Dr Robert Horvath

CERC Fellow

Charles La Trobe Research Fellow
School of Social Sciences
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Victoria

e-mail: r.horvath@latrobe.edu.au

Robert Horvath's main areas of current research and teaching are East Central European history; Russian history; and human rights in the modern world. He is specialist in the history of human rights and is currently a Charles La Trobe Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University. He was a deputy director of CERC from 2004 until mid 2006

His current research preoccupations include the phenomenon of ‘Velvet Revolutions’ in the former Soviet Union, the relationship between revolution and human rights, and the role of the persecuted in the development of human rights. His op-ed articles on human rights, refugees and Australian diplomacy have been published in The Age, The Australian and The Diplomat.

Publications

• Horvath, R., ‘The Solzhenitsyn Effect: East European Dissidents and the Demise of the Revolutionary Privilege,’ Human Rights Quarterly, November 2007 (forthcoming)
• Horvath, R., ‘The Poet of Terror: Demyan Bednyi and Stalinist Culture,’ Russian Review, Volume 65, No.1 (January 2006), pp.53-71
  
• Horvath, R., The Legacy of Soviet Dissent: Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia, (London: Routledge, 2005)
  
• Horvath, R., ‘The Trial of the Century or Theatre of the Absurd? The Constitutional Court Case against the CPSU as the Final Act of Perestroika’, Australian Slavonic Studies, Vol. 16, Nos.1-2, (2002), pp.125-153
  
• Horvath, R., ‘The Dissident Roots of Glasnost’ in S.G. Wheatcroft (ed), Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002), pp.173-202
  
• Horvath, R., ‘The Spectre of Russophobia,’ (on Igor Shafarevich, the Russian human rights activist who became a leading radical nationalist) The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 25, No.2, (1998), pp.199-222
  
• Horvath, R., ‘The Origins of the Gracchan Revolution,’ in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, VII, edited by Carl Deroux (Brussels: Revue d’études Latines, 1994), pp.87-116