Matthew Lenoe Department of History University of Rochester Rochester NY 14627 (585)305-2934 [email protected] ​ ACADEMIC CAREER Chairman, Department of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (2012 – 2018). Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Rochester (2005-present). Visiting International Scholar, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany (2018-2019) Foreign Visiting Fellow, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (2005-2006). Assistant Professor, Department of History, Assumption College, Worcester, MA (2001-2005, tenured in 2005). Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of History, University of Arkansas/Little Rock (1997-2001). Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Harvard University (1999-2000). Russian language instructor, Choate Rosemary Hall School, Wallingford, CT (1990-1992). EDUCATION Ph.D. in Russian History, University of Chicago (December 1997). Thesis adviser: Sheila Fitzpatrick. Dissertation: “Stalinist Mass Journalism and the Transformation of Soviet Newspapers, 1926-1932.” Second field in East Asia. M. A. in Russian History, University of Chicago (1993). B.A., General Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago (summa cum laude). ​ ​ B.A. thesis, "The Rhetoric of History in the Mexican Revolution” (1988). BOOKS The Kirov Murder and Soviet History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010 (winner ​ of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2011 Zelnik Book 1 Prize in History; selected by Simon Sebag Montefiore in Sunday Telegraph as one of the ​ ​ “books of the year,” 2010). Closer to the Masses! Stalinist Culture, Social Revolution, and Soviet Newspapers. ​ Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Agitation, Propaganda, and the ‘Stalinization’ of the Soviet Press, 1925-1933, The Carl ​ Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, no. 1305, University of Pittsburgh, 1998 (109 pages). ARTICLES “Emotions and Psychological Survival in the Red Army, 1941-1942,” Kritika: ​ Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, forthcoming in spring 2021. ​ “Fear, Loathing, and Conspiracy: The Kirov Murder as Impetus for Terror,” in James Harris, et al, eds., The Anatomy of Terror, Oxford University Press, 2013. ​ ​ “Khruschchev Era Politics and the Investigation of the Kirov Murder, 1956-1957,” Acta ​ Slavica Iaponica 24 (2007): 47-73. ​ “In Defense of Timasheff’s Great Retreat,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and ​ ​ ​ Eurasian History 5, 4 (Fall 2004): 721-730. ​ “NEP Newspapers and the Origins of Soviet Information Rationing,” Russian Review 62, ​ ​ no. 4 (October 2003): 614-636. “Did Stalin Kill Kirov and Does It Matter?” Article reviewing the literature on the Kirov assassination, Journal of Modern History 74, no. 2 (June 2002): 352-380. ​ ​ "Letter-Writing and the State: Reader Correspondence with Newspapers as a Source for Early Soviet History, Cahiers du monde russe 40, nos. 1-2 (January-June 1999): 139-170. ​ ​ “Reader Response to the Soviet Press Campaign against the Trotskii-Zinovev Opposition, 1926-1928,” Russian History 24, nos. 1-2 (1997): 89-116. ​ ​ FELLOWSHIPS / SCHOLARSHIPS / AWARDS Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, 2011. Foreign Visiting Fellow, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan (2005-2006). Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (1996-97). 2 Fulbright-Hays, IREX Fellowships for dissertation research (Moscow, 1994-95). Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 4 years tuition and stipend (1992-96). Abraham J. Karp Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Rochester Department of History (2007). Faculty Development Grant for development of new departmental course in World History, Assumption College, summer 2002. Faculty Scholarship Award for summer research in Russia, University of Arkansas/Little Rock (1999). American Council of Teachers of Russian Fellowship for summer study of Russian language (1991). Phi Beta Kappa (1988). Bobrinskoy Prize in Russian language study, University of Chicago (1986). Honor Scholarship, the College of the University of Chicago; 4-year full tuition scholarship (1981-86). ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES “Press,” “Censorship,” in Silvio Pons and Robert Service, eds., A Dictionary of Twentieth ​ Century Communism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. ​ “Press,” “Censorship,” in Silvio Pons and Robert Service, eds., Dizionario del ​ Communismo nel XX secolo, Torino: Einaudi, 2006 (Italian edition of previous entry). ​ “Sergei Kirov,” “New Economic Policy,” in Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age ​ of War and Reconstruction, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006. ​ “Izvestiya,” “Newspapers,” “Pravda,” “TASS,” in James Millar, et al., eds., Encyclopedia ​ of Russian History, Woodbridge, CT: Macmillan Reference Group, 2003. ​ BOOK REVIEWS 3 The Great Fear: Stalin’s Terror of the 1930s, by James Harris, and Agents of Terror: ​ ​ Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin’s Secret Police, by Alexander ​ Vatlin, Slavonic and East European Review, forthcoming. ​ ​ Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, by Stephen Kotkin, American Historical Review ​ ​ 124, no. 1 (February 2019): 376-377. The Last Days of Stalin, by Joshua Rubenstein, Journal of Cold War Studies 20, no. 4 ​ ​ ​ (Fall 2018): 256-258. Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle of Smolensk, by David Glantz, in Journal of Military ​ ​ History 81, no. 1 (January 2017): 264-266. ​ Stalin’s World: Dictating the Soviet Order, by James Harris and Sarah Davies, in ​ Slavonica 22, nos. 1-2 (2017): 117-118. ​ Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914-1939, by ​ David Hoffman, in Slavic Review 72, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 417-418. ​ ​ The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power, by Jan Plamper, in Journal of Cold ​ ​ War Studies 14, no. 4 (Fall 2012): 255-257. ​ Stalin’s Last Generation, by Julianne Furst, in American Historical Review 117, no. 1 ​ ​ ​ (February 2012): 300-301. Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War, by Kristin Roth-Ely, in Russian Review 71, no. 2 (April 2012): ​ ​ ​ 351-352. Stalin’s Genocides, by Norman Naimark, in Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und ​ ​ vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 22, no. 1 (2012): 117-119. ​ Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1928, by ​ Kenneth M. Pinnow, in Journal of Modern History 84, no. 1 (March 2012): 273-274. ​ ​ Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture, by Elizabeth ​ A. Papazian, in The NEP Era Journal 3 (2009): 101-103 ​ ​ Piggy Fox and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits, edited by Vatlin and ​ Malashenko, in Slavic Review 67, no. 2 (summer 2008): 500-501. ​ ​ Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda, edited by ​ David Brandenberger and Kevin Platt, in Russian Review 66, no. 1 (Jan. 2007): 153-54. ​ ​ 4 Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents, by Anne E. ​ Gorsuch, in Canadian American Slavic Studies 39, nos. 2-3 (Summer-Fall 2005): ​ ​ 317-319. Redefining Stalinism, edited by Harold Shukman, in Russian Review 64, no. 2 (April ​ ​ ​ 2005): 354-55. Thank You, Comrade Stalin by Jeffrey Brooks, in Russian Review 60, no. 2 (April 2001): ​ ​ ​ 296. Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963, by Odd ​ Arne Westad, in Russian Review 59, no. 1 (January 2000): 147-48. ​ ​ Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941, by ​ ​ ​ Sarah Davies, in Journal of Modern History 71, no. 3 (Sept. 1999): 789-791. ​ ​ Reinventing the Soviet Self: Media and Social Change in the former Soviet Union, by ​ Jennifer Turpin, in American Journal of Sociology 102, no. 1 (July 1996): 306-308. ​ ​ NEWSPAPER AND WEB OPEDS AND FEATURES “Could America’s COVID and Race Crises Weaken the Union the Way Chernobyl Broke Up the USSR?, Informed Comment, June 10, 2020, ​ ​ https://www.juancole.com/2020/06/americas-crises-chernobyl.html “It’s Time to Do Away With Laws Enforcing Triumphal National Histories,” The ​ Washington Post, April 17, 2019. ​ “Why it’s Time to Give the Soviet Union its Due for World War II,” The Washington ​ Post, December 5, 2018. ​ “Right-Wing Warnings Pose Far More Danger to America Than Left-Wing Violence,” The Washington Post, September 28, 2018. ​ “A Century Later, Chaos Remains” (on the centenary of the October Revolution), Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, November 11, 2017. ​ “US Missile Plan is a Mistake,” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 7, 2007. ​ ​ “US Must Not Stoop to Using Torture,” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, October 20, ​ ​ 2006. “Bush Run-Up to War in Iraq Peppered with Lies, Half-Truths,” Worcester Telegram and ​ Gazette, September 22, 2003. ​ 5 "A Precedent for Putin in 19th Century Japan," The Boston Globe, May 3, 2000. ​ ​ "Discipline before Democracy: The People Call for Lenin and October," Meriden Record ​ Journal, October 24, 1991. ​ "Black Comedy: Seeing Russia as the Messiah," Meriden Record Journal, October 16, ​ ​ 1991. “Wasted Lives: Truth in Russia Pains the Elderly,” Meriden Record Journal, October 13, ​ ​ 1991. "People, Not Gorby, Will Bring Reform," Meriden Record Journal (Meriden, CT), ​ ​ August 25, 1991. First in a series of articles written while I was in the USSR supervising a student exchange (see entries above). OTHER PUBLICATIONS Contributor to “Roundtable: What is a School? Is There a Fitzpatrick School of Soviet History?” Acta Slavica Iaponica