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Jeffrey Peter Brooks Department of History Home Address: 2811 St Jeffrey Peter Brooks Department of History Home address: 2811 St. Paul St. The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 3400 North Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218 Telephone: 410-516-7575 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] 1/10/2021 Education: Ph.D. (History), Stanford University, 1972 University of Besancon, 1962-63 B.A. (History), Antioch College, 1965 Employment: Professor, Department of History, ohns Hopkins University, 1990 – Visiting Professor University of Dar es Salaam, fall semester, 2004 Associate Professor, History, University of Minnesota, 1987--93. Associate Professor, Russian History, University of Chicago, 1984-1987. Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 1978-84. Assistant Professor, Cornell College, 1973-78. Fellowships and Awards: Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in Arts and Sciences, 2004. Woodrow Wilson Center, Kennan Institute, Fellow 1999-2000 National Council for Soviet and East European Research February 1988- January 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship, July 1987-February 1988 IREX Academy Exchange, May-August 1985 National Council for Soviet and East European Research, January-December,1984 IREX Moscow & Fulbright-Hays, September 1979-March 1980 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1977-78 NEH Summer Seminar on Literary Modernism, 1976 IREX, Moscow, 8/73-6/74 / NDFL, USSR and Helsinki, 1970-71 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Helsinki, 1969-70 National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, 1966-68 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1965-66 Dissertation: "Literature, Liberalism, and the Idea of Culture: Russia, 1900-1910," Stanford University, 1972. Publications: Books The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks (Cambridge Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2019). 1 Reviews Choice (June, 2020) Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Review) No. 164 (4/2020), pp. 363-371 (Marina Zagidullina, “Codes of Firebirds and Foxes in Russian Culture”) LA Review of Book 2 September 2020, Caryl Emerson, “A Hope Machine: On Jefffrey Brooks’s “The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks.” Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State: A Brief History with Documents. Co- authored with Georgiy Chernyavskiy. (Bedford/St. Martin, 2006) 176 pp. Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2000, paperback edition 2001), 319 pp. When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 (Princeton University Press, 1985; paperback edition, 1988, 1993), 475 pp. Vucinich Prize of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for best book by an American in 1985; Italian edition 1992. Reprinted with a new introduction by Northwestern University Press, 2003). Articles and Book Chapters “The Press and the Public Adjust to a New Normal, 1918-1935” in Reading Russia: A History of Reading in Modern Russia, eds. Damiano Rebecchini and Raffaela Vassena, in the series “Di/Segni” of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Università degli Studi di Milano, 2020, 43-81. “Readers and Reading during Russia’s Literacy Transition, 1850-1950: How Readers Shaped a Great Literature,” in The Edinburgh History of Reading, Volume 2: Common and Subversive Readers, eds. Mary Hammond and Jonathan Rose (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 137-156. “Gothic Traditions in Russian and Early Soviet Culture,” in Russian Literature (Amsterdam) special issue, May-June 2019, pp.11-32. “Laughing with the Count: Humor in War and Peace and Beyond,” in Inessa Medzhibovskaya, ed., Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century (Evanston, Il.: Northwestern University Press, 2018), 135-57. Jeffrey Brooks and Boris Dralyuk, "Parahistory: History at Play in Russia and Beyond,” The Slavic Review Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 77-98 2 “The Young Chekhov: Reader and Writer of Popular Realism,” in Reading in Russia. Practices of Reading and Literary Communication, 1760-1930, D. Rebecchini, R. Vassena, eds., (Milan, 2014), 201-18. Also available at: http://eng.lingue.unimi.it/extfiles/unimidire/182801/attachment/009- rebecchini-vassena.pdf “The Distinctiveness of Soviet Culture,” with Sergei Zhuk, in Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History (Oxford University Press, 2014), 48 pages. Online link: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/97801992367 01.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199236701-e-025?rskey=BFJo8h&result=3 “Marvelous Destruction: The Left-Leaning Satirical Magazines of 1905-1907,” in Experiment (annual journal devoted to Russian Culture of the early 20th century) Volume 19, Issue 1 (2013), 24-62. “The Moral Self in Russia’s Literary and Visual Cultures (1861-1955),” The Space of the Book: Print Culture in the Russian Social Imagination, Miranda Remnek ed., (University of Toronto Press, 2011), 201-30. "Neozhidannyi Tolstoi: Lev i medved’: Iumor v Voine i mire” (The Unexpected Tolstoi: Lev and the Bear) in Novoe Literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Observer) No. 109 (summer, 2011), 151-71. Online version with no pictures: (http://www.nlobooks.ru/rus/magazines/nlo/196/2380/2392/) “The Literature of the Lubok.” Chapter from When Russia Learned to Read, 59-108, reprinted in The History of the Book in the West: 1800-1914: Vol. IV, eds. Stephen Colclough and Alexis Weedon (Ashgate Publishing, 2010). “Chekhov, Tolstoy, and the Illustrated Press in the 1890s,” Cultural and Social History (Journal of the Social History Society), Vol. 78, No. 2 (2010), 213-232. “The Russian Nation Imagined: The Peoples of Russia as Seen in Popular Imagery, 1860s-1890s,” The Journal of Social History Vol. 43, No. 3(2010), 535-557. “How a Soldier Saved Peter I: A Kudzu Vine of Russia’s Popular Fiction” in Russian History/ Histoire Russe Vol. 35 Part 2 (summer, 2008), 1-19. “Totalitarianism Revisited” The Review of Politics, (Volume 68, No. 2, 2006), 1-11. “ (People who do not read newspapers should be morally killed on the spot,” Людей, которые не читают газет, надо морально убивать на месте” 3 in Sovetskaia vlast' i media (Soviet power and the media) St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, St. Petersburg, 2006, 228-41. “Stalin’s Ghost: Cold War Culture and U.S.-Soviet Relations,” in The Cold War After Stalin’s Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? eds. Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood, (Rowman and Littlefield, Harvard Cold War Series, 2006). 115-36. “How Tolstoevskii Pleased Readers and Rewrote a Russian Myth,” Slavic Review (fall, 2005), 538-59. “Declassifying a “Classic” (forum on N. S. Timasheff, The Great Retreat), Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 5, 4(Fall, 2004), 709-21. “Stalin’s Politics of Obligation,” in special issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Vol. 4, No.1 (Summer 2003), 47-68 and also in Harold Shukman, ed., Redefining Stalinism (London: Frank Cass, 2003). “Still Above Ground,” review essay on Olga Velikanova, “Public Perception of the Lenin Cult Based on Archival Materials (Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter, 2001), Kritika, (Winter, 2003), 253-59. “Il romanzo popolare: dalle storie di briganti al realismo socialista” (The Popular Novel in Russia: from Bandit Tales to Socialist Realism) in Franco Moretti, ed., Il romanzo, (volume II, Le fome), Einaudi, Torino 2002, 447-469. “Sovremennaia Amerikanskaia istoriografiia o krest’ianstve poreformennoi Rossii,” (Contemporary American historiography about the peasantry in post-reform Russia), with Sergei Zhuk, Voprosy istorii, No. 1 (winter 2001), 151-59. “Could the Post-Communist Transition Have Begun in 1953?” Occasional Paper, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, September 2001, 1- 42. "Two Tandem Revolutions in Russian Culture: The Modern and the Pop," Common Knowledge, (Winter, 1998), 139-55. "The Early Soviet Success Story," Vol. 31, No. 4 (spring, 1998), Journal of Popular Culture, 145-57 "Pravda Goes to War," in The Heart of War: Soviet Culture and Entertainment, 1941-45 (Indiana University Press, 1995), Richard Stites ed., 9-27, 156-73. “Socialist Realism in Pravda: Read All About it,” Slavic Review vol. 53, no. 4 (winter, 1994), 973-991. 4 "Pravda and the Language of Power in Soviet Russia, 1917-28," in Media and Revolution (University of Kentucky Press, 1994), ed. Jeremy Popkin. "Official Xenophobia and Popular Cosmopolitanism in Early Soviet Russia," American Historical Review, (12/92), 1431-48. “Gramotnost’ i pechat’ v Rossii, 1861-1928,” in Chtenie v dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, ed. A. I. Reitblat (Moscow, 1992), 82-99. "Revolutionary Lives: Public Identities in Pravda during the 1920s," New Directions in Soviet History, ed. Stephen White, (Cambridge University Press, 1991), 27-40. "Russian Cinema and Public Discourse, 1900-1930, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 11: 2 (1991), 141-48. "The Press and Its Message: Images of America in the 1920s and 1930s," in Russia in the Era of NEP (Indiana University Press, 1991), 231-53. "Isolationism and Soviet Public Discourse in the 1920s and early 1930s," Final report to the National Council for Soviet and East European Research (2/90), 1-72. "Popular and Public Values in the Soviet Press, 1921-28," Slavic Review (Spring 1989): 16-35. "Competing Modes of Popular Discourse: Individualism and Class Consciousness in the Russian Print Media, 1880-1928," in Culture et Revolution, M. Ferro and S. Fitzpatrick, eds., de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1989): 71-81. "Literacy and the Print Media in Russia," Communication 11.1 special issue on "The History of Literacy"),
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