Boris Kolonitskii graduated from the History Department at the Herzen State Pedagogical University in Leningrad in 1976. In 1987, he received his candidate degree from the Leningrad Institute of History of Academy of Sciences; in 2002, in the St. Petersburg Institute of History (Russian Academy of Sciences) awarded him his doctoral degree in History.

Currently, Boris Kolonitskii is a professor at the European University at St. Petersburg and a senior research fellow at St. Petersburg Institute of History (Russian Academy of Sciences).

Representative Publications:

“Comrade Kerensky”: An Anti-monarchical Revolution and the Cult of the “Leader of the People” (March – June, 1917). Moscow, 2017.  («Товарищ Керенский»: антимонархическая революция и формирование культа «вождя народа» (март — июнь 1917 года). Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2017.)

Tragic Erotica: Images of the Royal Family During WWI” («Трагическая эротика»: Образы императорской семьи в годы Первой мировой войны. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2010)

Symbols of Power and the Power Struggle: Exploring the Political Culture of the 1917 Russian Revolution (St. Petersburgh, 2001). Символы власти и борьба за власть: к изучению политической культуры российской революции 1917 года (C-Петербург, 2001, 2011)

Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917. (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1999. 198 p. ) Co-authored with Orlando Figes. Translated into Spanish in 2001.

“Democracy” in the Political Consciousness of the February Revolution // Slavic Review. 1998. Vol. 57, N 1. P.95-106.

Antibourgeois Propaganda and Anti-“Burzhui” Consciousness in 1917 // The Russian Review. 1994. Vol. 53. P.183-196. Transl. K. S. Schultz.