Dina Moyal teaches Soviet and Modern Russian history at Tel Aviv University. She holds an LLB degree from Tel Aviv University and an MA and PhD degrees in history from Stanford University.
Dina's research focuses on social order and political regimes in Modern Europe. Specifically, Dina studies Soviet legal history and culture, and the role of legal mechanisms in realizing social and political goals in Revolutionary Russia. Dina's first project discusses the way Soviet judges, prosecutors and advocates shaped post-Stalinist society and the relations between state and individual under Khrushchev and Brezhnev.
In her new research Dina examines political trials and legal processes, which took place at major transitional moments in Russian/ Soviet history, from the 1917 Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry against Tsarist officials, to the Process of the Communist Party in 1992, following the disintegration of the USSR.
In addition to her research and teaching, Dina is the Program Director of the Israeli Inter-University Partnership in Russian and East European Studies, which is a collaborative project of five Israeli universities (Bar-Ilan, Ben-Gurion, Haifa, the Open University and Tel Aviv University) and is supported by the Council of Higher Education in Israel.
