Academic Specialization

Russian History 

Education

1. Ph.D., History, Harvard, 1969
2. MA., Russian Regional Studies, Harvard, 1962
3. BA., History and Literature, Harvard, 1959

Teaching, Administrative, and Professional Appointments

1. Fullbright Lecturer, Moscow State University, 1996
2. Visiting Associate Professor of History, Harvard University, 1982
3. Editor, Russian Review, 1982-1989
4. Professor of History, Syracuse University, 1995 -
5. Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University, 1976-95
6. Visiting Associate Professor of History, Harvard University, 1982
7. Assistant Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University and Associate of the Russian Institute, 1970-76
8. Instructor and Lecturer in History, Harvard University, 1968-70
9. Teaching Fellow in History and Literature, Harvard, 1966-68
10. Lecturer in History, Brandeis University, 1965-66

Selected and Recent Publications

1. The End of Serfdom: Nobility and Bureaucracy in Russia, 1855-1861, Harvard University Press, 1976.
2. Rebels in the Name of the Tsar, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, reissued 1988.
3. "Kavelin and Russian Liberalism," Slavic Review, XXXII, 1 (1973), pp. 59-78.
4. "The Reforms of the 1860's," N. Heer and S. Baron, eds., Windows on the Russian Past, Columbus, OH, 1977, pp. 89-104.
5. "Peasants and Propagandists in the Russian Movement to the People of l874," Journal of Modern History, vol. 59, no. 3 (September l987), pp. 4l5-438.
6. "Stratification and the Peasant Commune: A Statistical Inquiry" forthcoming in Roger Bartlett, ed., Land, Commune and Peasant Community: Communal Forms in Imperial Russian Society, MacMillan [London], 1988.
7. "The Polarization of Peasant Households in Prerevolutionary Russia: Zemstvo Censuses and Problems of Measurement," forthcoming in Carol S. Leonard and George Grantham, eds., Agrarian Organization in the Century of Industrialization (Series: Research in Economic History), JAI Press, 1988.
8. "Sotsial'nye predstavleniia v dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii," in V. S. Diakin, et al., eds., Reformy ili revoliutsiia? Rossiia 1861-1917. Materialy mezhdunarodnogo kollokviuma istorikov, 1992, pp. 67-69.
9. "The Year of Jubilee," in J. Bushnell, B. Eklof, and L. G. Zakharova, eds., Russia's Great Reforms, Indiana University Press, 1994, pp. 40-57.
10. "Reforms and Political Culture in Prerevolutionary Russia," in T. Taranovsky, ed., Reform in Modern Russian History: Progress or Cycle?, 1995, pp. 125-36
11. "Istoriia mentaliteta v zarubezhnoi istoricheskoi literature," in V. P. Danilov, L. V. Milov, and D. Field, eds. Mentalitet i agrarnoe razvitie Rossii (XIX-XX vv.):..., 1996, pp. 7-21.
12. Edited Work: (with Morton Rothstein), Quantitative Studies in Agarian History, 1993.