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School of American and Global Studies

William Prigge

William Prigge

Title

Professor of History

Office Building

Lincoln Hall

Office

219

Mailing Address

Lincoln Hall 219
School of American and Global Studies-Box 2212
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

  • Ph.D. | Marquette University | 2005

Academic Interests

  • Modern World Civilization
  • Nazi and Soviet Europe
  • Imperialism

Committees and Professional Memberships

  • Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies

Grants

  • J. William Fulbright Scholarship (2003-04) - Riga, Latvia
  • J. William Fulbright Scholarship (2021) - Chisinau, Moldova

Areas of Research

  • Soviet Union after the Second World War
    • Soviet Republics
    • Latvian National Communists
    • Moldova in the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev

Publications

Books

  1. Prigge, William D. Bearslayers: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists. New York: Peter Lang. (2015) DOI: 10.3726/978-1-4539-1468-7

Reviews of Book

  1. Plakans, Andrejs. "Review, Bearslayers: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists." Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.25627/201665410122
  2. Swain, Geoffrey. "Review, Bearslayers: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists." Europe-Asia Studies, 2015-11-26. DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2015.1102521
  3. Loader, Michael. "Review, Bearslayers: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists." Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015-07-03. DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2015.1073920 

Journal Articles

  1. Prigge, William D and Tarita, Marius. "Moldova, the Latvian Purges and Khrushchev's Generational Struggle, 1958-62." Europe-Asia Studies. (June 2024): 950-974. DOI: 10.25627/201665410122
  2. Prigge, William D. “Power, Popular Opinion and the Latvian National Communists.” Journal of Baltic Studies. (Fall 2014): 305-319. DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2013.853200
  3. Prigge, William D. “The 1959 Latvian Purges: A Revisionist Study.” Journal of Baltic Studies. (Fall 2004): 211-230. DOI: 10.1080/01629770400000081 

Book Chapters

  1. Prigge, William D. 2011. Sovietization, Russification and Nationalism in Post-War Latvia. In The Baltic States under Stalinist Rule. Ed. Olaf Mertelsmann. Köln: Böhlau Köln. DOI: 10.7788/9783412506049-006
  2. Prigge, William D. 2010. The Strange Death of Latvian National Communism. In From Recognition to Restoration: Latvia’s History as a Nation-State. Eds. David J. DOI: 10.1163/9789042030992_007

Newspaper Articles 

  1. “Berija Latvija—draugs vai ienaidnieks“ Diena. October 15, 2005.
  2. “Latvijas nacionalo komunistu izskirosais bridis.” Diena. June 12, 2004.

Invited Workshops

  1. Keynote Speaker, 13th Annual Vilnius Symposium on Soviet and Post-Soviet Issues. Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, Dec. 2024.
  2. “Conference of Political Historians of the Post-War Soviet Union," University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 2022.
  3. “Friends, Neighbours and Competitors with the Soviet ‘Friendship of Nations’” Upsala University, Sweden, October 2019.
  4. Invited Speaker on Latvian National Communists at the Symposium Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of Latvian Independence, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, November 2008.
  5. "Russification and National Communists in Post-War Latvia” Invited Workshop on the Baltic States under Stalinist Rule, University of Tartu, Estonia, October 2008.

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