Roger Markwick
Roger Markwick is Professor of Modern European History, the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the co-author of Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (Palgrave-McMillan, 2012), which was shortlisted for the 2013 NSW Premier’s History Awards. His latest research is on Soviet women on the home front during the Second World War.
All essays by Roger Markwick
Svetlana Aleksievich – chronicler of the Soviet Union’s ‘unknown face’
‘What Svetlana Aleksievich has achieved over nearly four decades and in five books is to unveil the hidden lives and recollections of ordinary Soviet and post-Soviet people by interviewing thousands of them, inter alia: Red Army women veterans; Afghan war veterans; veterans of the Chernobyl’ nuclear disaster; and most recently, post-Soviet memories of a deceased world.’ Historian Roger Markwick on the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature.