Doctoral Research

23 September 2010 · 2 min read

Candidate of Historical Sciences (History)

I defended my dissertation at Saint Petersburg State University on 23 September 2010 for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences (кандидат исторических наук), specialty 07.00.02 — Russian History.

Dissertation: Trade and Economic Relations between the USSR and Japan from the Mid-1950s to the Early 1980s
Institution: Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of History, Department of Contemporary History of Russia
Supervisor: Prof. Mikhail V. Khodyakov, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Leading institution: Saint Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Research scope

The dissertation examines Soviet–Japanese economic relations from the restoration of post-war trade contacts through the early 1980s. It focuses on:

  • the restoration and development of bilateral trade after the Second World War;
  • coastal trade and regional economic cooperation;
  • Soviet–Japanese scientific and technical relations;
  • fisheries diplomacy and the 1956 fisheries convention;
  • the consequences of 200-mile economic zones in the 1970s;
  • the interaction between political constraints, state institutions, business interests, and regional economic needs.

Sources and archival work

The research is based on diplomatic, economic, statistical, institutional, and personal sources. Archival work included material from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation (AVPRF), including Japan-related files, and the Russian State Archive of the Economy (RGAE).

The study also makes extensive use of Soviet and Japanese statistical collections, trade documentation, institutional records, periodicals, memoirs, and published source collections.

Dissertation record

The dissertation and author’s abstract are catalogued in Russian dissertation databases under Juliana Vladislavovna Kadeshnikova, Saint Petersburg, 2010.