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Seth Bernstein is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on Soviet and post-Soviet history, digital humanities, and Stalinist-era social dynamics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2013) and previously taught at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
His major works include Return to the Motherland: Displaced Soviets in WWII and the Cold War (2023) and Raised under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism (2017). He has translated seminal works like Alexander Vatlin's Agents of Terror and Liudmila Novikova's An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative.
His current projects explore Soviet Jewish arrests post-1953 and machine learning analysis of secret police archives. His digital humanities work employs GIS, databases, and neural networks, published in Memory Studies and Slavic Review.
Bernstein's research bridges historical analysis with computational methods, examining themes like repatriation trauma, Stalinist repression, and youth politicization. He contributes to debates on archival ethics and digital memory politics in post-Soviet contexts.
