Unbound

Dr Hubertus Jahn lectures in East European History at the University of Cambridge, where he is the Chair of the Committee for Russian and East European History. He has travelled extensively in the Caucasus since his first visit in 1982, is married to a Georgian and has accompanied several alumni trips to Georgia.

His research interests include Russian and East European history, particularly Russian social and cultural history, national identity and nationalism, popular culture, poverty, deviance and crime, history of St Petersburg, Caucasian studies.

Publications

• Armes Russland: Bettler und Notleidende in der russischen Geschichte vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart Schöningh Verlag 2010
• Patriotic Culture in Russia during World War I Cornell University Press 1995, paperback 1998
• Co-editor (with James von Geldern) Birches, Bolsheviks, and Balalaikas: Popular Culture in Russian History Special Issue of Journal of Popular Culture, 1998
• 'The Bronze Viceroy: Mikhail Vorontsov’s Statue and Russian Imperial Representation in the South Caucasus in the Mid-19th Century' (Pre-published with kind permission of the editor of "Russian History")