{"id":6,"date":"2016-02-17T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2016-02-17T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T12:42:09","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"staffname\"><strong>Dr Robert Dale<\/strong><br \/>\n<small><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: large\">Lecturer in Russian History<\/span><\/small><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/files\/2016\/02\/Profile-picture.jpg\" alt=\"Profile picture\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\">I\u00a0<\/span><\/span>am a historian of twentieth-century Russian and Soviet history, with a particular interest in the late Stalinist period (1945-1953).\u00a0 I re-joined Newcastle University and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology in September 2015, having previously taught Russian history\u00a0at Newcastle\u00a0in 2010-11.<\/p>\n<p>I am particularly interested in the impact of war and violence upon Russian\/Soviet society, the impact of the Great Patriotic War on the Soviet Union, the demobilisation and post-war adjustment of Red Army veterans, the history of St. Petersburg \/ Petrograd\u00a0\/ Leningrad and the Late Stalinist period.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:robert.dale@ncl.ac.uk\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">robert.dale@ncl.ac.uk<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7853<\/li>\n<li>Address: School of History, Classics and Archaeology,<br \/>\nFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,<br \/>\nArmstrong Building,<br \/>\nNewcastle University<br \/>\nNewcastle upon Tyne<br \/>\nNE1 7RU<br \/>\nUnited Kingdom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this blog I&#8217;m going to posting about my research activity on my current project &#8220;From Fractured Society to Stability: Overcoming the Aftermath of the Great Patriotic War&#8221;\u00a0 which explores the complicated process of post-war reconstruction and recover in Soviet Russia after 1945.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be using this blog as a platform for posting about and reflecting on some of my impact related activity, related to this project, and my on-going work on the demobilization and post-war readjustment of veterans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"staffname\"><\/h3>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Robert Dale Lecturer in Russian History I\u00a0am a historian of twentieth-century Russian and Soviet history, with a particular interest in the late Stalinist period (1945-1953).\u00a0 I re-joined Newcastle University and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology in September &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/about-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6000,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/robertdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}