Staff profile

Sarah Davies is a cultural historian of the Soviet Union and the Cold War. Her first book, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia (CUP, 1997) was awarded the Alec Nove prize. She received AHRC funding for a project on Stalin’s personal archive, which has resulted in a monograph, Stalin's World, jointly-authored with James Harris (Leeds). With Harris, she co-edited Stalin: A New History (CUP, 2003). Her current project is a study of Soviet and British cultural diplomacy during the Cold War.

• Political Communication
• Stalin and Stalinism
• The Cultural Cold War
• The Soviet Union

Authored book

• Davies, S., & Harris, J. (2014). Stalin's World: Dictating the Soviet Order. Yale University Press
• Davies, S. (2011). Mnenie naroda stalinskoj Rossii: terror, propaganda i inakomyslie. 1934-1941. Rosspen
• Davies, S. (1997). Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia. Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941. Cambridge University Press

Chapter in book

• Davies, S. (2015). The Soviet Union Encounters Anglia: Britain's Russian Magazine as a Medium for Cross-Border Communication. In S. Mikkonen, & P. Koivunen (Eds.), Beyond the divide : entangled histories of Cold War Europe (218-234). Berghahn Books
• Davies, S. (2005). Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture 1932-1936. In S. Davies, & J. Harris (Eds.), Stalin : a new history (202-225). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511614897.014
• Davies, S., & Harris, J. (2005). Joseph Stalin: power and ideas. In S. Davies, & J. Harris (Eds.), Stalin : a new history (1-17). Cambridge University Press
• Davies, S. (2004). Soviet Cinema in the Early Cold War: Pudovkin's Admiral Nakhimov in Context. In P. Major, & R. Mitter (Eds.), Across the Blocs (49-70). Frank Cass
• Davies, S. (2004). Stalin and the making of the leader cult in the 1930s. In B. Apor, J. Behrends, P. Jones, & E. Rees (Eds.), The leader cult in communist dictatorships : Stalin and the Eastern Bloc (29-46). Palgrave Macmillan
• Davies, S. (2003). Idéologie, propagande et mobilisation dans le système soviétique des années 1930. In S. Courtois (Ed.), Une si longue nuit : l'apogee des regimes totalitaires en Europe 1935-1953 (96-112). Editions du Rocher
• Davies, S. (2000). Soviet Perceptions of the Allies during the Great Patriotic War. In C. Brennan, & M. Frame (Eds.), Russia and the Wider World in Historical Perspective (168-189). Basingstoke: Macmillan
• Davies, S. (1999). "Us against them": social identity in Soviet Russia, 1934-1941. In S. Fitzpatrick (Ed.), Stalinism: New Directions (47-70). Routledge
• Davies, S. (1998). The Leader Cult: Propaganda and its Recption in Stalin's Russia. In J. Channon (Ed.), Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR (115-138). Basingstoke: Macmillan

Edited book

• Davies, S., & Harris, J. (Eds.). (2005). Stalin: A New History. Cambridge University Press

Journal Article

• Davies, S. (2018). From Iron Curtain to velvet curtain? Peter Brook’s Hamlet and the origins of British-Soviet cultural relations during the Cold War. Contemporary European History, 27(4), 601-626. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777318000395
• Davies, S. (2013). The Soft Power of Anglia: British Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the USSR. Contemporary British History, 27(3), 297-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2013.794695
• Davies, S. (2003). Soviet cinema in the early cold war: Pudovkin’s Admiral Nakhimov in context. Cold War History, 4(1), 49-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682740312331391734
• Davies, S. (1998). The crime of "anti-Soviet agitation" in the Soviet Union in the 1930's. Cahiers du monde russe, 39(1-2), 149-168. https://doi.org/10.3406/cmr.1998.2517
• Davies, S. (1997). 'Us' against 'Them': Social identity in Soviet Russia 1934-41. Russian Review, 56(1), 70-89. https://doi.org/10.2307/131486
• Davies, S. (1997). The "cult" of the vozhd': representations in letters 1934-1941. Russian History, 24(1), 131-147. https://doi.org/10.1163/187633197x00087