Institute for Slavic Studies | Russia
Prof. Dr. Andrey Edemsky is a Candidate of Historical Sciences and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Contemporary History of Central and South-Eastern European Countries, Institute of Slavic Studies, where he has worked since 1988. He graduated with honors from the History Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1985 and defended his PhD dissertation on Yugoslav foreign policy in the Balkan region during 1970–1985. His research focuses on international politics, the history of Yugoslavia and its successor states, Soviet-Yugoslav relations, and the disintegration of multinational communist federations. Edemsky has contributed to numerous domestic and international projects, publications, and archival document collections, including studies on the Cold War, the Prague Spring, and the evolution of socialist political models in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. He has held research positions at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies and completed professional retraining in Documentation Science. Edemsky’s work encompasses historical monographs, essays, and document publications, exploring the interplay of domestic and foreign policy, diplomacy, and political processes in the Balkans and Soviet sphere. His scholarship has informed both academic and policy discussions on the region’s complex history, highlighting the dynamics of ideology, power, and international relations in the 20th century.
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Featured Publications
Edemsky, Andrey. (2022). Zoran Đinđić: Politician Shot at the Top of His Career. In Book Chapter.
Edemskiy, Andrei B. (2021). Belgrade and Moscow on the brink of another conflict: Tito versus Brezhnev in 1968. In Book Chapter.
Edemsky, A.B. (2021). “Without a free, democratic Russia, humanity cannot resist Asian communist totalitarianism”: Mikhail Mikhailov and Milovan Djilas on social development issues in the second half of the 1960s. In Conference Paper.
Edemskiy, Andrey B. (2020). The evolution of approaches of the Soviet leadership to the Yugoslav model of self-government (1950s — the early 1960s). In Book Chapter.
Edemski, Andrej Borisovič & Ninković, Momir. (2019). “‘Misija dobre volje.’ Dobrica Ćosić at the Second All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers (15–26 December 1954).” Istorija 20. veka, Journal Article.