Prof. Dr. Elena A. Vishlenkova

Elena Vishlenkova is professor of History and an expert in the History of the Tsardom and the Soviet Union. Her research focus is on Medical History, Visual and Educational History of the Russian Empire.

In 2012 she founded the Centre for University Studies at the Moscow Higher School of Economics. This was followed in 2019 by the founding of the Centre for the History of Medicine. She has been a Guest Researchers at the Universities of Tübingen (2006), Mainz (2008) and Regensburg (2010) and headed a German-Russian research project on the History of Medical Geography of the Tsardom together with Prof. Andreas Renner. Her current research focus is Soviet Biopolitics, the History of the Pharmaceutical Market as well as Soviet Health Care Reforms.

CV

• 10/2022 - 03/2023 Fellowship, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
• 04-09 2022 Fellowship, Research Institute, Deutsches Museum, Munich
• 2009-2022 Ordinary Professor, National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow
  Vice Director of the A.V. Poletaev Institute for Historical und Theoretical Studies (IGITI) and Director of the Centre for University Studies at the HSE
• 1999-2009 Professor and Tenant of the Chair for Russian History, Kazan State University
• 1999 Habilitation (Doktor nauk), Kazan State University
• 1997-1999 Associate Professor, Kazan State University
• 1992-1997 Assistant Professor, Kazan State University
• 1992 PhD (Kandidat nauk), Kazan State University

Publications

Books

• Klubi i getto sovetskogo zdravoochranenija (‘Clubs’ and ‘Ghettos’ of Soviet Health Care). Moskau: SHIKO, 2022. 347 S. - zusammen mit S. Zatravkin
• Russkie Professora: Universitetskaja korporativnost’ ili professional’naja solidarnost’ (Russian professors: University corporation or professional solidarity). Moskau 2012. 567 S. - zusammen mit R. Galjulinna, K. Il’ina
• Vizual’noe narodovedenie ili: Uvidet’ russkogo dano ne každomu, Moskau 2011. 390 p.
• Kul’tura povsednevnosti provintsial’nogo goroda (Culture of everyday life of provincial town). Kazan, 2008. 384 S. - zusammen mit S. Ju. Malyševa und A.A. Salnikova
• Terra Universitatis: Dva veka universitetskoj kul’tury v Kazani (Terra Universitatis: Two century of University Culture in Kazan). Kazan, 2005. 500 S. zusammen mit S. Ju. Malyševa und A.A. Salnikova
• Kazanskij Universitet Alexandrovskoj ėpochi (Kazan University in the epoch of Alexander I), Kazan 2003, 267 p.
• "Zabotyas’ o dušach poddannych": Religioznaja politika v Rossii pervoj četverti XIX veka (Religious policy in Russia of the first quarter of XIXth Century). Saratov, 2002. 464 S.
• Religioznaja politika: oficial’nyi kurs i obščhee mnenie Alexandrovskoi ėpochi (Religious Policy: official politics and "general opinion" in Alexandrine Russia). Kazan 1997, 188 S.

Edited Volumes

• Istorija mediciny i medicinskoj geograffii v Rossijskoj Imperii (History of Medicine and Medical Geography in the Russian Empire). Moscow: «SHIKO», 2021 - zusammen mit A. Renner
• Sad učenykh naslaždenij (Garden of academic delights). Moscow: Publishing House ‘Higher School of Economics’, 2017 - zusammen mit A. Dmitriev und N. Samutina
• Biografii universiteckich archivov (Biographies of University Archives): Moscow: Publishing House ‘Higher School of Economics’, 2017 - zusammen mit K. Iliana und V. Parsamov
• Izobretenie ėpochi. Problemi i modeli vremeni v Evrope i Rossii XIX veka (Invention of the epoch. Problems and models of the times in the XIXth Europe and Russia). Moscow, 2013. 476 S. - zusammen mit D. Sdvizkov
• Soslovie russkich professorov. Sozdateli statusov I smislov (Estate of Russian professors. Designers of statuses and meanings). Moscow, 2013. 384 S. - zusammen mit I. Savelieva.
• Sotvorenie istorii (Creating of History). Kazan, 2000. 234 S.

Articles (selection)

• Russkaja farmacevtičeskaya otrasl’ v 1990-e godi. Soobščenie 1: Ot Sovetskogo k rinočnomu (The Russian pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s. Report 1: From Soviet to Market Economy), in: Problemy social’noj gigieni, obščestvennogo zdorov’ja i istorii mediciny. 2022. Т. 30. № 1. S. 160-166, - zusammen mit S.N. Zatravkin und V.G. Ignat‘ev
• Epidemičeskie karti I tablicy vtoroj polovony XIX veka kak passporta zdorov’ya rossijskich territorij (Epidemic and sanitary maps of the second half of XIX century as "passports of health" of Russian territories), in: Hygiena i Sanitariya. 2022. Vol.101, N 1. S.101-106- zusammen mit S.N.Zatravkin
• Medical Geography in Tsarist Russia: A Transnational Concept at the Service of the Empire, 1770-1870, in: Jahrbücher fur Geschichte Osteuropas. Vol.69, 2021, №1. S. 3-29 - zusammen mit A. Afanas’eva und A. Renner
• Sostojanie v vozmozhnosti sovetskogo zdravoochranenija v 1960-1980-e godi (The State and Possibilities of Soviet Health Care in 1960-1980s), in: Problemy social’noj gigieni, obščestvennogo zdorov’ja i istorii mediciny. 2021. Vol. 29. № 1. Pp. 153-160 - zusammen mit S.N.Zatravkin und V.V. Chalova.
• Uchudshenie zdorov’ja sovetskich ljudei v ėpokhu zastoja (Deterioration of Soviet people's health in the era of stagnation), in: Problemy social’noj gigieni, obščestvennogo zdorov’ja i istorii žmediciny 2021. Vol. 29. № 2. S .358-369 - zusammen mit S.N. Zatravkin
• Istorija farmacii. Lekarstvennji golod 1992/1993 godov: slagaemie kollapsa (History of pharmacy. Medication famine of 1992/93: the components of collapse), in: Pharmacia. 2021. Vol. 70. № 5. Pp. 35-42 - zusammen mit S.N. Zatravkin.
• A Ghost Textbook on the History of Medicine: A Case Study of the Legacy of a Stalinist Scholarly Canon, in: European Education. 2020. Vol. 52. No. 3. P. 257-270 - zusammen mit S.N. Zatravkin
• Vosstanovlenie ili sozsanie: poslevoennaja reforma sovetskogo zdravoochraneniya (Restoration or Creation?: Postwar Reform of Soviet Health Care), in: Problemy social’noj gigieni, obščestvennogo zdorov’ja i istorii mediciny, 2020. Vol.28 (5). P.1011-1016 - zusammen mit S.N. Zatravkin
• Radikal’nyj povorot: dovoennaja reforma sovetskogo zdravoochranenija ("Radical Break": Prewar Reform of Soviet Health Care), in: Quaestio Rossica. 2020, Vol. 8, №2. Pp.318-332 - zusammen mit S.N. Zatravkin und E.V. Sherstneva
• Principi sovetskoj mediciny: istorija sozdanija (Principles of Soviet Medicine: History of Creation), in: Problemy social’noj gigieni, obščestvennogo zdorov’ja i istorii mediciny 2020. Vol.28 (3). P.491-498 - zusammen mit S.N. Zatravkin
• Early Soviet Medicine: digital and narrative utopies, in: Kwartalnik Historii nauki I techniki= Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology. 2019, N 4. P.83-106 - zusammen mit S.N. Zatravkin
• Polish Medicine in the Russian Empire in the first third of the XIXth c., in: Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology. 2019, N 2. Р.61-78 - zusammen mit S.N. Zatravkin
• The Time of State-Building Discoveries: Governing techniques in health care and education, in: The Enigmatic Tsar and his Empire: Russia under Alexander I, 1801-1825 / Ed. by A. Kaplunovsky, J. Kusber, B. Conrad. Mainz: Peter Lang, 2019. P. 219-244
• The State of Health: Balancing Power, Resources, and Expertise and the Birth of the Medical Profession in the Russian Empire, in: Ab Imperio. 2016, N 3. P. 39-75
• Der Krieg von 1812 im Spiegel der visuellen Kultur, in: Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke Gesellschaft (HMRG) 2012, N 25. S.126-139.
• “Vypolnjaja vračebnye objazannosti, ja poznal duch narodnyi: samosoznanie vrača kak prosvetitelja rossijskogo gosudarstva (pervaja polovina XIX veka ("Performing medical duties, I comprehended the spirit of the people": Self-consciousness of the doctor as an enlightener of the Russian state (first half of XIX century), in: Ab Imperio. 2011, № 2. P. 47-82.