Alexander Hill

Professor Alexander Hill has taught history at the University of Calgary since 2004. He has PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge and specializes in Soviet military and political history, with a particular emphasis on the period 1928-1945 and on Soviet Cold War involvement in Africa. He also has a Diploma in Russian from the University of Cambridge and has spent a significant period of time living and researching in Russia. He has written a number of books on the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, including The Red Army and the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2016). His most recent book, The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History has just been published by Pen and Sword (2021). He has recently been heavily engaged in work on understanding the context for and course of Russia's 'special operation' in Ukraine, including editing and contributing to a special issue of the University of Calgary's Journal of Military and Strategic Studies on the matter, that can be found here - https://jmss.org/.