Matthew Kott

Short presentation

Keywords

• antiziganism
• baltic sea region
• communism
• fascism
• history
• history of racism
• holocaust and genocide studies
• latvia
• military history
• social history

Publications

Recent publications

• Why Was There No FEMEN in the Baltic States? (2023)
• Valters Nollendorfs, Valters Ščerbinskis (eds.). The Impossible Resistance: Latvia Between Two Totalitarian Regimes 1940–1991. (Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia, Vol. 29). Rīga: Zinātne, 2021. 264 pp. ISBN 9789934599163 (2023)
• Gaming the System (2022)
• The ghosts of Poltava (2022)
• Defining Latvia (2022)

All publications

Articles

• Valters Nollendorfs, Valters Ščerbinskis (eds.). The Impossible Resistance: Latvia Between Two Totalitarian Regimes 1940–1991. (Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia, Vol. 29). Rīga: Zinātne, 2021. 264 pp. ISBN 9789934599163 (2023)
• The ghosts of Poltava (2022)
• Review of Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism, by J. Subotić (2021)
• Violent resistance (2021)
• Review of Krossade illusioner: Fallet Hermann Kappner och nazistisk infiltration i Sverige 1933–1945 by Birgitta Almgren (2020)
• Intermarium (2019)
• Detangling Putin's web in the West (2018)
• Antisemitism in Contemporary Latvia (2018)
• Review of Mischka's War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York, by Sheila Fitzpatrick (2018)
• From the editor (2018)
• Review of British intelligence and Hitler’s empire in the Soviet Union, 1941–1945 by Ben Wheatley (2018)
• Review of War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe, by Ángel Alcalde (2018)
• Review of Violeta Davoliūtė, The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War (2017)
• Review of Sweden after Nazism: Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War by Johan Östling (2017)
• A far right hijack of Intermarium (2017)
• Review of Aiz šiem vārtiem vaid zeme: Salaspils nometne, 1941–1944 (2017)
• From the editor (2017)
• Belarus's "Angry" Protests (2017)
• Review of Rita Ruduša, Pagrīdes citādība: Homoseksuāļi Padomju Latvijā (2016)
• A struggle for ideals (2016)
• Guest Editors’ Note (2016)
• Latvia’s Pērkonkrusts (2015)
• In the Tracks of Breivik (2015)
• Becoming more "European" – in the wrong way (2015)
• Rysskräck and Sweden's Ambivalence (2015)
• The rise and fall of Belarusian nationalism, 1906–1931 (2015)
• Guest Editors’ Note (2015)
• Björn M. Felder & Paul W. Weindling (eds), Baltic Eugenics: Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918-1940. On The Boundary of Two Worlds. vol. 35. Amsterdam & New York, NY: Rodopi, 2013, 335pp. (2014)
• Latvieši un Latvija: Akadēmiskie raksti. galv. red. Jānis Stradiņš. Rīga: Latvijas Zinātņu akadēmija, 2013. 4 sēj. il., diagr., kartes, tab. (2014)
• Øyvind Strømmen, Den sorte tråden: Europeisk høyreradikalisme fra 1920 til i dag (Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2013). Henrik Arnstad, Älskade fascism: De svartbruna rörelsernas ideologi och historia (Stockholm: Norstedts, 2013). (2014)
• Per Bolin, Between National and Academic Agendas: Ethnic Politics and National Disciplines at the University of Latvia, 1919–1940 (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola 2012). 347 s. (2014)
• Lettland unter deutscher Besatzung 1941–1944: Der lettische Anteil am Holocaust, Katrin Reichelt (Berlin: Metropol, 2011), 428 pp., paperback, € 24.00. (2013)
• Karojošā piemiņa: 16. marts un 9. maijs (2012)
• Rumsrena extremister (2012)
• Sven Jüngerkes: Deutsche Besatzungsverwaltung in Lettland 1941–1945. Eine Kommunikations- und Kulturgeschichte nationalsozialistischer Organisationen, Konstanz: UVK 2010, 575S. (2011)
• New Documents and Old Interpretations on Baltic Collaboration and Nazi Crimes in Belarus (2010)
• Review of A.R. Diukov, V.V. Simindei et al., "Unichtozhit' kak mozhno bol'she...": Latviiskie kollaboratsionistskie formirovaniia na territorii Belorussii, 1942-1944 gg. Sbornik dokumentov (2010)
• Review of Björn M. Felder, Lettland im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Zwischen sowjetischen und deutschen Besatzern 1940–1946 (2010)
• Writing history politically (2010)
• Forskare måste tänka nytt kring romer (2009)
• Review of Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives (2008)
• Review of Utopias of Nation: Local Mass Killing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1941–42 by Tomislav Dulić (2006)

Books

• Defining Latvia (2022)
• Himmlers Norge (2012)

Chapters

• Why Was There No FEMEN in the Baltic States? (2023)
• Gaming the System (2022)
• The Roots of Radicalism (2017)
• The Baltic States (2017)
• The Far Right in Latvia (2016)
• The Fate of the Romani Minorities in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during the Second World War (2015)
• Війна Бйорна Вестлі (2014)
• It is in their DNA (2014)
• Rekrutierung der Waffen-SS im Reichskommissariat Ostland (2012)
• Estonian and Latvian Refugees in Sweden after World War II (2011)
• Antropologen Gaston Backman och den uppsaliensiska rasbiologins spridning i tid och rum (2009)

Conferences

• The Transnational ‘Gypsy’ as a Threat to Law and Order in Sweden (2013)
• Beyond the Soviet Story: Making the Narratives of Russianness in Latvia More Pluralistic (2013)
• The Fate of the Romani Minorities in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during World War II: Problems and Perspectives for Romani Studies and Comparative Genocide Research (2013)
• Extremism in Latvia: New Perspectives and Recent Trends (2013)
• The Roots of Radicalism: Persistent Problems of Class and Ethnicity in Latvia’s Politics (2013)

Other

• Remembering 1989 (2019)
• The far right in Latvia (2016)