Expertise
  • Modern (Imperial, Soviet post-Soviet) Russia
  • Education, politics and policy making in Russia
  • Russian daily life
  • Russian peasantry

My research and writing has centered upon village life in Imperial Russia before the Revolution; on schools; on reform movements and policies from the time of the Great Reforms to the perestroika era.

Communities
Russian, History
Degrees
PhD, Princeton University, 1977
BA, Middlebury College, 1968
Keywords
europe, western former soviet union russia history modern history social history rural education literacy elementary education