People - Balázs Apor

Course Director, TCD MPhil in European Studies

Balázs Apor completed his doctoral studies at the European University Institute at Florence. He is Lecturer in European Studies in the Centre for European Studies and the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, and Director of the European Studies MPhil programme at Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Apor's research interests include the study of symbolic politics in Central and Eastern Europe under communist rule and the Sovietization process in the region in particular, and the social, political and cultural landscape of 20th century Eastern Europe in general.

He is co-editor of two volumes:

• The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc (2004),
• The Sovietization of Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on the Postwar Period (2008),

and a number of articles on the communist leader cult.