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William Prigge

William Prigge

Title

Professor of History

Office Building

Lincoln Hall

Office

219

Mailing Address

Lincoln Hall 219
School of American & Global Studies-Box 2212
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

Ph.D. (2006), Marquette University

Academic Interests

Modern World Civilization, Nazi and Soviet Europe, Imperialism

Grants

J. William Fulbright Scholarship (2004-5) - Riga, Latvia
J. William Fulbright Scholarship (2021) - Chisinau, Moldova

Professional Memberships

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies

Creative Activities

Peer-Reviewed Publications:


Books:

Prigge, William D. The Bearslayers: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists. New York: Peter Lang. (2015)


Journal Articles:

Prigge, William D & Tarita, Marius. "Moldavia, the Latvian Purges and Khrushchev's Young Turks, 1958-62." Europe-Asia Studies. (forthcoming).

Prigge, William D. “Power, Popular Opinion and the Latvian National Communists.” Journal of Baltic Studies. (Fall 2014): 305-319.

Prigge, William D. “The 1959 Latvian Purges: A Revisionist Study.” Journal of Baltic Studies. (Fall 2004): 211-230.


Book Chapters:

Prigge, William D. 2011. Sovietization, Russification and Nationalism in Post-War Latvia. In The Baltic States under Stalinist Rule. Ed. Olaf Mertelsmann. Köln: Böhlau Köln.

Prigge, William D. 2010. The Strange Death of Latvian National Communism. In From Recognition to Restoration: Latvia’s History as a Nation-State. Eds. David J. Smith, David J. Galbreath and Geoffrey Swain. Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi.


Other Publications:

Prigge, William D. “The purge of the members of the CC of Communist Party of Moldavia in 1958-1963” Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a Moldovei. Ediţa 31, 2021.

“Latvijas nacionalo komunistu izskirosais bridis.” Diena. June 12, 2004.

“Berija Latvija—draugs vai ienaidnieks“” Diena. October 15, 2005.


Recent Conferences or Symposia

“Literacy, Higher Education, Recruitment, and Promotion in Soviet Moldavia” ASEEES Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Dec 2023

“Origins of Two Moldavian-Moldovan National Identities: The View From Tiraspol and Chisinau” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Gainesville, FL, March 2023.

“Conference of Political Historians of the Post-War Soviet Union” Invited Workshop, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June, 2022.

"Conferinţa ştiinţifică internaţională a Muzeului Naţional de Istorie a Moldovei. "
Chisinau, Moldova, October 2021

“Friends, Neighbours and Competitors with the Soviet ‘Friendship of Nations’” Invited Workshop, Upsala University, Sweden, October 2019.

“A Comparative Examination of the Latvian, Ukrainian and Moldovan Archives as it relates to the events of 1953 and 1959” ASEEES Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, November 2017.

“Industrialization or Russification: Demographic Changes in Post-War Latvia” ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., November 2016.

“Latvian Cultural Wars” ASEEES Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA., November 2015.

“Populism and the Latvian National Communists” The Twenty-First Annual Conference on Baltic Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, April 2010.

Invited Speaker on Latvian National Communists at the Symposium Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of Latvian Independence, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, November 2008.

“Sovietization, Russification and National Communists in Post-War Latvia” Invited Workshop on the Baltic States under Stalinist Rule, University of Tartu, Estonia, October 2008.

“Unholy Alliance: Moscow, the Military and Latvian National Communists.” The Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 2008.

“The Education of Eduards Berklavs.” The Twentieth Annual Conference on Baltic Studies, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., June 2006.

“The 1959 Latvian Purges.” The Nineteenth Annual Conference on Baltic Studies, University of Toronto, Ont., June 2004.

Area(s) of Research

Dr. Prigge's research interest relates to the Soviet Union after the Second World War, particularly the experience within its republics and the rise of the national communists.

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