George Gilbert

George Gilbert is an Associate Professor (senior lecturer) specialising in modern Russian history at the University of Southampton, UK. His first monograph, The Radical Right in Late Imperial Russia: Dreams of a True Fatherland (Routledge, 2016) was nominated for the Alec Nove Prize in Russian and East European Studies. He edited Reading Russian Sources (2020), part of Routledge’s Guides to Historical Sources series. The book won Best Historical Materials for 2020 and 2021 from the American Library Association. His work has appeared in leading journals including Kritika, The Slavonic and East European Review, and The Russian Review. He is a member of the British Association of Slavonic and East European studies, currently acting as chair of the Research and Development Committee since 2025, having previously held the role of Secretary (2019-22), and been on the R&D committee since 2022. He is also an active member of the Study Group of the Russian Revolution, and, at Southampton, co-director for the Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CEEES), and affiliated to the Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across the ages.