Professor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London
Jeremy Hicks is a historian of Russian culture and film at QMUL. His research interests are in the history of documentary film in Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has also published on Soviet film during World War Two, representations of the Holocaust in Russian and Soviet film, the documentary film pioneer, Dziga Vertov and connections between Soviet film and humanitarian film
He received a PhD from SSEES-UCL in 2000, and has been teaching at Queen Mary since 1998.
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Mar 13, 2024 10:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
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