David Roger Marples

Dr. Marples is author of seventeen single-authored books and five edited books on topics ranging from 20th Century Russia, Stalinism, contemporary Belarus, contemporary Ukraine, and the Chernobyl disaster. His recent books include Stalin: His Life and Times (2022), The War in Ukraine's Donbas (edited, 2022), Understanding Ukraine and Belarus (Bristol: E-International Relations, 2020), ‘Our Glorious Past: Lukashenka’s Belarus and the Great Patriotic War (Stuttgart, Germany: Ibidem Verlag, 2014), Russia in the 20th Century: The Quest for Stability (London: Routledge, 2011), Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2008) and The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991 (London: Longman, 2004). In March 2022, he was appointed Research Fellow at the Contemporary Ukraine Program, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.