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Evgeny Efremkin
Contract Lecturer
EducationPhD (History): York (Canada)
Phone(416) 979-5000 x 557046
Spoken Languages
English, Russian, Hebrew, French
Biography
Dr. Evgeny Efremkin is a contract lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and the Department of History at Ryerson University. In addition to a PhD in History, he holds an MA in History and a BA in History and Political Science, all from York University (Canada).
Publications include:
- At the Intersection of Diasporas, Nations, and Modernities: North American Finns in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press. (forthcoming).
- 鈥淎t the Intersection of Modernities: Migrants as Agents of Economic and Cultural Change.鈥 Journal of Contemporary History, 31 March 2015.
- Review of The Search for a Socialist El Dorado: Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and
Canada in the 1930s by Golubev, Alexey, and Irina Takala. Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space 2 (2014): 452-455.
- 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Invisible Nationality Policy: Creating Ethnicity, Managing Population, Imagining a Nation.鈥 Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 24:2 (2013):.
- 鈥淩ecruitment in North America: An Analysis of Emigrants to Soviet Karelia.鈥 In Victims and Survivors of Karelia, ed. Markku Kangaspuro and Samira Saramo. Special Double Issue of the Journal of Finnish Studies 15(2011): 103-126.
- 鈥溞熜笛械褋械谢械薪懈械 褋械胁械褉芯邪屑械褉懈泻邪薪褋泻懈褏 褎懈薪薪芯胁 胁 小芯胁械褌褋泻褍褞 袣邪褉械谢懈褞 胁 1930-1933 谐芯写邪褏: 褋褌邪褌懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻懈泄 邪薪邪谢懈蟹, 孝褉褍写褘 袣邪褉械谢褜褋泻芯谐芯 薪邪褍褔薪芯谐芯 褑械薪褌褉邪 袪袗袧 鈩 6. 2011. 小. 97鈥105
(鈥淓migration and Settlement of North American Finns in Soviet Karelia, 1930-1933: A Statistical Analysis, Proceedings of Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences 6 (2011): 97-105. - 鈥溞夹感逞邪褑懈褟 袣邪薪邪写褋泻懈褏 肖懈薪薪芯胁 胁 小芯胁械褌褋泻褍褞 袣邪褉械谢懈褞 胁芯 胁褉械屑械薪邪 袙械谢懈泻芯泄 袛械锌褉械褋褋懈懈,鈥 校褔械薪褘械 蟹邪锌懈褋泻懈 袩械褌褉芯蟹邪胁芯写褋泻芯谐芯 谐芯褋褍写邪褉褋褌胁械薪薪芯谐芯 校薪懈胁械褉褋懈褌械褌邪. (鈥淥pportunists: Canadian Finns in the Soviet Union and North America during the Great Depression.鈥 Academic Journal of
Petrozavodsk State University 3:95 (October 2008): 42-52. - Review of The King of Karelia: Col P.J. Woods and the British Intervention in North Russia 1918-1919 A History and a
Memoir, by Nick Baron. Journal of Finnish Studies 12 (2008): 32鈥34.
- 鈥 'Karelian Project' or 'Karelian Fever'? Orders from Above, Reaction from Below: Conflicting Interests in Kremlin, Karelia and Canada.鈥 In North American Finns in Soviet Karelia in the 1930s:
[Proceedings of International Research Seminar], ed. Irina Takala and Ilya Solomeshch, 55-83. Petrozavodsk: Petrozavodsk State University Press, 2008. - Review of A Sociological Survey of the Finnish Settlement of New York Mills, Minnesota and its Adjacent Territory, by
Darrel G. Nicholson. Journal of Finnish Studies 10 (2006): 59鈥61.
Dr. Efremkin's interests can be summarized under the following headings:
- Transnational History
- Cold War History
- International Relations
- Decolonization History
- Social & Cultural History
- Migration and Ethnicity
- Canadian Studies
- European History
- World History
At Ryerson, Dr. Efremkin currently teaches POL208: Globalization and World Politics (Department of Politics and Public Administration) and CHST604: Uneasy Peace: The Cold War, 1945-90 (Department of History). He also teaches two History courses at Trent University (Peterborough).