Dr Natalya Chernyshova 

Lecturer in Modern History 

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 

Natalya.Chernyshova@winchester.ac.uk  

01962 827311  

University of Winchester
Sparkford Road
Winchester SO22 4NR

Biography

Natalya has a BA in History and Journalism from the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) and a BA in Modern Foreign Languages (with Distinction) from the Minsk State Linguistic University. She received her MA (with Merit) in European Studies and her PhD in History from King's College, University of London. Her doctoral thesis is titled Shopping with Brezhnev: Soviet urban consumer culture, 1964-1985.

Natalya’s professional experience includes working as Belarus Media Project Coordinator and editor of the Belarus Reporting Service at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London (2002-2003) and as Russian Language Tutor at the Washington and Lee University, USA (1999-2000).  At the University of Winchester, Natalya teaches modules on Russian and Soviet history and on 20th-century European history.

Publications

Journal articles

'Philistines on the Big Screen: consumerism in Soviet cinema of the Brezhnev era'. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Vol. 5, No 2 (December 2011), pp 227-54

'Consuming technology in a closed society: household appliances in Soviet urban homes of the Brezhnev era', Ab Imperio, Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post Soviet Space, Issue 2 (July 2011), pp 188-220.

Book reviews

Melanie Ilic and Jeremy Smith (eds), Soviet State and Society under Nikita Khrushchev, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 46, No 4 (October 2011), pp 950-52

In preparation

Monograph on Soviet consumer culture in the Brezhnev era, 1964-1985 (under contract with Routledge in BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies).

Research Interests

  • Soviet social and cultural history, including Soviet society of the Brezhnev era
  • The history of consumption
  • Russian cinema
  • Eastern Europe in the twentieth century

Research student supervision

Director of Studies for Simon Young (full-time, January 2012), The 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow

Third supervisor for Tom French (full-time: February 2006-11), Rearmament, the Cold War and the history of the National Police Reserve 1948-1952: 'de facto army' or supplementary police force? Awarded September 2011

To view Natalya's areas of supervision, please visit the Research Supervisors page.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

  • Postan Fellowship, Institute for Historical Research (London) and Economic History Society, 2006/07
  • School of Humanities Teaching Fellowship, King’s College London, 2006/07
    Economic History Society Travel Grant for fieldwork in Russian Archives (PhD research), 2005
  • The BM Swiadowska Award for Study of East European History, Department of History, King’s College London, 2005 and 2006
  • Mary Scharlieb Studentship in Sociology, Law and Economics, University of London Postgraduate Trust, 2004–2006
  • Royal Historical Society Bursary, 2003–2006
  • Overseas Research Students (ORS) Award, 2003–2006