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Stefan Guzvica
Stefan is assistant professor of history at the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. He is a researcher of communism and is currently working on a monograph on the Balkan communist parties in the interwar period. Aside from the history of communism, he is passionate about architecture and the avant-garde art of the 1920s. Stefan previously completed his PhD at the University of Regensburg, his MA at Central European University, Budapest, and his BA at the Anglo-American University in Prague. He is the author of Before Tito, a book on Yugoslav communism in the time of Stalin’s Great Purge.
Education:University of Regensburg, 2022PhD HistoryCentral-European University, 2018MA Comparative HistoryAnglo-American University, 2006BA Humanities, Society and CultureExpertise:Articles by Stefan Guzvica
Albanian communism propelled Europe’s poorest country into the 20th century. It was also marked by repression, isolation, and paranoia.
Enver Hoxha led socialist Albania for forty-one years and its ruling party for forty-four, yet he had been brought to power virtually by accident.
Gavrilo Princip entered history as the man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand thanks to a wrong turn by the Archduke’s driver, sparking World War I.
In the early 20th century, the Russian tradition of writing letters to the Tsar became a troubling signal of new and uncertain times.
