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Evgeny Efremkin

Contract Lecturer
EducationPhD (History): York (Canada)
Phone(416) 979-5000 x 557046

Spoken Languages

English, Russian, Hebrew, French

Biography

Dr. Evgeny Efremkin is a contract lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and the Department of History at Ryerson University.  In addition to a PhD in History, he holds an MA in History and a BA in History and Political Science, all from York University (Canada).

Publications include:

  • At the Intersection of Diasporas, Nations, and Modernities: North American Finns in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press. (forthcoming).
  • At the Intersection of Modernities: Migrants as Agents of Economic and Cultural Change. Journal of Contemporary History, 31 March 2015.
  • Review of The Search for a Socialist El Dorado: Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and
    Canada in the 1930s
     by Golubev, Alexey, and Irina Takala. Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space 2 (2014): 452-455.  
  • Canadas Invisible Nationality Policy: Creating Ethnicity, Managing Population, Imagining a Nation. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 24:2 (2013):.
  • Recruitment in North America: An Analysis of Emigrants to Soviet Karelia. In Victims and Survivors of Karelia, ed. Markku Kangaspuro and Samira Saramo. Special Double Issue of the Journal of Finnish Studies 15(2011): 103-126.
  • 迮迮迮郅迮郇邽迮 迮赲迮郋訄邾迮邽郕訄郇郕邽 邽郇郇郋赲 赲 苤郋赲迮郕 訄迮郅邽 赲 1930-1933 迣郋迡訄: 訄邽邽迮郕邽邿 訄郇訄郅邽郱, 苠迡 訄迮郅郕郋迣郋 郇訄郇郋迣郋 迮郇訄 6. 2011. 苤. 97105
    (Emigration and Settlement of North American Finns in Soviet Karelia, 1930-1933: A Statistical Analysis, Proceedings of Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences 6 (2011): 97-105.
  • 衪邾邽迣訄邽 訄郇訄迡郕邽 苳邽郇郇郋赲 赲 苤郋赲迮郕 訄迮郅邽 赲郋 赲迮邾迮郇訄 迮郅邽郕郋邿 迮郈迮邽邽, 苺迮郇迮 郱訄郈邽郕邽 迮郋郱訄赲郋迡郕郋迣郋 迣郋迡訄赲迮郇郇郋迣郋 苺郇邽赲迮邽迮訄. (Opportunists: Canadian Finns in the Soviet Union and North America during the Great Depression. Academic Journal of
    Petrozavodsk State University 
    3:95 (October 2008): 42-52.
  • Review of The King of Karelia: Col P.J. Woods and the British Intervention in North Russia 1918-1919 A History and a
    Memoir
    , by Nick Baron. Journal of Finnish Studies 12 (2008): 3234.  
  • 'Karelian Project' or 'Karelian Fever'? Orders from Above, Reaction from Below: Conflicting Interests in Kremlin, Karelia and Canada. In North American Finns in Soviet Karelia in the 1930s:
    [Proceedings of International Research Seminar], ed. Irina Takala and Ilya Solomeshch, 55-83.  Petrozavodsk: Petrozavodsk State University Press, 2008.
  • Review of A Sociological Survey of the Finnish Settlement of New York Mills, Minnesota and its Adjacent Territory, by
    Darrel G. Nicholson. Journal of Finnish Studies 10 (2006): 5961.

Dr. Efremkin's interests can be summarized under the following headings:

  • Transnational History
  • Cold War History
  • International Relations
  • Decolonization History
  • Social & Cultural History
  • Migration and Ethnicity
  • Canadian Studies
  • European History
  • World History

At Ryerson, Dr. Efremkin currently teaches POL208: Globalization and World Politics (Department of Politics and Public Administration) and CHST604: Uneasy Peace: The Cold War, 1945-90 (Department of History).  He also teaches two History courses at Trent University (Peterborough).