Elaine MacKinnon, Ph.D.
Professor of History
678-839-6048
emcclarn@westga.e du
Technology Learning Center - Room 3222
Office Hours
Virtual: Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm and by appt
Fields of Study: Medieval and Imperial Russia, Soviet History, Contemporary Russia
Dr. MacKinnon's current research interests include Stalinism, Soviet historians and reinterpretation of Stalin, and forced labor in the former USSR.
- B.A., Slavic Languages and Literature; Certificate in Russian Studies, Princeton University, 1983
- Certificate, Georgia NT-4 Secondary School Social Sciences Teaching Certificate, Armstrong State College, 1986
- M.A., Modern European History, Emory University, 1990
- Ph.D., Modern European History, Emory University, 1995
Spring 2025 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-6685 (Cold War Society & Culture) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2024 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 91D external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-4485 (Islam & Soc. in Central Asia) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2024 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E08 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-4419 (The Cold War) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-6481 (Readings in Cold War Politics) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2023 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2023 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2023 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-3351 (Imperial Russia) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-3351 (Imperial Russia) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2022 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 05 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2022 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2022 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E14 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 06 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 07 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2021 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2021 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E05 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2021 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-3351 (Imperial Russia) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2020 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Places of Encounter: Time, Place, and Connectivity in World History, Volumes I and II, Westview Press, 2012
Elaine MacKinnon, Translator and Editor, Miklashevskaya, Ludmilla. Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia: A Life in the Shadow of Stalin’s Terror. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Translator and Editor, V.A. Kozlov, Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the USSR (M.E. Sharpe, 2002). [View Publication External Resource]
“Grasping at the Whirlwinds of Change: Transitional Leadership in Comparative Perspective: The Case Studies of Mikhail Gorbachev and F.W. de Klerk,” Canadian Journal of History, XLIII (Spring-Summer 2008), 69-107.
“Writing History for Stalin: Isaak Izrailovich Mints and the Istoriia Grazhdanskoi Voiny,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 6, 1(Winter 2005): 5-54.
“Glasnost and the Independent Press: Debates Over Stalinism During the Perestroika Period, 1985-1991,” in S.M. Usmanov, ed., Sotsial’no-Gumanitarnye Nauki v Vysshey Shkole na Rubezhe XX-XXI: Problemy i Puti Resheniia (Birsk: Birsk State Pedagogical
“The Politics of History and Historical Revisionism: De-Stalinization and the Search for Identity in Gorbachev’s Russia, 1985-1991,” The History Teacher, Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 1998), pp. 153-171.
Co-author with Steve Goodson, “Introduction” in Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. XXXVI, “The Impact of the Cold War on American Popular Culture,” April 1999.
“The Debate Continues: Views on Stalinism from the Former Soviet Union,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1993), pp. 11-33.
“The Human Factor in Soviet History,” A Review Essay of Dmitri Volkogonov, Autopsy for an Empire and Martin McCauley, Gorbachev, published by H-Russia, December 12, 1999.
Review essay on Suzanne Sternthal, Gorbachev’s Reforms and Mark Galeotti, Gorbachev and His Revolution, Russian History, Vol. 25, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998), pp. 492-496.
Translation from Russian to English of Oleg Khlevnuik, Review Essay on Stalin’s Terror and Stalin’s “Loyal Executioner,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 4, 3 (Summer 2003), pp. 760-767.
Translation from Russian to English of E.A. Osokina, “Lynne Viola and Peasant Rebels Under Stalin. Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance,” International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 54 (Fall 1998)
Translation from Russian to English of H.A. Osokina, “Soviet Workers and Rationing Norms, 1928-1935: Real or Illusory Privilege?” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-3 (1992), pp. 53-70.
The Forgotten Victims: Childhood and the Soviet Gulag, 1929-1953, The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, Number 2203 (University Library System, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012).