the way in which they interacted with the central authorities.
Apart from my Ph.D. thesis, I have written the following history-related works:
Artur Anatra, Odessan Entrepreneur, 1914-1919 Appeared in The Historian (Michigan State University), 61(2), Winter 1999
Jewish Community and the Wider Society. The Universal Jewish Day of Mourning in Odessa, February 25, 1919 Appeared in The Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press)
The Odessa Maccabi 1917-20: The Development of Sport and Physical Culture in Odessa’s Jewish Community Appeared in East European Jewish Affairs (Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London), 28(2), Winter 1998-99
Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe Appeared in History Highway 2000, Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott Merriman (project editors), M. E. Sharpe Inc., Armonk, NY, 2000
Local Government and Administration and Potemkin Mutiny Written for Encyclopaedia of Russian History, James R Millar, editor in chief, Macmillan Reference USA, New York 2004
