Professor Anthony Heywood

Professor Anthony Heywood The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Chair in History work +44 (0)1224 272640 pref t.heywood@abdn.ac.uk pref School of Divinity, History and Philosophy,
Crombie Annexe,
Meston Walk,
King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
Old Aberdeen,
AB24 3FX.
Room: 104

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Research Interests

Dr Heywood’s research interests lie mainly in Russian and Soviet history from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. His particular interests are the Russian/Soviet railway system and Russia’s participation in the First World War. He is also interested in inter-Allied relations with special reference to Russia’s foreign procurement policy.

His most recent book is a biography of the Russian railway engineer Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876-1952), published with Ashgate (2011). For full details see: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754655398

At present he is working on a study of Russia's railways in the First World War that will reassess the importance of railway transport difficulties as a cause of the February Revolution in 1917. This project was started with a 10-week research trip to St Petersburg in autumn 2010 funded by the British Academy and the Russian Academy of Sciences, and continued in 2011 with support from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

Dr Heywood is also co-organising (with Professor John W. Steinberg of Georgia Southern University and Professor David McDonald of the University of Wisconsin at Madison) an international collaborative project to mark the centenary of Russia's participation in World War I and the Russian revolutions. Entitled 'Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal', this project was launched formally in Aberdeen in July 2008 with a symposium funded by the British Academy, the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the University of Aberdeen. A public call for contributions was issued in 2008, with a deadline of February 2012 for submission of draft chapters. The project webpage is at http://web.ku.edu/~russiasgreatwar/cgi-bin/index.php

Principal publications (books and edited books):

Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876-1952) and the Railways  (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)

(co-edited with Jon Smele)  The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives  (London: Routledge, 2005)

Catalogue of the I.A. Bunin, V.N. Bunina, L.F. Zurov and E.M. Lopatina Collections (Leeds: Leeds University Press, 2000)

Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways  (Cambridge: CUP, 1999)

(with I.D.C. Button)  Soviet Locomotive Types: The Union Legacy  (Malmo: Stenvall, 1995)

 

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Collaborations

1.  Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal (with Professor John W. Steinberg, Georgia Southern University, and Professor David McDonald, University of Wisconsin at Madison)

This project was launched formally with a symposium at Aberdeen in July 2008. Initial funding has been secured from the British Academy, the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, the University of Aberdeen, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A public call for contributions was issued in July 2009. Project roundtable meetings have been held at the annual conferences of the ASEEES (formerly AAASS), Study Group on the Russian Revolution and BASEES, and project editorial meetings have been held in 2009 (Madison, WN) and 2010 (Uppsala, Sweden). The project's website is at: http://web.ku.edu/~russiasgreatwar/cgi-bin/index.php

2.  Digitisation of the Lomonossoff collection of photographic negatives

The Lomonossoff collection at the Leeds Russian Archive, University of Leeds, includes about 6,000 photographic negatives. Approximately 2,000 of these pictures were taken in Russia during 1902-15; the remainder were taken in Soviet Russia, Western Europe and North America between 1917 and about 1950. This project aims to make these images available for public use by identifying, sorting and digitising them. The technical work is being funded by a private donor who wishes to remain anonymous, but whose support is gratefully acknowledged here. The negatives are currently being sorted into the order in which they will be copied.

 

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Research Grants

Recent external grants include two grants for archival and library work in Russia concerning Russia's railways in WW1:

funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland to spend four weeks in St Petersburg in August-September 2011

funding from the British Academy and Russian Academy of Sciences Academic Exchange Programme to spend ten weeks in St Petersburg in autumn 2010.

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Teaching Responsibilities

• HI-1022 Europe in the 20th Century
• HI-2520 Global Empires in the Long Nineteenth Century
• HS-2503 History and Philosophy of Science II
• HI-301U/351U Imperial Russia, 1801-1914
• HI-3594 World War One: International Perspectives
• HI-4015 The Russian Revolution: Aspects of British-Russian Relations, 1917-1924
• HI-4512 Dissertation (supervision)
• HI 501F/551F End of Empire: Tsarist Russia in WW1, 1914-1917
• HI-5594  Research Preparation in Historical Studies

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External Responsibilities

Dr Heywood was Secretary of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution, 1997-2008. For further details about the Study Group, including membership and the annual conference, please see its webpage: www.basees.org.uk/sgrusrev.html

Editorial Board member: Revolutionary Russia; Journal of First World War Studies

Committee member, AHRC-funded project for postgraduate research training in Russian archives

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Heywood, AJ. (2011). 'Barriers to East-West Technology Transfer: Iu.V. Lomonosov and Diesel Railroad Engineering in the Interwar Period'. The Russian Review, vol 70, no. 3, pp. 440-459.
• Heywood, AJ. (2005). 'War Destruction and Remedial Work in the Early Soviet Economy: Myth and Reality on the Railroads'. The Russian Review, vol 64, no. 3, pp. 456-479.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9434.2005.00370.x
• Heywood, AJ. (2003). 'Russia's Foreign Supply Policy in World War I: Imports of Railway Equipment'. Journal of European Economic History, vol 31, no. 1, pp. 77-108.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Heywood, AJ. (2006). 'The Most Catastrophic Question: Railway Development and Military Strategy in Late Imperial Russia'. in: Railways and International Politics: Paths of Empire, 1848-1945. Railways and International Politics: Paths of Empire, 1848-1945, pp. 45-67.
• Heywood, AJ. (2005). 'Socialists, liberals and the Union of Unions in Kyiv during the 1905 Revolution'. in: The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives; eds Heywood, A.J., Smele, J. D.. The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives; eds Heywood, A.J., Smele, J. D., pp. 177-195.

Books and Reports

Books

• Heywood, AJ. (2011). 'Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876-1952) and the Railways'. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945, Ashgate, Farnham, United Kingdom.

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