Dr. Svetlana A. Chervonnaya (Russia)
Moscow: 8 Bolshoy Kazenny by-street, ap. 12 Moscow 105064, Russia
Tel. +7-495-916-3706 +7-985-772 0933 (cell)
e-mail: chervonnaya.s@gmail.com
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education: Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences, US History), 1977, Institute of USA and Canada Studies, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR; Diploma (History), 1971, Department of History, the Moscow State University (MGU)
Academic Rank: Senior Research Fellow (1985)
Professional Experience:
June 2010 – Historian, writer, translator; TV documentary writer and producer
2005-May, 2010 Researcher and writer, The Nation Institute (116 E 16th Street, NYC, NY) Cold War Project, incl. from 2008 to May 2010—launching and running a documentary website www.documentstalk.com
1971-2001 Institute of US and Canada Studies, Russian/Soviet Academy of Sciences (Research Intern, Junior Fellow, Senior Fellow, Section Head, Department Head, Leading Research Fellow)
Academic field: U.S. Modern & Contemporary History: Cold War History, U.S. Domestic Policy, Race and Ethnicity, Civil Rights, Human Rights; Soviet-American espionage history
Publications: Author, co-author, editor-in-chief and editor of books (1974-2000) on US post-war history and politics (most recent U.S. Political System: Modern Dimensions,“Nauka”: Moscow, 2000 – editor-in-chief and author of two chapters); pamphlets and articles totaling more than 150 publishing sheets. (Select non-updated academic publications list available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Svetlana_ Chervonnaya) Feature articles in Russian mass media, 1972 – 2001, incl. front-page in major dailies
Most recent articles and book chapter:
Left Behind: Boris E. Skvirsky and the Chita Delegation at the Washington Conference, 1921-22” (co-authored with Donald Evans, USA), Intelligence and National Security (Taylor & Francis Group journal), 2014, No 1 (April 2013 on-line edition)
“10 Minutes that shook the world”, Diletant (Moscow), No. 7, July 2012
“The Secrets of Venona: The Case of Klaus Fuchs. An Attempt at Historical Investigation,” in: Ethik in der Wissenschaft – Die Verantwortung der Wissenschaftler. Zum Gedenken an den Atomwissenschaftler Klaus Fuchs (29.12.1911–28.1.1988). Herausgegeben von Günter Flach & Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Abhandlungen der Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, 2008
International Fellowships/ grants
2016-17 Extension of the Kone Foundation grant below
2015, Kone Foundation (Finland) project grant, “Documentation on the history of Finland at the Archive of the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery,
Engineering and Signal Forces at St. Petersburg – identification, description and cataloguing” (project editor, writer, translator and researcher as part of the project 3-member team)
2014, Kone Foundation personal grant extension, same project as below
2013, Personal grant, Kone Foundation (Finland), international project,
Jan.-June More than a ‘Crimean War’: Primary Source Evidence and Finland’s Wartime Experiences, 1854-1856
2012-2013 Archival research and documentation on the Straight – Elmhirst family (Dorothy Payne Whitney Elmhirst – Leonard Knight Elmhirst) and it circle (Russian, UK and US records research and analysis), on a private grant from Mr. William Elmhirst (UK, now deceased)
2010 March-April Short-term Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
2005 – 2010 The Nation Institute’s (116 E 16th Street, NY, NY) annually renewable Cold War Project (“Alger Hiss” Documentation & Publication Project), research and later web site grant
1999 – 2000 Personal translation grant from The Open Society Institute/The SorosFoundation, Russia, for translation of Lynn Nicholas’ prize winning book, The Rape of Europe: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Knopf, 1994)
1991-1992 Participant, International Human Rights Group (“Winds of Change”), The Institute of Bill of Rights Law, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
1991 IREX Scholar (American Labor-Management Experience project)
1990 Participant, International Visitors Program of the USIA (Legal Experts Program of the U.S. Department of State and the USIA Voluntary Visitors Program/The Presidential Initiative /”Rule of Law” for Russia.)
Academic Consultancy:
August 2017 Consultant (incl. Russian archival research and translation), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), New York, book project, new political biography of Henry A. Wallace by Benn Steil
March 2015 Consultant (incl. Russian archival research), the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, book project, A World Divided: The Marshall Plan and the Dawn of the Cold War, by Benn Stein
1993 – 2012 Reviewer, The Fulbright Program for the Russian Federation
1996 – 2001 Selection Panel Participant, The Fulbright Program for the Russia Federation (incl. Final Selection Panel member)
1998 – 1999 Chairperson, Expert Panel, “Books for Civil Society” of the Translation Project, The Open Society Institute/ Soros Foundation, Russia
1988 – 1991 Counsel, the Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
Book research
(Select more recent completed projects)
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner, Little Brown and Company, 2021 (August 2021) https://www.worldcat.org/title/all-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-days-the-true-story-of-the-american-woman-at-the-heart-of-the-german-resistance-to-hitler/oclc/1242984032&referer=brief_results
Cilka’s Journey, by Heather Morris, St. Marten’s Press, Oct. 1, 2019
(https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250265708)
THE MARSHALL PLAN. Dawn of the Cold War, by Benn Steil, Simon and Schuster, 2018 (http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Marshall-Plan/Benn-Steil/9781501102370)
Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership, by Susan Butler, Knopf, 2015 (http://knopfdoubleday.com/2015/02/25/media-center-roosevelt-and-stalin-by-susan-butler/)
The Crimean War in Imperial Context, 1854-1856, by Andrew Rath,Palgrave, 2015 (http://www.palgrave.com/in/book/9781137544513)
THE SUMMIT: The Biggest Battle of the Second World War – Fought Behind Closed Doors, by Ed Conway, LITTLE, BROWN, 2014
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Summit-Biggest-Battle-Second/dp/ 1408704927)
CHASING GOLD. The Incredible Story behind the Nazi Search for Europe’s Bullion, by George M. Taber, Pegasus Books LLC, 2014 (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/george-m-taber/chasing-gold/)
Facing Fearful Odds. My Father’s Story of Captivity, Escape & Resistance 1940-45, by John Jay, Pen & Sword Military (an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., Barnsley, South Yorkshire), 2014
One Minute to Midnight, by Michael Dobbs, Knopf, 2008 http://www.michaeldobbsbooks.com/one-minute-to-midnight.html
Documentary Film Writer, Researcher and Producer
(Select TV documentary projects)
2016- Archival documentary, stock footage research and interviewee, The People
2018 from Nowhere (feature documentary film about the daughter of a Soviet 1978
defector), Mistrus Media, Riga, Latvia, 2018
(http://www.mistrusmedia.lv/productions)
2015 – Stock footage researcher, consultant, My Dear Children (a documentary story
2017 of Jewish faith, family, and a tragedy that reverberated for generations), by
LeeAnn Dance and Cliff Hackel, Co-Producers and Co-Directors.
(http://www.mydearchildrendoc.com/the-film/)
2014- Consultant and researcher, Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall
2015 of Communism, produced by The Knights of Columbus (released in December
2015) http://www.kofc.org/en/news/releases/jp2-fall-communism.html
2010 Author of the idea and co-writer, The Ambassadors of Stormy Times (“Posly
surovoj pory”), “Aquila TV” for “TVRC St. Petersburg”
2005 Writer and Director, Russia – America, 3 series of 11-part documentary
The Duel of Intelligence Services (Duel’ razvedok), Studio 2V for
RGTRK (Channel RUSSIA). [Stories of Russian and American special
services’ confrontation, spanning most part of the 20th century (1904-2001)]
http://russia.tv/video/show/brand_id/10216/episode_id/185136/video_id/185136/
2004 Writer and Director, The Fateful Decision (Rokovoe reshenie), Studio 2V for
RGTRK (Channel RUSSIA.) An investigative story of life and defection of
Arkady Shevchenko, the Under-Secretary of the UN once described as “the
defector of the century” http://russia.tv/brand/show/brand_id/41006/
2003 Russian Field Producer, Soviet UFO Secrets revealed, Bill Brummel
Productions for A&E History Channel
2002 Russian Field Producer, Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies, NOVA, WGBH and
Powderhouse Productions http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/
2002 Co-writer, POW Generals (Plen generalov), produced by Dialog Studio
(Moscow) for VGTRK KULTURA Channel, Russia
2001 Consulting Producer, The Moscow Oscar, VGTRK Channel RUSSIA
2001 Russian Production Coordinator, History Undercover: Psychic Espionage,
INDIGOFILMS for A&E History Channel
2000 Russian Field Director, Hugo Junkers Story, produced by VIDICOM TV
(Germany)
1999 Russian Production Coordinator and researcher, Mystery of the U2,
INDIGOFILMS for A&E History Channel
1996-97 Investigative journalist and Associate Producer, The Rosenberg File/Case
Closed, Discovery Channel, 1997 (produced by Global American Television
Inc.)
1992 Consulting researcher, Joel Barr Story, ABC NIGHTLINE.
Editing
American Political System: Current Dimensions. Moscow: Nauka, 2000 (editor-in-chief)
1998 – 2002 consulting editor, editor, Readers Digest Inc., Russia
1998 – 2000 editor & reviewer, “Books for Civil Society”, Translation Project: The
Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation, Russia
1987 The Constitution and the Rights of American Citizens, 1787 – 1987 (co-
editor), Moscow: Mysl’, 1987
1974 – 1990s editor and reviewer for Moscow publishing houses (particularly
“Progress”, “Mysl’”) and history journals
1974 compiled and edited, America’s Other Youth, Moscow: Progress
Publishers, 1974
Translation
2015-2016 THE EITINGONS. A Twentieth-Century Story, by Mary-Kay Wilmers,
London: Faber and Faber (2009) – Moscow: Russkii put’ (2016)
2012 – 2014 translator (Russian to English) of Russian archival documentation,
international project, More than a ‘Crimean War’: Primary Source
Evidence and Finland’s Wartime Experiences, 1854-1856
2000 THE RAPE OF EUROPE: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third
Reich and the Second World War, by Lynn Nicholas (New York: Knopf,
1994) – Moscow: Logos, 2001
1998-2002 translator for Readers Digest, Inc. Russia, incl. participant translator of
Family Encyclopedia of World History, Reader’s Digest Association Ltd.,
1996 (Moscow, Readers Digest, 2001)
1991-1992 Business Through the Eyes of Faith, by Richard C. Chewning, John W.
Eby and Shirley J. Roels, Harper & Row Publishers, San Francisco –
Moscow: The Center for Human Values (Tsentr obschechelovecheskikh
tsennostei), 1993
1983 Whirlwind before the Storm: Origins and Development of the Uprising in
Soweto and the Rest of South Africa, from June to December 1976, by
Alan Brooks and Jeremy Brickhill, London: International Defense and Aid
Fund for Southern Africa, 1980 – Moscow: Progress, 1985 (co-translator)
1974 – 1989 Occasional translations for Moscow publishing houses
Select professional international conferences
(participant/coordinator/mediator)
Commentator, panel, “Military intelligence: its role and significance in the war years”, Hungary and the USSR in the World War II: New Aspects and Interpretations – international conference organized by the Hungarian Cultural and Scholarly Institute in Moscow, November 24-25, 2011
Featured speaker, the New York University, Center for the United States and the Cold War Inaugural Conference, Alger Hiss and History, April 5, 2007
Mediator, “WE-THE OTHERS” within the Context of American Cultural and Historical Experience” – The VII International Conference, Russian Association of USA Studies, Moscow, February 2001
Mediator, “Scholars and Social Problems Panel” – The First All-Russian Conference of
US Government Research Exchange Programs Alumnae, May, 1996
Russian Coordinator, “The Spoils of War” International Symposium, presented by the Bard Graduate School of Decorative Arts, New York, January 1995
Featured Speaker, The Winds of Change International Symposium – The Bill of Rights Law Institute, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, October 1992
Professional Membership:
1997 – 2005 Board Member, Russian Association of USA Studies
Select Publications List
Select Books, Book Parts and Chapters:
“The Secrets of Venona: The Case of Klaus Fuchs. An Attempt at Historical Investigation,” in: Ethik in der Wissenschaft – Die Verantwortung der Wissenschaftler. Zum Gedenken an den Atomwissenschaftler Klaus Fuchs (29.12.1911–28.1.1988). Herausgegeben von Günter Flach & Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Abhandlungen der Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, 2008
American Political System: Current Dimensions. Moscow: Nauka [Science], 2000 (editor-in-chief and author of two chapters, “The Presidential Impeachment and the Paradigm of Power” (co-authored with Margarita Petrosyan for the legal analysis) and “The Ethnic Factor in the Political System”)
“American Mosaic, or Can there be ‘Unum’ in ‘Pluribus?’ in America Coming into the Third Millennium, Moscow: Nauka, 2000
The Resolution of Social Conflicts: the American Experience. Moscow: USA & Canada Institute publication, 1998 (co-author.)
“The Racial Problem,” “The Movement for Racial Justice,” “The Movement in Defense of Civil Rights and Liberties,” in The United States of America: Encyclopedic Reference Book,Moscow: Politizdat [Political Publishers], 1988
The Constitution and the Rights of American Citizens, 1787 – 1987 (co-editor and co-author. Moscow: ‘Mysl’ [Thinking], 1987
The Black Americans, in the series, “Social Science Today”, Moscow, 1987 (foreign language edition)
Race and Ethnicity in the Social and Political Life of the USA, Moscow: Nauka, 1985 (co-authored with Dr. Igor Geevsky, who wrote Introduction and Conclusion)
Under the Code Name and Without (documentary non-fiction, co-author: the first four chapters, incl. on the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss trials and Guatemala 1954 coup), Moscow: Agency Press “Novosti,” 1985
“Domestic factors of American Policy in the Third World”, in The USA and Developing Countries in 1970s, Moscow: Nauka, 1981
“The Black American Movement,” “The Chicano Movement”, in The Mass Movements of Social Protest in the USA, Moscow: Nauka, 1978
“American Students in the Struggle for Civil Rights and Racial Justice,” in The USA: Students and Politics, Moscow: Nauka, 1974
Select Articles:
“Documentation of the two Visits of Marguerite Harrison to Soviet Russia in the Archives of Moscow,” in Historical Development of the Border Region, International Scientific and Practical Conference, Chita, October 26, 2018, Part 2, pp. 158-162
“Left Behind: Boris E. Skvirsky and the Chita Delegation at the Washington Conference, 1921-22” (co-authored with Donald Evans, USA), Intelligence and National Security (Taylor & Francis Group journal), 2014, No 1 (April 2013 on-line edition)
“10 Minutes that shook the world”, Diletant (Moscow), No. 7, July 2012
“The Mystery of “Ales,” coauthored with Kai Bird, in The American Scholar, June 2007
Rudolph Abel: The Legend of the Cold War, in NVO – Nezavisimoe voennoe obozrenie (The Independent Military Review), July 11, 2003 (co-authored with Anatoly Sudoplatov)
“On the Threshold of the Progressive Era”, in SShA: Politika, Economika, Kultura (The USA: Politics, Economics, Culture), February, 2001 (co-authored with Vladimir Vassiliev)
Series of front-page articles on US Elections 2000 and Transition in Nezavisimaja Gazeta (Independent Newspaper) and its bi-weekly Diplomaticheskii Vestnik (Diplomatic Courier), March 2000 – April 2001 (some of the articles co-authored with Vladimir Vassiliev)
“America through the Mirror of Impeachment” (co-authored with Margarita Petrosyan for the legal analysis), in The USA: Politics, Economics, Culture, November 1999
“We Are Patient: Moscow Can Shed Light on the Circumstances in the Rosenberg Case,” Interview with Robert Meropol, in Nezavisimaja Gazeta (NG – Independent Newspaper), July 11, 1998
Can there be “Unum” in “Pluribus”? The Problems of American Identity Revisited, in
USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology (USA: EPI), 1997, N 10
“The Secrets of Arlington Hall: The Rosenberg Case through the Eyes of VENONA,” in USA: EPI, 1997, N 8
“Where the Rosenbergs Guilty as Charged? – The Soviet Ex-Agent Sheds a New Light on the Rosenberg Case,” in The New Times, 1997, March 23, 1997
“Protection of Minority Rights in the USA,” in USA: EPI, 1995, N 7
“New Aspects of Labor-Management Regulation in the USA,” in USA: EPI, 1995, N 2
“American Labor in the Face of Change,” in USA: EPI, 1993, N 9
“The Critical Choices of Russia’s Democracy,” in William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol.1, issue 2, Fall 1992 (Williamsburg, VA)
“The Jury in the American Court” (co-authored with Vassili Vlasikhin), in The Soviet Justice, 1986, N 21
“The Deadlocks of Minority Politics,” in USA: EPI, 1982, N 8
“Miami Events: the Causes and the Aftershocks,” in USA: EPI, 1980, N 8
“Black Congressmen and Africa,” in USA: EPI, 1978, N 12
“The U.S. Supreme Court and the Civil Rights,” in USA: EPI, 1978, N 4
“The Black American Movement in the 1970s,” in Raci i Narody, 1978 (The Races and the Peoples Yearbook, 1978)
“The Chicano Workers Effort at Labor Organizing,” in Rabochij klas i sovremennyi mir (The Labor and the Modern World journal, 1976, N 5)
“The Life and Death of Malcolm X,” in Novaia i Noveishaya Istoriia (The Modern and Contemporary History journal), 1972, N 5
Books Translated:
THE EITINGONS. A Twentieth-Century Story, Faber and Faber (2009) – Moscow: Russkii Poot’ (The Russian Way) (November 2016)
THE RAPE OF EUROPE: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War, by Lynn Nickolas (Knopf, 1994) – Moscow: Logos, 2001
Business Through the Eyes of Faith, by Richard C. Chewning, John W. Eby and Shirley J. Roels, Harper & Row Publishers, San Francisco; Moscow: Tsentr obschechelovecheskikh tsennostei (The Center for Human Values), 1993
Whirlwind Before the Storm: Origins and Development of the Uprising in Soweto and the Rest of South Africa, from June to December 1976, byAlan Brooks and Jeremy Brickhill, London: International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 1980; Moscow: Progress, 1985 (co-translator with Mikhail Zagot)
Book Reviews:
1971 – 1992 Regular reviewing of American and Russian books in the U.S. studies field for: SShA: EPI (USA: EPI), Voprosy istorii (The Problems of History), Novye knigi rubezhom (The New Books Abroad)
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