| |
I was born
and brought up in Russia, actually the Soviet Union at that time. I received
my degrees in Russia before I immigrated to
the USA. You will see from this CV that I defended two dissertations.
The first one, on Russian Imperial history of the late 19th –early
20th century, is known as “candidate” (Kandidat Nauk). The
candidate dissertation is roughly considered to be an analogue of the
American Ph.D. In 1998 I defended my second dissertation, this time on
the social and economic history of Stalinism. This type of dissertation,
known in Russia as the doctoral dissertation (Doktor nauk), has higher
requirements than the American Ph.D dissertation - one has to have books
already published and a school of students in order to be allowed to
defend it.
EDUCATION:
- 1998 Doctoral Dissertation (Doktor nauk): Centralized Distribution
and the Market: The Problem of Supply for the Population of the USSR
during the First Five-Year Plans, 1928-1941. Moscow State University.
- 1987 Candidate Dissertation (Kandidat nauk): The Social-Economic Structure
of the Peasant Economy in the Central Industrial Region of Russia at
the End of the 19th - Beginning of the 20th Centuries: A Quantitative
Analysis of Zemstvo Statistics. Moscow State University.
- 1981 M.A. in History, Moscow State University. Thesis: Peasant Land
Petitions of the Second Half of the 19th Century as a Historical Source
on Peasant Mentality
RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
- Present Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Columbia
- 2003- 2005 Assistant Professor, Missouri State University, Springfield
- 2001-02 Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, OH
- 2000-01 Post Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard
University
- 1991- Senior Research Associate, Institute of Russian History,
- 2003 Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
- 1999, 1996 Visiting Scholar, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme,
Paris, France
- 1997 Visiting Lecturer, Donaueschingen Academy, Germany. On the invitation
of the Council of Europe
- 1995-96 Visiting Fulbright Lecturer, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, USA
- 1993-94 Visiting Scholar, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies,
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., USA
- 1993 Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, USA
- 1988-90 Junior Research Fellow, Moscow State University
FELLOWSHIPS:
- 2005 National Endowment for the Humanities
- 2004 Missouri State University Faculty Research Grant
- 2004 Missouri State University Summer Faculty Fellowship Grant
- 2000-01 Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University
- 1999, 1996 Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France
- 1995-96 Fulbright, USA
- 1993-94 Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, USA
- 1993 International Research and Exchange Board, IREX, USA
AWARDS:
- 2004 College of Humanities and Public Affairs Award for Excellence
in Research
- 2004 College of Humanities and Public Affairs Grant Writing Competition
Award
LANGUAGES:
Russian - native, English - excellent, French - good
PUBLICATIONS:
*** in English; ** in French, * in Italian, others are in Russian.
BOOKS:
- 2001 ***OUR DAILY BREAD: SOCIALIST DISTRIBUTION AND THE ART OF SURVIVAL
IN STALIN’S RUSSIA, 1927-1941. Armonk, New York & London,
England: M.E. Sharpe.
This is an abridged and edited version of a work published in Moscow
in 1998 by ROSSPEN under the title Za fasadom “Stalinskogo izobilia”:
Raspredelenie i rynok v snabzhenii naselenia v gody industrializatsii,
1927-1941.
- 1993 HIERARCHY OF CONSUMPTION. LIFE UNDER THE STALINIST RATIONING
SYSTEM. 1928-1935. Moscow: Moscow Open State University Press
SELECTED ARTICLES:
Russia in the 20th century:
- 2005
* “Consumption
under Socialism," in Silvio Pons,
et al. ed., Dictionary of Communism. Turin.
- 2004
Soviet Everyday Life: A Habit of Adventure, A Custom of Risk,
1930s (Torgsin and the Secret Police). In: Otechestvennaia
Istoria, no.2
- 2002 ***Economic
Disobedience Under Stalin. In: Lynne Viola, ed., Contending With
Stalinism: Soviet Power and
Popular
Resistance in the 1930s. Cornell
University Press.
- 2001 **L’Opposition
Entre Societe et Pouvoir Pendant la Crise d’Approvisionnement
de 1939- 1941. In: Le Mouvement Social , Juillet-Septembre,
# 196
- 2000 **De
l’Or Pour l’Industrialisation
(La vente d’objets
d’art a la France par l’URSS pendant
la periode des plans quinquennaux de Stalin). In:
Cahiers
du Monde Russe,
41/1,
Janvier
-Mars
- 2000 ***The
Role of Women in Stalin’s
Russia; Women and Propaganda: Image and Reality;
The Role of the Historian in Europe Today. In:
The teaching pack “The History of Women in Europe
in the XXth Century”,
The Council of Europe project “Learning and
Teaching about the History of Europe in the XXth
century”
- 2000 “Shadow
Economy” in
Stalin’s Russia,
Part II. In: Social History
- 1999 “Shadow
Economy” in Stalin’s Russia,
Part I. In: Social History
- 1999 Stalinist
Economy of Rationing. In: Stalinism in the Russian
Province: The Smolensk Archival
Documents As Read
by Western and Russian Historians.
Smolensk
- 1999 USSR
at the End of the 1920’s – Early
1930’s:
Chronicle of Famine. In: Istoriia, no.
20
- 1998 **Une
Hierarchie de la Pauvrete. Approvisionnement d'Etat et Stratification
Sociale en URSS
Pendant la Periode de Rationnement,
1931—1935.
In: Cahiers du Monde Russe. Vol. 39,
n. 1-2, Janvier – Juin
- 1998 War
Communism. New Economic Policy. Second
and Third Five Year Plans. Results
of Industrialization.
Red Intelligentsia.
Foreigners
in the USSR in the 1930s. Grain Procurement
Plans and other essays. In: History
of Russia and Its
Neighbors.
XX Century.
Encyclopedia.
Avanta+
- 1998 From
the World Experience of Rationing. In: Istoriia, no. 34
- 1998 Legend
of the Sack with Bread: Food Crisis of 1936/37. In: Otechestvennaya
Istoriia, no.2
- 1998 Essay
on the Material Life of the Soviet Elite (1930’s).
In: Istoriia, no. 26
- 1998 Supply
Crises During the Stalin’s Plenty. In:
Istoriia, no. 4
- 1997 Send
Dollars for Torgsin! In: Rodina, no. 11
- 1997 People
During First Five Year Plans: Ways to Survive.
In: Istoriia,
no. 19
- 1997 Cost
of the “Big
Leap Forward”:
Supply Crises and Consumption
During Five Year Plans.
In: Soviet Society:
Creation, Development,
Historical Final. Vol.
1, part 4. Moscow: RGGU
- 1996
People’s Letters
About the 1939-1941
Supply Crisis. In:
Voprosi Istorii,
no.1
- 1995 People
and Power in the 1939-41
Supply
Crisis.
In:
Otechestvennaya Istoriia,
no. 3
- 1995 Behind
the Mirror Door of Torgsin.
In: Otechestvennaya
Istoriia,
no.
2
- 1993 ***An
Application of the Statistical
Package "Clams" (An
analysis of Central
Supply Policy
Under the Rationing
System
of 1928/29-1935).
In: History and
Computing in
Eastern Europe.
Gottingen
(with G.A.
Satarov)
- 1993
Development
of the System
of Centralized
Supply at
the End of
the 1920’s
- Beginning
of the 1930’s
(On the Archival
Materials of
the People’s
Commissariat
of Supply).
In: Computer
and
Mathematical
Methods in
Historical
Research. Moscow:
Academy
of Sciences
- 1992
The USSR
at the End
of the
1920s -
Beginning
of the 1930s:
Trade?
Distribution!
(On the Establishment
of the
Administrative
System in
Trade). In:
Otechestvennaya
Istoriia,
no.5
- 1992 Demographic
Processes
and Centralized
Distribution
of Foodstuffs
in 1933
(Use of
the Data Base
on
Trade
and
Demographic
Statistics).
In: Russia
and the
USA on the
Turn of
the Century
(Socio-Economic
Modeling).
Moscow:
Nauka
- 1992 ***The
Victims
of the
Famine
of 1933:
How Many?
(An Analysis
of Demographic
Statistics
of the
Central
State
Archive of the
National
Economy
of the
USSR).
In: Russian
Studies
in History,
fall,
1992. Vol. 31,
no.
2
- 1992
***Soviet
Workers
and
Rationing Norms,
1928-1935:
Real
or
Illusory Privilege?
In:
Soviet and
Post-Soviet
Review.
Vol.19,
Nos.
1-3
- 1991
The Victims
of
the
1933
Famine:
What
is
their
Number?
(Analysis
of
Demographic
Statistics).
In:
History
of
the
USSR,
no.
5
- 1989
Fatal Inheritance
(From the
Soviet Trade
History of
the 1930s).
In: Soviet
Trade, no.
8
Imperial Russia:
- 1991
The Evolution of the Peasant Economic Structure Under the Influence
of Market Development. In: Computer and Mathematical Methods
in Historical Research, vol. 1. Moscow: Institute of History,
Academy of Sciences
- 1991 ***The Evolution of the Peasant Economy in the Industrial Center
of Russia at the End of the 19th - Beginning of the 20th Centuries
(According to Zemstvo Statistical Data). In: Quantum and Historical
Social Research/Historisch Sozialforschung. The Official Journal of
Interquant, vol. 16, no. 2
- 1990 New Aspects of Application of Statistic Methods to Study the Agrarian
Russian History. In: Perestroika v Istoricheskoi Nauke I Problemy Istochnikovedenia.
Kiev: Kiev State University (with G.A. Satarov)
- 1989 Peasant Economy of the Central Industrial Region (Quantitative
Analysis of Zemstvo Statistics). In: Matematicheskie Metody v Istoriko-Tipologicheskikh
Issledovaniyakh. Moscow: Nauka
- 1989 Influence of the Market Economy on the Structural Evolution of
Peasant Households in Russia at the End of the 19th - Beginning of
the 20th Centuries. In: Vzaimosvyazi Goroda i Derevni v Ikh Istoricheskom
Razvitii. Moscow: Academy of Sciences
- 1987 Social and Economic Structure of the Peasant Economy of the Central
Industrial Region. In: Kompleksnye Metody v Istoricheskikh Issledovaniyakh.
Moscow: Institute of History, Academy of Sciences
- 1987 Zemstvo Statistics of 1880-1913: Methods of Analysis in Russian
and Soviet Historiography. In: Istoriograficheskie I Istochnikovedcheskie
Problemy Istorii Narodov SSSR. Moscow: Moscow State University
- 1987 Peasant Letters as a Source to Study Land Relations in Russia
at the End of the 19th - Beginning of the 20th Centuries. In: Sotsialnye
I Economicheskie Problemy Istorii Narodov SSSR. Moscow: Moscow State
University
- 1986
Documents of Peasant Administration in Post-Reform Russia. In:
Krestianstvo Tsentral’nogo
Promyshlennogo Raiona. Kalinin: Kalinin State
University
PRESENTATIONS:
In 1993-2005 period I gave presentations on my research at the Russian
and East-European Centers of Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Drury,
Georgia at Athens, Georgetown, Harvard, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Indiana, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Princeton, Stanford, Pittsburgh
Universities, Boston College, Library of Congress, the Kennan Institute
for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center; University of
Aberdeen (Great Britain); University of Helsinki (Finland); University
of Toronto (Canada).
During this period of time I also took part in major historical conferences
and seminars in Germany, Great Britain, Finland, France, Poland, Russia,
and the United States of America.
|
