CHARTERS WYNN Department of History 128 Inner Campus Dr. The University of Texas at Austin 512-475-7234 Austin, Texas 78712 [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. in History, Stanford University, 1987 Field: Modern Russia Minor Field: Modern Europe Supporting Field: Developmental Economics M.A. in History, Stanford University, 1979 B.A. with Double Honors in History; Modern Society and Social Thought University of California, Santa Cruz, 1976 EMPLOYMENT University of Texas at Austin Associate Professor, from 1995 Assistant Professor, 1990-1994 Lafayette College Assistant Professor, 1989-1990 Rice University Lecturer, 1988-1989 University of Houston, Clear Lake Visiting Assistant Professor, 1986-1988 Stanford University Instructor, 1984; Teaching Assistant, 1979, 1981, 1985 BOOK Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass-Dnepr Bend in Late Imperial Russia, 1870-1905 (Princeton University Press, 1992) BOOK AWARD Herbert Baxter Adams Prize Best First Book in European History, 1993 American Historical Association CURRENT BOOK PROJECT: “The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936.” This first study of the Bolsheviks' leading trade unionist and one true proletarian on the Politburo during the 1920s will examine Tomsky's rise to power, his central role in the struggles over social and economic policy, political power and foreign affairs, during the transition from Tsarism to Stalinism, as well as all the torment the Party inflicted on him after he fell out of favor. The manuscript has been submitted to Brill’s Historical Materialism Series, where it is under contract. 1 1 PUBLISHED ARTICLES ON CURRENT PROJECT “NEP’s Last Stand: Mikhail Tomsky and the Eighth Trade Union Congress,” Canadian- American Slavic Studies (Vol. 53: 1-2, July 2019), 149-175. “Getting Together then Falling Apart: Tomsky and British Trade Unionists during NEP,” Russian Review (Vol. 73: 4, October 2014), 571-595. “Young Tomsky: The Making of a Working-Class Bolshevik Leader,” Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 25: 2, December 2012), 119-140. “The ‘Right Opposition’ and the ‘Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev Affair’” in The “Lost” Politburo Stenograms: From Collective Rule to Stalin’s Dictatorship, eds. Paul Gregory and Norman Naimark (Yale University Press, 2008), 97-117. FRANK DENIUS NORMANDY SCHOLAR PROGRAM Director, 2010 – Faculty Member, 2001 – RECOGNITION OF TEACHING EXCELLENCE 2014 University-Wide Teaching Awards Committee 2011 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award 2008 Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship 2008 UT Department of History Teaching Excellence Award 2006 Eyes of Texas Excellence Award 2002 Texas Blazers Faculty Appreciation Award JOURNAL BOOK REVIEW EDITOR NEP-Era Journal, 2014-2017 CONFERENCE ORGANIZER New Approaches to Opposition to Stalin University of Texas at Austin, February 27, 2016 CONFERENCE PAPERS “The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin” XLVI Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, January 2019 2 2 “Mikhail Tomsky: A Great Russian Chauvinist?” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Charlotte, NC, March 2018 “Exiled to Tashkent: Mikhail Tomsky as Head of the Turkestan Commission in 1921” XLV Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, January 2018 “The Right Opposition: Mikhail Tomsky and the Trade Union Leadership” New Approaches to Opposition to Stalin Conference University of Texas at Austin, February 27, 2016 “Tormenting an Old Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky” XLII Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, January 2016 “Tomsky Outcast, 1930-1936” Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies Convention Philadelphia, November 2015 “Mikhail Tomsky and the Trade Union Controversy, 1919-1921” XLI Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, January 2015 “Mikhail Tomsky and the ‘Right Deviationists’” XL Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, January 2014 “NEP’s Last Stand: Tomsky at the Eighth Trade Union Congress” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Boston, November 2013 “Getting Together: Tomsky and British Trade Unionists during NEP” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Washington D.C., November 2011 “Balancing Act: Mikhail Tomsky as Politburo Member and Trade Union Leader” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Boston, November 2009 “Pogroms in Ukraine” Ukrainian Encounter Initiative Meeting Salzburg, Austria, June 2009 3 3 “Bolsheviks before October: Young Tomsky” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Philadelphia, November 2008 “Tomsky and the Politburo Stenograms” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies New Orleans, November 2007 “Old Bolsheviks in Stalinist Russia: Examining Tomsky’s Suicide” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Salt Lake City, November 2005 “The Making of a ‘Right Deviationist’: Mikhail Tomsky,” Shaping Memory, Shaping Identity in Russian History Stanford University, March 2003 “Between Resistance and Complicity: Mikhail Tomsky, 1928-1936” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Denver, November 2000 “Behind Closed Doors: Resistance to the Stalinist Attack on the Trade Unions” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Boston, November 1996 “Recent Trends in Soviet Historiography” Southwest Association of Slavic Studies San Antonio, February 1995 “The Komsomol versus the Trade Unions: Generational Conflict in Late NEP” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Philadelphia, November 1994 “Unskilled Workers in the 1905 Revolution” American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Corvallis, Oregon, August 1992 “The Crowd in the First Russian Revolution” World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies Harrogate, England, July 1990 “The Bid for Power: The Donbass-Dnepr Bend Labor Movement, December 1905” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Washington D.C., October, 1990 4 4 “Donbass Labor Unrest: General Strikes and Pogroms in the 1905 Revolution” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies New York, November 1984 BOOK REVIEWS Barbara C. Allen, “Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik,” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 53: 1-2 (July 2019) Simon Sebag Montefiore, “Young Stalin,” Slavic Review 69: 4 (Winter 2010) Olga Litvak, “Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry, The Russian Review 68:1 (January 2009) John Lukacs, “June 1941: Hitler and Stalin,” The Historian 70: 4 (Winter 2008) Michael Melancon, “The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State,” Journal of Modern History 80: 2 (June 2008) Leopold Haimson, “Russia’s Revolutionary Experience, 1905-1917,” Journal of Modern History 79: 4 (December 2007) Diane P. Koenker, “Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918- 1930,” Canadian Slavic Papers 48: 3-4 (December 2006) Kevin Murphy, “Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory,” Slavic Review 65: 4 (Winter 2006) Samuel H. Baron, “Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962,” The American Historical Review (October 2002) Laura L. Philips, “Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929,” Slavonica 8:2 (2002) Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii, “Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (November 2002) Kenneth M. Straus, “Factory and Community in Stalin’s Russia: The Making of an Industrial Working Class,” Slavic Review, 58:3 (Fall 1999) Aves, Jonathan, “Workers against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship,” Slavic Review, 57:1 (Spring 1998) 5 5 David L. Hoffmann, “Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1920-1941,” American Historical Review, 101:2 (April 1996) Gennady Shkliarevsky, “Labor in the Russian Revolution: Factory Committees and Trade Unions, 1917-1918,” American Historical Review, 99:4 (October 1994) R.W. Davies, “Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution”; Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 26:1 (January 1992 Aleksandr I. Fenin, “Coal and Politics in Late Imperial Russia,” trans. Alexandre Fediaevsky, ed. Susan P. McCaffray, Slavic Review, 51:4 (Winter 1992) Diane P. Koenker and William G. Rosenberg, “Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917,” Slavic Review, 51:3 (Fall 1992) Diane P. Koenker, William G. Rosenberg, and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds., “Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 22:2 (Autumn 1992) L.V. Badia, “Akademik A. M. Pankratova: istorik rabochego klassa SSSR,” Russian Review, 41:2 (April 1982) FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Institute of Historical Studies Fellow, University of Texas, 2017-2018 Dean’s Fellow, University of Texas, 2004 National Council for Soviet and East European Research Award, 1994-1995 Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Research Scholarship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1992-1993 International Research and Exchanges Board Grant (Russia), 1992-1993 University Research Institute Research Grant, University of Texas, 1992-1993 University Research Institute Summer Research Award, University of Texas, 1992 University of Texas Special Research Grant,