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CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Abbott Gleason Professor History 2. 30 CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Abbott Gleason Professor History 2. 30 John Street, Providence, RI 02906 3. BA, Harvard College, 1961 MA, ad eundum, Brown University, 1973 Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969 Dissertation topic: "European and Muscovite: A Life of Ivan Kireevsky" 4. Teaching Fellowships, Harvard University, 1964-68 Assistant Professor of History, Brown University, 1968-73 Associate Professor of History, Brown University, 1973-78 Professor of History, Brown University, 1978-- Associate of the Russian Research Center (Davis Center for Advanced Russian Studies), Harvard University, 1968-79, 1982--1998 Secretary (Director), Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, February 1, 1980-June 1, 1982 Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, Brown University, 1993--. Emeritus 2005 President, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1995-96 Director, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 1999-2000 Director Watson Institute, for University Relations and Special Projects, 2000-2003 Senior Fellow, Watson Institute, 2003- Professor of Slavic Language and Literature, 2003-- 5. Publications Historiographical review: B. P. Koz'min, "Iz istorii revoliutsionnoi mysli v Rossii," Kritika, Winter, 1965. "The Emigration and Apostasy of Lev Tikhomirov," Slavic Review, September, 1967. European and Muscovite: Ivan Kireevsky and the Origins of Slavophilism, Harvard University Press, 1972. "Pavel Svin'in," in Marc Pachter, ed., Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1976, pp. 12-21. "Solzhenitsyn and the Slavophiles," Yale Review, Autumn, 1975. "Peanut Butter," Country Journal, July 1975, reprinted in The Providence Journal, September 7, 1975. "Boris Chicherin" "Nikolai Grech" "Ivan Kireevsky" "Russian and Soviet Studies in the United States" Articles in The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s, Viking Press, 1980. Paperback edition, University of Chicago Press, 1983. (Portions reprinted in James Miller, ed., The 1800s, Greenhaven Press, 2001.) "Dean Stambaugh" in Smith Hempstone, ed., An Illustrated History of St. Albans School, Glastonbury Press, 1981. "'Totalitarianism' in 1984", Russian Review, Vol. 43, No. 2 (1984), pp. 145-160. "Ivan Aksakov" "Konstantin Aksakov" "Nihilism" "Ivan Kireevsky" "Petr Kireevsky" "Moskvitianin" "Mikhail Pogodin" "Slavophilism" "Westernism" Articles in Victor Terras, ed., The Handbook of Russian Literature, Yale University Press, 1985 Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution, Co-Editor with Peter Kenez and Richard Stites, Indiana University Press, 1985. Paperback edition, 1989. Shared Destiny: Soviet-American Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan, Co-Editor with Mark Garrison, Beacon Press, 1985. Paperback edition, 1987. "The Impact of US-Soviet Cultural Differences on the Summit", Providence Journal, October 16, 1985, reprinted in the Baltimore Sun, November 17, 1985. "Observers and Observed: The Heisenberg Syndrome" (with Michael Oksenberg and Allen Kassof), AAASS Newsletter, Vol. 26, No. 4, September, 1986, pp. 7-8. "Glasnost' in Russian History", SOVSET NEWS, January 27, 1987. "Other Visitors, Other Westernizers", Baltimore Sun, December 6, 1987. "Clash of American and Soviet Values Deeply Rooted in Historical Differences", Atlanta Constitution, January 8, 1988. "Letter from Armenia: Old Wounds and New Battles", Boston Globe, December 4, 1988. "The Great Reforms and the Historians since Stalin," Russian History/ Histoire Russe, vol. 17, No. 3 (Fall 1990), pp. 281-96. Reprinted in Larisa Zakharova (Moscow University) John Bushnell (North- western) and Ben Eklof (Indiana), Eds., Velikie reformy v Rossii, 1856-1874, simultaneous editions in Russian (Moscow University Press, 1992, and Indiana University Press, 1994). American edition entitled Russia's Great Reforms 1855-1881, ed. Eklof, Bushnell, Zakharova. "Reflections on Orwell, Totalitarianism and 1984" in Robert S. Peck, ed., To Govern A Changing Society: Constitutionalism and the Challenge of New Technology, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, pp. 11-19. "The Terms of Russian Social History" in Edith Clowes, Kas- sow and West, eds., Between Tsar and People: The Search for a Public Consciousness in Late Imperial Russia, Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 15-27. "Tumult Lies Ahead as the Soviet Union Crumbles", San Francisco Chronicle, April 3, 1991 (title chosen by them). "Republic of Humbug: The Russian Nativist Critique of the United States,", The American Quarterly, March 1992, pp. 1-23. Summarized ("Research Notes") in The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 29, 1992, p. A10 and in The Wilson Quarterly ("Russian Nightmare"), Summer, 1992, pp. 149-150. "The Meaning of 1917," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 270, No. 5, November, 1992, pp. 30-34. "We'll Miss You, Eddie," The Providence Journal, March 10, 1993, p. A9. "Never Again? Intervene in Bosnia or Cut the Clichés", The Providence Journal, April 17, 1993. "Pre-Soviet Russia and Democracy", "Alexander Kerensky" in Seymour M. Lipset, Ed., The Encyclopedia of Democracy, Congressional Quarterly Books, Washington D.C., 1995. "A Peculiar Capitalism Evolves in Russia," The Providence Journal, September 11, 1994. Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War, New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. A Nota Bene Selection, The Chronicle of Higher Education. "Forward: Karl Dietrich Bracher" in Karl-Dietrich Bracher, Turning Points in Modern Times: Essays on German and European History, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1995. "The Rhetoric of Totalitarianism," in Lieberman, Sochor, Powell and Terry, eds., The Soviet Empire Reconsidered, Westview Press, 1995. "Russia/Soviet Union", The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, Oxford University Press, 1997. "Totalitarianism and the Cold War: A Personal View," NewsNet. The Newsletter of the AAASS, V. 35, No. 4, Sept., 1995, pp. 1-3. "The Delegitimation of Government," The Providence Journal, December 26, 1995, George St. Journal and reprinted elsewhere. "'Russian Totalitarianism'...Again?", German Politics and Society, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 17-30. "The Ideological Structures of Modern Russian Culture", Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 103-124. "Russia's View of NATO Expansion," Providence Journal, April 1, 1997 (and reprinted elsewhere) "Teaching Totalitarianism," Perspectives (American Historical Association) (April, 1997). "Interpreting the Soviet Union: the First Phase," (presidential address, AAASS), NewsNet, Jan., 1997. "Franco Venturi's Il populismo russo in the English-speaking world", Il coraggio della ragione. Franco Venturi intelettuale e storico cosmopolita, Einaudi Foundation, Turin, 1998. "Russian Decembrist Revolt," Jack A. Goldstone, ed.,The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998. "Refighting the Last War," Providence Journal, April 16, 1998, p. B7 "Andrzej Walicki," Archiwum Historii Filozofii I Mysli Spolecznej, Vol 44, Warsaw, 1999, pp. 5-9. Nikita Khrushchev: Fresh Perspectives on the Last Communist, edited with William Taubman and Sergei Khrushchev, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000. "Totalitarianism," in Joel Krieger, ed., The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (second edition), New York, Oxford, 2001. "The Spiritual Landscape of Mikhail Nesterov," Ecumene, Summer, 2000. "The Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia: Western Policy and Response," in Robert Pynsent, ed., The Phoney Peace: Power and Culture in Central Europe, 1945-1949, SSES Occasional Paper # 46, pp. 182-193, SSES, University College, London, 2000. The Art of the Russian North (with Anne Odom, William Brumfield and Alison Hilton, Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C., 2001. "Bush and U.S.-Russian Relations," Providence Journal, April 7, 2001. "Where Academics Feared to Tread: Scholarly Advice on the Transition," Problems of Post-Communism, May-June, 2001, pp. 45-48. "Brown's Growing Global Studies," Providence Journal, March 10, 2002. "Adam Ulam as Historian," Kennan Institute Occasional Paper #282, June, 2002. "Ivan Kireevsky", "Aleksei Khomiakov, "Ivan Aksakov", "Konstantin Aksakov", "Slavophilism", "Panslavism", "Totalitarianism", The Encyclopedia of Russian History, Thompson-Gale, 2003. "U.S. War Against Liberalism," Providence Journal, April 6, 2003. "In Response to 'Discredited Beliefs,'", Kritika, Vol. 4, No. 2 Spring, 2003), pp. 379-381. "The Hard Road to Fascism," Boston Review, Summer, 2003. "Budgeting for Empire," Providence Journal, July 23, 2003 Three artists, Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, 2004; Ilia Chasnik; Sergei Chekhonin; Efim Sheptsov. “Anticommunismo,” “Hannah Arendt,” “Totalitarismo”, “Compagni di Strada,” in Robert Service and Silvio Pons, Dizionario del Communismo (forthcoming in 2006). Lectures and Papers "Some Notes on Intellectuals and 'Western Rationalism,'" presented at the Central Slavic Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, November, 1971. "1861-62: A Turning Point in Nineteenth-Century Russian Radicalism," Lecture delivered at the Russian and East European Institute, the University of Indiana, Bloomington, April 2, 1975. "The Anti-Modernism of Solzhenitsyn," presented at the American Historical Association meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, December 30, 1975. 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