Giovanni Cadioli earned a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from the University of Trento (2007–2010), followed by a Joint Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES) from the University of Bologna and Corvinus University of Budapest (2010–2012).

He then completed a Master of Science in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College (2012–2013), where he began his doctoral studies in 2013. He received his PhD in History in 2018.

From 2019 to 2023, he was a Teaching Fellow and Professeur Vacataire at Sciences Po, teaching at the Paris, Le Havre, and Reims campuses. He was also a Research Fellow at the University of Padua's Department of Historical, Geographical and Ancient Sciences (2019–2020), contributing to the project Daily Bread. The Rise of the Global Wheat Market (1840–1914). From 2020 to 2022, he served as a Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, working on the project An Environmental History of Warfare.

He is currently a fixed-term Assistant Professor (RTDA) at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padua. His current project, EAST-ECON. Ties Across Divides: New Perspectives on Eastern European Economic Relations from the Late Soviet Period to the Post-Communist Era (1980s–1990s), is funded by the PNRR under the Young Researchers SoE program.

He is also an Associate Scholar at the Center for the Study and Analysis of Contemporary Russia (University of Rome Tor Vergata) [link].

His research primarily focuses on Soviet political and economic history, while also encompassing the environmental history of World War I and the social and economic history of 19th-century Odessa.

He has published widely in Italian and international journals, authored two monographs in Italian (2022, 2025), and is currently completing a monograph in English (forthcoming 2026).

PUBLICATIONS

Il pianificatore. Economia, politica e potere in URSS. Bologna, il Mulino, 2025.

“Lo sport in Unione Sovietica: Stato, università e ruolo politico-ideologico”, Annali di Storia delle università italiane, 1, 2024, pp. 115-136.

“L’economia di comando prima dello stalinismo: ripensare l’Unione Sovietica degli anni Venti”, Storica, 29/86, 2023, pp. 57-108.

“La “Firenze di Russia” e il “grande mercato del grano”: Società ed economia a Odessa attraverso la letteratura di viaggio occidentale del xix secolo”, Ricerche Storiche, 52/2, 2023, pp. 79-98.

“The Politics of Rehabilitation in the USSR under Khrushchev: The case of Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesenskii”, Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell’800 e del ‘900, 26/2, 2023, pp. 221-249.

“‘Economic Levers’ in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s: from ‘Workarounds’ to tools for Reform and Constructing Communism”, Cahiers du Monde Russe, 64/1, 2023, pp. 135-170.

“Enemies in high places: The battle for Mount Scorluzzo (1915-1918) through the lenses of military and environmental history”, Memoria e Ricerca. Rivista di storia contemporanea, 30/71/3, 2022, pp. 501-536.

“Introduzione”, in V.I. Lenin, Lo sviluppo del capitalismo in Russia (1899), Milano: Edizioni Pgreco, 2022

Il monolite e il mutamento. Continuità e trasformazioni nella politica ed economia dell’Unione Sovietica, 1917-1953. Milano: Mimesis Edizioni, 2022.

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