• "Å skape mening i konsolideringens navn". Den russiske revolusjonens hundreårsjubileum 

      Nielsen, Jens Petter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The centenary of the Russian Revolution is to be commemorated in 2017. This article concerns the Putin administration’s approach to history regarding the event. Generally speaking, Putin’s approach to history aims to use historical knowledge as a vehicle for the promotion of national unity, following the long period of disruption and decline after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It is ...
    • In the northern periphery of Russia abroad. The Norwegian destiny of Anatol Ye. Heintz (1898–1975), palaeontologist and native of St Petersburg 

      Nielsen, Jens Petter; Tevlina, Victoria V. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-13)
      This article provides an exposé of the life and work of Anatoliy Yevgenyevich Geynts, in Norway known as Anatol Heintz. Heintz was born and raised in St Petersburg, became a Russian refugee after the revolutionary events in Russia in 1917–1918, and ended up in Norway with his family. Later Heintz became renowned in the world of science as a Professor, Academician, and one of the founding fathers ...
    • Mikhail Konstantinovich Sidorov and the role of Norwegians in the opening up of the Northern Sea Route to Siberia (Michail Konstantinovich Sidorov i rolij norvezesev v osvoenii Severnogo Morskogo Putii) 

      Nielsen, Jens Petter; Tevlina, Victoria V. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-28)
      In this article the authors examine the activity of the Russian public figure, the goldmining entrepreneur and employer M.K. Sidorov and his relationship with Norwegian shipowners and marine mammal hunters, engaged in sealing and walrus hunting in the area around Novaya Zemlya and in the Kara Sea. In the 1860s and 1870s M.K. Sidorov tried to carry through a largescale project for the opening up of ...
    • The Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Kremlin's Policy of Remembrance 

      Nielsen, Jens Petter (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)
      The first time I visited the Lenin Mausoleum was on an autumn day in 1971. Leaves blew over Red Square, and down in the sarcophagus Lenin was lying in dim illumination, immaculately dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and a red necktie. Despite his attire he made a dismal impression with his yellow, parchment-like skin. 20 years later Soviet society dissolved, without Lenin being offered a decent ...
    • Vojennyj dnevnik M.I.Starostina. 1941-1945 gg. 

      Nielsen, Jens Petter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This article seeks to shed light on the diary of Maksim Ivanovich Starostin (1902–1948), First Secretary of the Murmansk Provisional Committee of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Murmansk Defense Committee, and written during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). As a colonel and later major-general, Starostin was a member of the Military Council of the Soviet Northern Fleet and the Military ...