Biography

Since April 2025, Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez has been an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) at NOVA University Lisbon, as part of the ERC project he leads as Principal Investigator, ‘STEXEU — The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship: States of Exception and Authoritarianism in Europe, 1900-39.’ Previously, between July 2021 and March 2025, he was a Junior Researcher at the IHC with a CEEC-FCT contract, where he developed a project on the history of far-right trade unions in Southern Europe in the interwar period.

Before joining the IHC, he worked at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he developed a postdoctoral project on the links between the Mexican and Russian revolutions. In 2019, he completed his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence with a thesis on the impact of the Russian Revolution on the Spanish anarchist movement. He completed his master’s degree at the University of Oxford and his bachelor’s degree at University College London.

His work has been published in journals such as Past & Present, International Review of Social History, European History Quarterly, and Slavic Review. He has taught Russian and Soviet history as a visiting professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, the University of Barcelona, and the Colegio de México.

Research fields

• Labour history
• Modern Spain
• Trade unions
• Far right

Selected publications

• Zoffmann Rodriguez, Arturo & Juan Cristóbal Marinello Bonnefoy. “A Proletarian Turf War: The Rise and Fall of Barcelona’s Sindicatos Libres, 1919–1923,” International Review of Social History 66 (2021): 243-271. [link]
• Zoffmann-Rodriguez, Arturo. “Anarcho-syndicalism and the Russian Revolution: Towards a political explanation of a fleeting romance, 1917–22,” Revolutionary Russia 31 (2018): 226-246. [link]
• Zoffmann Rodriguez, Arturo. “‘Off to Moscow with No Passports and No Money’: The 1921 Spanish Syndicalist Delegation to Russia,” European History Quarterly 48 (2018): 435-461. [link]🔓
• Zoffmann Rodriguez, Arturo. “Lenin in Barcelona: the Russian Revolution and the Spanish trienio bolchevista, 1917–1920,” Slavic Review 76 (2017): 629-636. [link]

Main projects

• Coordinator of the project ‘STEXEU — The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship: States of Exception and Authoritarianism in Europe, 1900-39‘ — hosted by the IHC and funded by the European Research Institute (Starting Grant, Grant agreement ID: 101163723 ). 2025-2030 (link)
• Individual project ‘The Sindicatos Libres of Barcelona and the proletarian road to fascism in Spain, Italy, Portugal, and France, 1900-39′ — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2020.01776.CEECIND). 2021-2025