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.
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2008, 2010 Andrew W. Mellon Research and Writing Grants, 1983-1985 International Research and Exchanges Board Grant (USSR), 1982-1983 James Birdsall Weter Grant, 1981-1982 Stanford University Fellowship, 1977-1981 Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies Summer Grants, 1978- 1982, 1987
BOOK MANUSCRIPT REFEREE University of Toronto Press, 2011 Cambridge University Press, 1997 Oxford University Press, 1995 Cornell University Press, 1994
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6 ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT REFEREE Revolutionary Russia, 2014 NEP-Era Journal, 2014 Kritika, 2002 Slavic Review, 1990, 1992, 2001 Russian Review, 1994
PROMOTION REVIEWER Texas Tech University, 2014 University of Florida, 2009 University of Virginia, 2004 University of Toronto, 2004 Temple University, 2004
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH Russian State Archive of Social-Political History, Moscow, 2001, 2010 Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Modern History, 1993, 1999 State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow 1993, 2001 Trotsky Archives, Harvard University, 1998 Central State Archive of the October Revolution, Moscow 1982-1983 Central State Historical Archive, Leningrad, 1982-1983 Central State Historical Archive, Kiev, 1983 Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, 1981-1986, 1998, 2009, 2011
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED Travis M. Gray, “Amid the Ruins: The Reconstruction of Smolensk Oblast, 1943-1953,” History Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018
Jennifer Townzen, “If Found, Please Return: Comparative Attitudes of Art Restitution in Russian and the United States,” Liberal Arts Honors Thesis, 2018
Andrew Straw, “Resisting Ethnic Cleansing: Crimean Tatars, Crimea, and the Soviet Union, 1941-1991,” History Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017
Michael Dorman, “Khatyn and the Myth of Genocide in Lukashenko’s Belarus,” Slavic and Eurasian Studies Department, M.A. Thesis, 2017
Emma Steiner, “Their Greatest Need: American and Soviet Housing Initiatives, 1954- 1959,” History Honors Thesis, 2017
Travis Gray, “Savage City: Odessa and the 1905 Pogrom,” History Department, M.A. Thesis, 2014
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Vladyslav Alexander, “Surviving total war in Kherson Region, Ukraine 1941-1945,” Slavic and Eurasian Studies M.A. Thesis, 2013
Thad Thome, “Forging the Implements of War: The Soviet Military Industrial Complex, 1929-1943,” Slavic and Eurasian Studies M.A. Thesis, 2012
Stephen Panico, “Shots Heard Around the World: The Development and Proliferation of Small Arms in the United States and the Soviet Union,” History Honors Thesis, 2012
Claire Sarson, “Framing the Russian Civil War: The Portrayal of Violence in Film, 1930- 1982,” Liberal Arts Honors Thesis, 2011
Julie deGaffenried, “Becoming the Vanguard: Children, the Young Pioneers, and the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War,” History Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009
Wilson Getchell, “The Vanguard Hangs Itself: The Bolshevik Response to Suicide and Hooliganism in the 1920s,” Slavic and Eurasian Studies M.A. Thesis, 2009
Rachel Burkhart, “Soviet Agents and First United Front in China, 1919-1927,” History Honors Thesis, 2009.
John Vargas, “Hungary 1956: Popular Perspectives,” Plan II Thesis, 2009
Dana Abizaid, “Lessons in Central Asian Islamic Resistance: The Basmachi Movement (1918-1931) and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (1991-present),” Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies M. A. Thesis, 2007
Shane Lin, “Washington and Petrograd: American Influence and the Fall of the Russian Provisional Government, History Honors Thesis, 2007
Julie deGaffenried, “The Young Pioneer Organization and the Construction of a Soviet Nation, 1922-1945,” History M.A. Thesis, 2004
Jennifer Sample, “Soviet Construction of the Modern Uzbek Identity: Consolidation and Appropriation,” Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, M.A. 2004
Michael Tunks, “The Roots of the Cold War: Soviet Agitation and Diplomacy in the German Republic,” Plan II Thesis, 2000
Paul Hagenloh, “Police, Crime, and Public Order in Stalin's Russia, 1930-1941,” History Ph.D. Dissertation, 1999
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8 Jeffrey Lloyd, “Witnesses to the Plan: American and Soviet Russia, 1929-1933,” History Honors Thesis, 1997
Paul Hagenloh, “The Komsomol, 1927-28,” History M.A. Thesis, 1994
SERVICE University of Texas: University-Wide Teaching Award Committee, 2014-2015 Member of Faculty Council, 2013-2014 Faculty Council Recreational Sports Committee Member, 2013-2014
UT History Department: Search Committee Chair, Military History, 2016-2017 Executive Committee member, 2014-2016 Frank Denius Normandy Scholar Program, Director, 2010 – Frank Denius Normandy Scholar Program, Faculty Member, 2001 — European Area Committee, Chair, 1997-2001, 2007-2010 Search Committee Chair, Eastern Europe, 2008-09 Harrington Fellow Search, Chair, 2003 Search Committee Member, Iranian History, 2003 Search Committee Member, European History Visiting Lecturer, 2002 Search Committee Member, Modern German History, 2002 Search Committee Member, Modern British/German History, 2001 Search Committee Member, Modern British History, 1999 Search Committee Member, East European History, 1996 Search Committee Member, French History, 1994 Graduate Program Committee, 1995-1998, 2006-2007, 2009-2011 Graduate Admissions Committee, 1997-1998, 2001, 2005 Budget Council, 1991-1992, 2000-2001, 2003-2004 Junior Faculty Mentor, 1996-2003 Peer Teaching Evaluation, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010-2011 Salary Committee, 1991-1992 Search Committee, Russian History Visiting Lecturer, 1991 Lathrop Prize Committee, 2001 Jon Carlton Perry Prize Committee, 1991
UT Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies: Graduate Adviser, 2001-2004 Graduate Program Admissions Committee, 1995-2004 Selection Committee for Foreign Language and Area Studies Graduate Student Fellowships (FLAS), 1994-2004, 2016
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9 UT Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies: Committee to Devise Governance Plan, 2003 Executive Committee, 2003 Peer Teaching Evaluation, 2003, 2004
UT Plan II Honors Program: Senior Thesis Symposium, History moderator, March 2, 2003 Admissions Committee Member, 1997
Lafayette College History Department: Search Committee, Chinese History, 1990 Search Committee, American History, 1990
ON-LINE ARTICLES “Election Fraud! Read All About It! The 1924 Zinoviev Letter,” Not Even Past, October 31 2012
“Order No. 227: Stalinist Methods and Victory on the Eastern Front,” Not Even Past, September 1, 2011
“Lend-Lease Aid to the USSR,” Not Even Past, September 21, 2011
PODCAST: 15-Minute History “Legacy of World War I on the Eastern Front” October 31, 2018
PANELIST: “Study Local Practice: Institutional ‘Feedback’ and the Viability of NEP” Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Convention Chicago, November 2017
“Culture and Historical Change in Central and Eastern Europe” Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Convention Washington D.C., November 2016
“Russia/Soviet Perceptions of the Other Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Convention San Antonio, November 2014
“Russia’s Forgotten War,” Remembering World War I on its Centennial, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas, April 2014
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10 “Problems in Soviet and Post-Soviet History: Forest Law, Red Terror and Policing Lviv” Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Convention New Orleans, November 2012
“Bolsheviks in Power: Soviet Elites in the Early 1920s” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Convention Washington DC, November 2006
“Ethno-Nationalism in the USSR” Areas Studies Summer Institute on Nationalism University of Texas, June 1998
“Class Formation and Re-Formation in the Donbass” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Convention Honolulu, November 1993
“Rethinking Soviet Studies” Ford Foundation Seminar Washington, D.C., October 1992
KUT.FM: “The Next Two Hundred Years” (Nationally Syndicated Program), June 1992
University of Texas Residence Hall Culture Week: “Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?” March 1992
UT Student Union Issues Forum: “A Soviet Union?” October 1991
KUT.FM: Listener Call-In Radio Show following Attempted Soviet Coup, August 1991
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Talks: “On Stalinist Denial of the Holodomor” Notwithstanding the Evidence: Historians on Denialism Series Institute for Historical Studies November 15, 2017
“Getting Together then Falling Apart: Mikhail Tomsky and British Trade Unionists during the 1920s” Institute for Historical Studies Workshop December 4, 2017
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11 “How Stalin’s Russia Stopped Hitler” Context & Controversy Panel Institute for Historical Studies February 28, 2017
“Russia Today” UT Osher Lifelong Learning Institute March 30, 2016
“Revolutionary Russia: Causes and Consequences of the Communist Revolution in Russia” UT Osher Lifelong Learning Institute February 17, 2015
“Russia’s Forgotten War” Remembering World War I on Its Centennial. Institute for Historical Studies April 16, 2014
“World War II on the Eastern Front” San Angelo Texas Exes & San Angelo State University Enrichment Program San Angelo, TX, September 25, 2012
“Transforming Students’ Lives: Active Learning through Critical Thinking” Keynote Speaker for 8th Annual Teaching Conference Sam Houston State University, August 18, 2011
“The Fall of the Romanovs” Creative Mind Humanities Lecture Series, January 28, 2010 Amarillo, TX
“20th Century Russia” UT’s MBA Global Studies Program, January 2009
“Triumph and Tragedy on the Second World War’s Eastern Front” Phi Alpha Theta initiation ceremony, October 2008
"The Second World War in Global Perspective: The Normandy Scholar Program Looks at a Turning Point in World History"? (Reopening Garrison Hall), February 2008
“Lessons Learned, Lessons Applied: Remembering the UFW” UT Panel: Labor’s Legacies (connected with Caesar Chavez Statue Unveiling) October 2007
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“Teaching, Travel, and Texas” University of Texas A&M – Corpus Christi, April 2007
“Stalinist Russia at War” Odyssey Program, UT Extension, March 2004
“Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?” UT SAGE (Seminars for Adult Growth and Enrichment), September 2003
“Russia’s Past and Prospects” Houston Seminar, October 2001
“Russia’s Past and Prospects” Learning Activities for Mature People, UT, November 2001 Lakeway Men’s Club, March 2002
“Stalinism: The Logical Outcome of the Revolution?” University Historical Society, November 2002
“Nicholas and Alexandra: New Perspectives” University Historical Society, November 1999
“Inside Stalinist Russia: The Fears and Beliefs of Ordinary Russians in Extraordinary Times” University of Texas Historical Society, November 1998
"The Russian Revolution of 1905" Texas Tech University, March 1992
"Russia: Where From? Where To?" Learning Activities for Mature People, UT Austin March 1992
"Revolutionary and Reactionary? Workers in Tsarist Russia," Rice University, November 1988
Virtual Course: “Where Stalin’s Russia Defeated Hitler’s Germany” Three Live Chats on Not Even Past February 21, March 28, April 25, 2011
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13 Consultant: Drafted Institutional Request for Master of Arts Degree in Post-Soviet and East European Studies, a new program at UT Austin, 1991
Program Coordinator: Phi Alpha Theta Conference, 1990 Eastern Pennsylvania Branch
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE National Association Committee Member: Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Program Committee 2014
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 1994-1999 “Students in the '90s”
Prize Committee Member: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Graduate Student Essay Contest, 1994, 1995, 1996
Outside Examiner: Honors Candidates in History: Swarthmore College, 1989
COURSES TAUGHT University of Texas at Austin Stalin’s Russia at War (Normandy Scholar Program Seminar) Revolutionary Russia (Graduate Course) Workers in Revolutionary Russia (Graduate Course) Stalinist Russia (Graduate Course) Soviet Union: From World War II to the Collapse (Graduate Course) History of Russia from 1917 (Undergraduate Survey) Stalinist Russia (Undergraduate Seminar) Revolutionary Russia (Undergraduate Seminar) Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia (Plan II Seminar) Western Civilization in Modern Times (Undergraduate Survey) Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies (Undergraduate Core Course) Seminar in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Civilizations and Cultures (Graduate Core Course)
Lafayette College History of the Soviet Union Technology, Culture, and Values: The Soviet Model Stalinist Russia Development of the Modern World
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Rice University Modern Russian History Introduction to Humanities I Introduction to Humanities II
University of Houston, Clear Lake Modern Russia (Graduate Course) Twentieth-Century Europe (Graduate Course) History of Modern Russia History of Twentieth-Century Europe History of Modern Germany History of Modern Britain History of Modern China Basic Texts in the Western Tradition II
Stanford University Stalinist Russia
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