Matthew Kott
Researcher at Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Faculty
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- +46 18 471 53 55
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 97 95
- E-mail:
- matthew.kott@ires.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 3 tr
- Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Matthew Kott is an historian specialising in the Baltic Sea region, particularly Latvia in the 20th century. Other countries of key research interest include Norway, Sweden, and Belarus.
He is currently the editor of Journal of Baltic Studies, and a recognised expert for the Latvian Council of Science (Latvijas Zinātnes padome).
Keywords
- antiziganism
- baltic sea region
- communism
- fascism
- history
- history of racism
- holocaust and genocide studies
- latvia
- military history
- social history
Publications
Recent publications
- From the Editor (2024)
- Valters Nollendorfs, Valters Ščerbinskis (eds.). The Impossible Resistance: Latvia Between Two Totalitarian Regimes 1940–1991. (Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia, Vol. 29). Rīga: Zinātne, 2021. 264 pp. ISBN 9789934599163 (2023)
- Why Was There No FEMEN in the Baltic States? (2023)
- Gaming the System (2022)
- The ghosts of Poltava (2022)
All publications
Articles
- From the Editor (2024)
- Valters Nollendorfs, Valters Ščerbinskis (eds.). The Impossible Resistance: Latvia Between Two Totalitarian Regimes 1940–1991. (Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia, Vol. 29). Rīga: Zinātne, 2021. 264 pp. ISBN 9789934599163 (2023)
- The ghosts of Poltava (2022)
- Violent resistance (2021)
- Review of Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism, by J. Subotić (2021)
- Birgitta Almgren, Krossade illusioner: Fallet Hermann Kappner och nazistisk infiltration i Sverige 1933–1945 (Stockholm: Carlssons 2019). 440 s (2020)
- Intermarium (2019)
- Detangling Putin's web in the West (2018)
- Antisemitism in Contemporary Latvia (2018)
- Review of Mischka's War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York, by Sheila Fitzpatrick (2018)
- From the editor (2018)
- Review of British intelligence and Hitler’s empire in the Soviet Union, 1941–1945 by Ben Wheatley (2018)
- Review of War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe, by Ángel Alcalde (2018)
- Review of Violeta Davoliūtė, The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War (2017)
- A far right hijack of Intermarium (2017)
- Review of Aiz šiem vārtiem vaid zeme: Salaspils nometne, 1941–1944 (2017)
- From the editor (2017)
- Review of Sweden after Nazism: Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War by Johan Östling (2017)
- Belarus's "Angry" Protests (2017)
- Review of Rita Ruduša, Pagrīdes citādība: Homoseksuāļi Padomju Latvijā (2016)
- A struggle for ideals (2016)
- Guest Editors’ Note (2016)
- Becoming more "European" – in the wrong way (2015)
- Rysskräck and Sweden's Ambivalence (2015)
- The rise and fall of Belarusian nationalism, 1906–1931 (2015)
- In the Tracks of Breivik (2015)
- Latvia’s Pērkonkrusts (2015)
- Guest Editors’ Note (2015)
- Björn M. Felder & Paul W. Weindling (eds), Baltic Eugenics: Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918-1940. On The Boundary of Two Worlds. vol. 35. Amsterdam & New York, NY: Rodopi, 2013, 335pp. (2014)
- Latvieši un Latvija: Akadēmiskie raksti. galv. red. Jānis Stradiņš. Rīga: Latvijas Zinātņu akadēmija, 2013. 4 sēj. il., diagr., kartes, tab. (2014)
- Per Bolin, Between National and Academic Agendas: Ethnic Politics and National Disciplines at the University of Latvia, 1919–1940 (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola 2012). 347 s. (2014)
- Øyvind Strømmen, Den sorte tråden: Europeisk høyreradikalisme fra 1920 til i dag (Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2013). Henrik Arnstad, Älskade fascism: De svartbruna rörelsernas ideologi och historia (Stockholm: Norstedts, 2013). (2014)
- Lettland unter deutscher Besatzung 1941–1944: Der lettische Anteil am Holocaust, Katrin Reichelt (Berlin: Metropol, 2011), 428 pp., paperback, € 24.00. (2013)
- Karojošā piemiņa: 16. marts un 9. maijs (2012)
- Rumsrena extremister (2012)
- Sven Jüngerkes: Deutsche Besatzungsverwaltung in Lettland 1941–1945. Eine Kommunikations- und Kulturgeschichte nationalsozialistischer Organisationen, Konstanz: UVK 2010, 575S. (2011)
- New Documents and Old Interpretations on Baltic Collaboration and Nazi Crimes in Belarus (2010)
- Review of A.R. Diukov, V.V. Simindei et al., "Unichtozhit' kak mozhno bol'she...": Latviiskie kollaboratsionistskie formirovaniia na territorii Belorussii, 1942-1944 gg. Sbornik dokumentov (2010)
- Review of Björn M. Felder, Lettland im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Zwischen sowjetischen und deutschen Besatzern 1940–1946 (2010)
- Writing history politically (2010)
- Forskare måste tänka nytt kring romer (2009)
- Review of Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives (2008)
- Review of Utopias of Nation: Local Mass Killing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1941–42 by Tomislav Dulić (2006)
Books
Chapters
- Why Was There No FEMEN in the Baltic States? (2023)
- Gaming the System (2022)
- The Roots of Radicalism (2017)
- The Baltic States (2017)
- The Far Right in Latvia (2016)
- The Fate of the Romani Minorities in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during the Second World War (2015)
- Війна Бйорна Вестлі (2014)
- It is in their DNA (2014)
- Rekrutierung der Waffen-SS im Reichskommissariat Ostland (2012)
- Estonian and Latvian Refugees in Sweden after World War II (2011)
- Antropologen Gaston Backman och den uppsaliensiska rasbiologins spridning i tid och rum (2009)
Conferences
- The Transnational ‘Gypsy’ as a Threat to Law and Order in Sweden (2013)
- Beyond the Soviet Story: Making the Narratives of Russianness in Latvia More Pluralistic (2013)
- The Fate of the Romani Minorities in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during World War II: Problems and Perspectives for Romani Studies and Comparative Genocide Research (2013)
- Extremism in Latvia: New Perspectives and Recent Trends (2013)
- The Roots of Radicalism: Persistent Problems of Class and Ethnicity in Latvia’s Politics (2013)
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