Jean-Guy Lalande

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Jean-Guy Lalande

Associate Professor
Department
Campus Location
Nicholson Tower Rm 519
Email
Phone
(902) 867-3947
Biography

Dr. JeanGuy Lalande received his Master of Arts from Université Laval and his PhD from McGill University. His main areas of scholarly interest are Eastern European and Russian History, as well as the History of the First World War. He has a particular interest in the modern history of the papacy.  He also teaches in the Humanities Colloquium.  

Research

Russia-Canada and World War I

Publications

ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS

[Forthcoming] Rev. of Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual LIfe under Stalin and Khrushchev by Benjamin Tromly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiv-295p. In Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation, (details to be announced).

[Forthcoming] Rev. of Was Hitler a Riddle?: Western Democracies and National Socialism, by Abraham Ascher. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. In The European Legacy, (details to be announced).

[Forthcoming] Rev. of La désintégration de la Yougoslavie et l'émergence de sept États successeurs, by Renéo Lukic. (Québec): Presses de l'Université Laval, 2013.  xxxii-692p. In Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue canadienne des slavistes, (details to be announced).

Rev. of Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution, Michael C. Hickey, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood/ABC-Clio, 2011.  xiii-599p. In The Russian Review, Vol. 74, No. 2 (April 2015): 335-336.

Rev. of Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy, by Patrick J. Kelly. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011 xii-585p. In The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Vol. 20, No. 5 (August - September 2015): 565-566.

“On Suffering and Consolation in Times of War,” Histoire Sociale/Social History Vol. XLVII, No. 95 (Novembre/November 2014): 788-798.

Rev. of The Great War as I Saw It, by Frederick George Scott.  Introduction by Mark G. McGowan.  Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. xliv - 327p. Rev. of Canada's Great War, 1914-1918: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation, by Douglas Tennyson. Lanham, MD.:Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xvi-233p. In The Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 97, No. 1 (March 2016).

Rev. of From Nazism to Communism: German Schoolteachers under Two Dictatorships, by Charles B. Lansing. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. x-307p. In Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Fall/Automne 2013): 179-180.

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES

“The Death of Mao Zedong as Commented in Canadian Newspapers”, lecture, Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, 31 May 2015.

“Failure or Success? The Vatican and World War I”, Catholic Studies lecture, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, 19 November 2014.