Vera Tolz

Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic is the Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester.

She received a MA in classics from Saint Petersburg State University in 1981 and a PhD in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Birmingham in 1993.

She was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2017.

Gazetovedenie Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic has extensively written on the subject of Gazetovedenie which is the study of early soviet press. The discipline focuses on aspects such as the effect of propaganda and of communication on society it is viewed by some as the origin of Journalism theory.

Books Russia: Inventing the Nation (2001) Nation and Gender in Contemporary Europe (2005) co-editor Nation and Empire at War (2015) co-editor with Stephen Hutchings, Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television (2015) Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods (2011) Russian Academicians and the Revolution (1997)