Lev Centrih, PhD

Education

• PhD in Sociology

Employment

• The Institute of Civilisation and Culture, ICK in Ljubljana, Researcher (September 2017 – December 2018)
• University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History, Research Associate, Assistant Professor (June 2018 – )
• The Institute of Contemporary History (January 2023 – )

Knowledge and skills

• English (active)
• Croat/Serbian (active)
• German (passive)
• Russian (passive)
• Research Interests

Areas of research

• rural history
• the history of agrarian and peasant questions
• labour history
• social history
• environmental history
• history of radical social movements
• history and theory of ideology
• contemporary Slovenian history

Collaboration in research programmes

• Research of Cultural Formations, P6 – 0278
• Economic, Social and Environmental History of Slovenia, P6-0280(A)

Selected projects

• Migration control in Slovenian area from the times of Austria-Hungary to independent Slovenia, J6-8250
• Concepts of peasant economy: a theoretical and empirical comparative approach (15th – 20th c), J6-1799
• Slovenian history on a small scale: continuity and change in a village community in a long – term perspective (Tomaj, 16th – 20th c.), J6 – 3143

Educational activity:

• UP, Faculty of Humanities
• Ideologies of 19th and 20th centuries, BA level
• Slovenian history 19th and 20th centuries, BA level
• Medieval and early modern history of Slovene regions, BA level
• History of contemporary society, BA level
• Social history of labour, MA level
• Slovenian history, MA level
• History of Russia, MA level

Awards & recognition

• University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Prešern prize for BA dissertation, 2004

Selected publications

• CENTRIH, Lev. Marksistična formacija : zgodovina ideoloških aparatov komunističnega gibanja 20. stoletja. Ljubljana: Založba /*cf., 2011.
• CENTRIH, Lev. The road to collapse : the demise of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Beograd: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe, 2014. 40 str. Research paper series of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe, no. 2. ISBN 978-86-88745-13-0. http://arhiv.rosalux.rs/userfiles/files/Lev_Centrih_Published.pdf.
• CENTRIH, Lev. The Rog Autonomous Factory : a conflict between post-socialist self-management and public-private partnership. Lex localis : revija za lokalno samoupravo. [Tiskana izd.]. Apr. 2018, vol. 16, no. 2, str. 379-394. ISSN 1581-5374. http://pub.lex-localis.info/index.php/LexLocalis/article/view/16.2.379-394%282018%29.
• CENTRIH, Lev. “Kaj naj storim v slučaju, da naši častiti zadružniki ne bodo hoteli povišati deležev?” : Konflikti v Prvi žebljarski in železo-obrtni zadrugi v Kropi in Kamni Gorici v letih 1924-1927. Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino. [Tiskana izd.]. 2020, letn. 60, št. 1, str. 71-85. ISSN 0353-0329. https://ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/view/407