Vanessa Denise Aline Voisin

V. Voisin teaches modern Russian and Soviet history at the University of Bologna. Her research on Soviet politics and society through the prism of justice increasingly integrates transnational dynamics. She published a book on the Soviet postwar purges (translation in English in process) and various articles and chapters on repatriation, Soviet documentary cinema during the war, Soviet accountability in the 1960s in its domestic and international dimensions. Among recent publications: E. Le Bourhis, I. Tcherneva, V. Voisin, eds., Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe: A People’s Justice? (University of Rochester Press, 2022)

PhD in history Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (2011), post-doctoral positions in France and the Russian Federation (2012-2019).

Section editor of the Journal of Perpetrator Research (Open Access) since 2025. Member of the editorial board of Cahiers d’histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (CHREECC) since 2026.

Web of Sciences researcher's ID: IRZ-0497-2023

Scopus researcher's ID: 26033763000