Professor Graeme Gill

BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FASSA

BACKGROUND

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 is also President of the International Council for Central and East European Studies.

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. His most recent book is on the role of symbols in post-Soviet Russia.

RESEARCH

Research Interests

• Russian politics
• Soviet politics
• Comparative authoritarian regimes
• Democratisation
• Origins and development of the state

PUBLICATIONS

Books Authored and Edited

Gill, G 2013, Symbols and Regime Change in Russia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Gill, G & Young, J (eds) 2011, Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society, Routledge, London.

Gill, G 2011, Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Gill, G 2008, Bourgeoisie, State, and Democracy: Russia, Britain, France, Germany, and the USA, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Gill, G (ed) 2007, Politics in the Russian Regions, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Gill, G 2003, The Nature and Development of the Modern State, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Gill, G 2002, Democracy and Post-communism - Political change in the post-communist world, Routledge, London and New York.

Gill, G & Markwick, R 2000, Russia"s stillborn democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Gill, G 2000, The dynamics of Democratization. Elites, civil society and the transition process, MacMillan and St Martin's Press, Basingstoke and New York.

Gill, G 1998, Stalinism, MacMillan and St Martin"s Press, MacMillan and St Martin's Press, Basingstoke and New York.

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.

Gill, G & Pitty R 1997 Power in the Party - The Organization of Power and Central-Republican Relations in the CPSU, MacMillan, Basingstoke.

Gill, G 1994, The collapse of a single-party system : the disintegration of the CPSU, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

White S, Gill, G & Slider, D 1993 The politics of transition : shaping a post-Soviet future, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and Oakleigh, Vic.

Gill, G 1990, The origins of the Stalinist political system, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

Gill, G 1988, The rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York.

Gill, G 1987, Twentieth century Russia : the search for power and authority, Nelson, Melbourne.

Gill, G 1979, Peasants and government in the Russian Revolution, MacMillan, Basingstoke.

Refereed Journal Articles

Gill, G 2012, "The Decline of a Dominant Party and the Destabilization of Electoral Authoritarianism", Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 449-471.

Gill, G & D. Maguire 2011, "Movements and Institutions: Analysing the Collapse of the Soviet Union", Slovansky Prehled, vol. 97, no. 1-2.

Gill, G 2010, "Destalinisation and the Question of the Reformability of the Soviet Union", Debatte. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, vol 18, no 2.

Gill, G 2008, "'Lenin Lives': Or Does He? Symbols and the Transition from Socialism", Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 173-96.

Gill, G 2006, "A New Turn to Authoritarian Rule In Russia?" Democratization, vol. 13, pp. 58-77.

Gill, G 2006, "Nationalism and the Transitional to Democracy: The Post-Soviet Experience", Demokratizatsiya, vol. 14, pp. 613-26.

Gill, G 2005, "Changing Symbols: The Renovation of Moscow Place-Names", The Russian Review, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 480-503.

Gill, G 2002, "The Failure of Democracy in Russia", Perspectives on European Politics and Society, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 169-197.

Gill, G 2001, "Culture, Democracy and Post-Communism: The Course of Regime Change in Eastern Europe", Acta Politica, vol. 36, pp. 47-70.

Gill, G 2000, "Predatory capitalism or capitalism Russian-Style?" Government and Opposition, vol. 35, no 2, pp. 255-260.

Gill, G 2000, "Russia's weak state: What is to be done?" Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, vol. 14, no. 1-2, pp. 99-132.

Gill, G 2000, "The Russian Duma elections of 1999: The main game?" Russian and Euro-Asian Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-11.

Gill, G 1998, "Democratization, the Bourgeoisie and Russia", Government and Opposition, vol. 33, no 3, pp. 307-329.

Gill, G 1997, "Democratic Consolidation in Russia?" Acta Politica, vol. 32.

Gill, G 1991, "Sources of Political Reform in the Soviet Union", Studies in Comparative Communism, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 235-257.

Gill, G 1988, "Bolshevism and the Party Form", Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 51-63.

Gill, G 1987, "The Single Party as an Agent of Development Lessons from the Soviet Experience", World Politics, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 566-578.

Gill, G 1986, "Changing Patterns of Systemic Legitimation in the Ussr", Coexistence, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 247-266.

Gill, G 1986, "The Future of the General Secretary", Political Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 223-235.

Gill, G 1985, "Institutionalization and Revolution Rules and the Soviet Political System", Soviet Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 212-226.

Book Chapters

Gill, G 2012, "The Yeltsin Presidency" and "The Medvedev Presidency", in G Gill & J Young (eds), Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society, Routledge, London.

Gill, G 2010, "Building the Communist Future: Legitimation and the Soviet City", in S Fortescue (ed), Russian Politics from Lenin to Putin, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Gill, G 2009, "The Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms", in D Rowney & E Huskey (eds), Russian Officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Gill, G 2007, "Introduction: Power and the Russian Regions", and "Conclusion: Democratization and Regional Politics", in G Gill (ed), Politics in the Russian Regions, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Gill, G 2007, "The Russian Empires", in R Aldrich (ed), Age of Empires, Thames & Hudson, London.

Gill, G 2007, "Australia and the USSR: From Cold War to Perestroika", in A Massov, J McNair & T Poole (eds), Encounters Under the Southern Cross. Two Centuries of Russian-Australian Relations 1807-200 Crawford House Publishing, Adelaide.

Gill, G 2006, "clientelism", "Communist Party of the Soviet Union", "constitutions", "elections", "single party system", entries in S Pons & R Service (eds), Dizionario de communismo nel xx secolo vols 1 & 2, Giuliu Einaudi Editore, Turin.

Gill, G 2004, "Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Destalinization, Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, Politburo, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin" in J Millar (ed), Encyclopedia of Russian History, Macmillan Reference, New York.

Gill, G 2004, Russia’s Stunted Civil Society and the Presidential Regime", in G Flikke (ed), The Uncertainties of Putin’s Democracy, Norwegian Institute of International affairs, Oslo.

Gill, G 2003, "Communist Party of the Soviet Union", "destalinization", "Andrei Andreevich Gromyko", "Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin", "Politburo", "Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin", in J Millar et al (eds), Encyclopedia of Russian History Macmillan Reference, New York.

Gill, G 2000, "Stalinism and the Fall of the Soviet Union", in S Wheatcroft (ed), Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Palgrave, Basingstoke.

Gill, G 2002, "Stalinism and the Fall of the Soviet Union", in S Wheatcroft (ed), Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Palgrave, Basingstoke.

Gill, G 2001, "Vladimir Putin and the Future of the Russian Presidency", in V Tikhomirov (ed), Russia After Yeltsin, Ashgate Press, Aldershot.

Gill, G 2000, "The Soviet mechanism of power and the fall of the Soviet Union", in N Rosenfeldt, B Jensen and E Kulavig (eds), Mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union, MacMillan, Basingstoke.

Gill, G 1998, "Elites and the Russian transition" in Elites and Leadership", in Russian Politics, St. Martins Press, New York.

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.

Selected Conference Papers

Gill, G 2004, "Russia Stunted Civil Society and the Presidential Regime Putin"s Democracy:Transitional Managed or Illiberal?", Oslo, Norway,23 January, 2004.

Gill, G 2002, "From the Peasants to the Bourgeoisie: Dealing with the Soviet Collapse", paper presented at the 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.

Reports

Gill, G 1985 "The Soviet Union under Gorbachev", Discussion Paper, Department of the Parliamentary Library.