Balezin Alexander Sc. / Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Biography:

Professor, Doctor of Science

Chief research fellow

Center for African Studies in the Department of Regional Studies,

Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

e-mail: alex.balezin@yandex.ru

Education

1970-1975 - Oriental College of Moscow Lomonossow University, Department of African History and the Swahili language.

Specialist’s degree in history in 1975 with a dissertation on Ugandan national historiography.
1975-1978 - Institute of World History of the then USSR Academy of Sciences, post-graduate student.
1980 - Ph.D. with the dissertation on transformation of traditional institutions in Uganda under colonialism.
1994 - second doctoral (Dr. of Science) degree with the dissertation on the history of German settlers’ community in SWA/Namibia since 1862 to 1990.

Positions

1980 – present day : junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher, leading researcher, main researcher - Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1990-2012 : part-time associate professor, professor - Oriental College of Moscow Lomonossow University
2010 – present day: part-time professor, State University of Humanities at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Main Publications

African Rulers and Chiefs in Uganda . Evolution of Traditional Rulers under Colonialism). 1862-1962. Moscow, 1986, 276 p.- in Russian.
Civilizers in the country of savages? Formation and Evolution of German Settlers’ Community in SWA/Namibia). 1814-1990. Moscow, 1996, 282 p. - in Russian
Archival Sources in Swahili on Modern and Contemporary history of Africa in German Archives. Moscow, 2002, 69 p. – in Russian and Swahili.
Through Africa in search of Russia. Traveler’s notes of a Historian. Moscow, 2004 and 2012, 146 p. - in Russian
Modern and contemporary History of Tropical and Southern Africa . Moscow, 2008, 272 p. - in Russian
Black Africa and Europe: some aspects of encounter of cultures under colonial rule. Moscow, 2015, 220 p. - in Russian
Black Africa: past and Present. Moscow, 2016, 688 p. Editor-in-chief and author of 12 paragraphs. - in Russian
Modern and Contemporary History of Namibia. Together with A.V.Pritvorov and S.A.Slipchenko. Moscow, 1993, 255 p. - in Russian.
At the Great African Lakes. Monarchs and Presidents of Uganda. Moscow, 1989, 208 p. - in Russian.(English translation prepared for print in Africa)

About 200 articles on African history, Soviet and Russian historiography of Africa and Soviet-African relations.

Balezin Alexander Sc.

Birth date:

18 December 1952