Professor Graeme Gill
BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FASSA
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Graeme Gill joined the Department in 1981 and was appointed to the Chair in 1990. He has been a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1994, and has held a variety of positions in the University, including Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), Deputy Chair of the Academic Board, Chair of the Academic Forum, Associate Dean in the Faculty of Economics, and Head of the School of Economics and Political Science. He has been an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow and a member of the ARC College of Experts.
He has held visiting positions in Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Washington, Moscow, St Petersburg and Florence, and is currently on a number of editorial boards. His main research interests lie in Russian and Soviet politics, but he has also published books on various aspects of democratisation and on the origins and development of the state. His most recent book is on the role of symbols in the Soviet political system, while a book in press studies symbols in post-Soviet Russia. He is currently working on an ARC-funded project on political stability in authoritarian regimes.
Research Interests
- Russian politics
- Soviet politics
- Comparative authoritarian regimes
- Democratisation
- Origins and development of the state
Publications
2012
Book/s
Gill G & J. Young (eds), Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society (London: Routledge).
Book Section/s
Gill G 2012, “The Yeltsin Presidency” and “The Medvedev Presidency”, G. Gill & J. Young (eds), Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society (London: Routledge).
2011
Book/s
Gill G 2011, Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Journal Article/s
Gill G & D. Maguire 2011, “Movements and Institutions: Analysing the Collapse of the Soviet Union”, Slovansky Prehled 97, 1-2.
2010
Book Section/s
Gill G 2010, “Building the Communist Future: Legitimation and the Soviet City”, Stephen Fortescue (ed), Russian Politics from Lenin to Putin (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
Journal Article/s
Gill G 2010, “Destalinisation and the Question of the Reformability of the Soviet Union”, Debatte. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 18, 2, August.
2009
Book Section/s
Gill G 2009, “The Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms”, Don K. Rowney & Eugene Huskey (eds), Russian Officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
2008
Book/s
Gill G 2008, Bourgeoisie, State, and Democracy: Russia, Britain, France, Germany, and the USA, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Journal Article/s
Gill G 2008, ‘”Lenin Lives”: Or Does He? Symbols and the Transition from Socialism’, Europe-Asia Studies, 60 (2), March 2008, pp.173-96.
2007
Book/s
Gill G 2007 'Politics in the Russian Regions' (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Edited, pp.xii & 219.
Book Section/s
Gill G 2007 “Introduction: Power and the Russian Regions”, and “Conclusion: Democratization and Regional Politics”, Graeme Gill (ed), Politics in the Russian Regions (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Gill G 2007 “The Russian Empires”, Robert Aldrich (ed), Age of Empires (London, Thames & Hudson, 2007).
Gill G 2007 “Australia and the USSR: From Cold War to Perestroika”, Alexander Massov, John McNair & Thomas Poole (eds), Encounters Under the Southern Cross. Two Centuries of Russian-Australian Relations 1807-2007 (Adelaide, Crawford House Publishing, 2007), pp.232-252.
2006
Book Section/s
Gill G 2006 Entries in Silvio Pons & Robert Service (eds), Dizionario de communismo nel xx secolo vols 1 & 2 (Turin, Giuliu Einaudi Editore,2006 & 2007): “clientelism”, “Communist Party of the Soviet Union”, “constitutions”, “elections”, “single party system”.
Journal Article/s
Gill G 2006 'A New Turn to Authoritarian Rule In Russia?' Democratization, vol.13, February 2006, pp. 58-77.
Gill G 2006 'Nationalism and the Transitional to Democracy: The Post-Soviet Experience', Demokratizatsiya, vol.14, Fall 2006, pp. 613-26.
2005
Journal Article/s
Gill G 2005 'Changing Symbols: The Renovation of Moscow Place-Names', The Russian Review, vol.64:3, July 2005, pp. 480-503.
2004
Book Section/s
Gill G 2004 'Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Destalinization, Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, Politburo, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin' in Encyclopedia of Russian History, ed. James Millar, Macmillan Reference, New York, USA.
Journal Article/s
Gill G 2004 Russia’s Stunted Civil Society and the Presidential Regime”, Geir Flikke (ed), The Uncertainties of Putin’s Democracy (Oslo, Norwegian Institute of International affairs, 2004).
Conference Proceeding/s
Gill G 2004 'Russia Stunted Civil Society and the Presidential Regime', Putin's Democracy:Transitional Managed or Illiberal?, Oslo, Norway,23 January, 2004.
2003
Book/s
Gill G 2003 The Nature and Development of the Modern State, Palgrave, Basingstoke. pp.xiv & 301
Journal Article/s
Gill G 2003 Entries in James R. Millar et al (eds), Encyclopedia of Russian History New York, Macmillan Reference, 2003): “Communist Party of the Soviet Union”, “destalinization”, “Andrei Andreevich Gromyko”, “Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin”, “Politburo”, “Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin”.
2002
Book/s
Gill G 2002 Democracy and Post-communism - Political change in the post-communist world, Routledge, London and New York pp.xvi & 272.
Book Section/s
Gill G 2002 'Stalinism and the Fall of the Soviet Union' in Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, ed. Stephen G. Wheatcroft, Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK pp. 217-234.
Journal Article/s
Gill G 2002 'The Failure of Democracy in Russia', Perspectives on European Politics and Society, vol.3:2, 2002, pp. 169-197.
Conference Paper/s
Gill G 2002 'From the Peasants to the Bourgeoisie: Dealing with the Soviet Collapse',Australian Political Science Association Conference, Australian National University.
Gill G 2002 'The Failure of Democracy: Lack of Will or Lack of Capacity?'Russia-Ten Years of Post-Communist Reforms, Melbourne University.
2001
Journal Article/s
Gill G 2001 'Vladimir Putin and the Future of the Russian Presidency' in Russia After Yeltsin, ed. Vladimir Tikhomirov, Ashgate Press, Aldershot, 2001 pp. 16-33.
Gill G 2001 'Culture, Democracy and Post-Communism: The Course of Regime Change in Eastern Europe', Acta Politica, vol.36, Spring 2001, pp. 47-70.
2000
Book/s
Gill G and Markwick R 2000 Russia's stillborn democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin, Oxford University Press, Oxford pp.x & 280.
Gill G 2000 The dynamics of Democratization. Elites, civil society and the transition process, MacMillan and St Martin's Press, Basingstoke and New York pp.vii & 287.
Journal Article/s
Gill G 2000 'The Soviet mechanism of power and the fall of the Soviet Union' in Mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union, ed. N.E.Rosenfeldt, B. Jensen and E. Kulavig, MacMillan, Basingstoke pp. 3-22. Also appearing in revised form as "Stalinism and the Fall of the Soviet Union", Stephen Wheatcroft (ed), Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002), pp.217-234.
Gill G 2000 'Predatory capitalism or capitalism Russian-Style?' Government and Opposition, vol.35:2, spring 2000, pp. 255-260 (review article).
Gill G 2000 'Russia's weak state: What is to be done?' Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, vol.14:1-2, 2000, pp. 99-132.
Gill G 2000 'The Russian Duma elections of 1999: The main game?' Russian and Euro-Asian Bulletin, vol.9:1, January-February 2000, pp. 1-11.
1998
Book/s
Gill G 1998 Stalinism, MacMillan and St Martin's Press, Basingstoke and New York.
Book Section/s
Gill G 1998 'Elites and the Russian transition' in Elites and Leadership in Russian Politics, St. Martins Press, New York pp. 134-157.
Edited Book/s
Gill G 1998 Elites and leadership in Russian politics : selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995, MacMillan and St. Martin's Press, Basingstoke and New York.
Journal Article/s
Gill G 1998 'Democratization, the Bourgeoisie and Russia', Government and Opposition, vol.33:3, pp. 307-329.
1997
Book/s
Gill G and Pitty R 1997 Power in the Party - The Organization of Power and Central-Republican Relations in the CPSU, MacMillan, Basingstoke.
Book Section/s
Gill G 1997 'Australian Relations with the Former Communist States of Europe and the Soviet Union' in Seeking Asian Engagement: Australia in World Affairs 1991-95, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Journal Article/s
Gill G 1997 'Democratic Consolidation in Russia?' Acta Politica, vol.32.
1994
Book/s
Gill G 1994 The collapse of a single-party system : the disintegration of the CPSU, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.
1993
Book/s
White S, Gill G and Slider D 1993 The politics of transition : shaping a post-Soviet future, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and Oakleigh, Vic.
1991
Journal Article/s
Gill G 1991 'Sources of Political Reform in the Soviet Union', Studies in Comparative Communism, vol.24:3, pp. 235-257.
1990
Book/s
Gill G 1990 The origins of the Stalinist political system, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.
1988
Book/s
Gill G 1988 The rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York.
Journal Article/s
Gill G 1988 'Bolshevism and the Party Form', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol.34:1, pp. 51-63.
1987
Book/s
Gill G 1987 Twentieth century Russia : the search for power and authority, Nelson, Melbourne.
Journal Article/s
Gill G 1987 'The Single Party as an Agent of Development Lessons from the Soviet Experience', World Politics, vol.39:4, pp. 566-578.
1986
Journal Article/s
Gill G 1986 'Changing Patterns of Systemic Legitimation in the Ussr', Coexistence, vol.23:3, pp. 247-266.
Gill G 1986 'The Future of the General Secretary', Political Studies, vol.34:2, pp. 223-235.
1985
Journal Article/s
Gill G 1985 'Institutionalization and Revolution Rules and the Soviet Political System', Soviet Studies, vol.37:2, pp. 212-226.
Report/s
Gill G 1985 'The Soviet Union under Gorbachev', Discussion Paper, Department of the Parliamentary Library
.1979
Book/s
Gill G 1979 Peasants and government in the Russian Revolution, MacMillan, Basingstoke.