05.Department of Modern and Contemporary History

Head of the Department:

Dr Velikhan Mirzekhanov, DPhil, Chief Research Fellow

Contacts:

+7 (495)954-49-31

Major research areas:

• History of Early Modern and Modern Europe.
• Evolution of European states in the 18th-19th centuries.
• Problems of development of continental and colonial empires, formation of nation states.
• Socio-political transformations in Europe in the 19th-early 20th centuries. Russia and Europe in the 18th-20th centuries: economic, political, diplomatic, and cultural interaction.