Stuart Finkel
Visiting Associate Professor
E-mail: Stuart.D.Finkel@Dartmouth.edu
Ph.D. Stanford University
Courses Taught (University of Florida)
- Between Europe and Asia: Russia and the World in Modern Times
- History of Imperial Russia
- 20th c. Russian & Soviet History
- Crisis in Modern Europe and the Intelligentsia
- Empire and Nation in Russian & Soviet History
- The Russian Revolution
- Modern European Intellectual History
- What is the Good Life? (Introduction to the Humanities)
Selected Publications
- “Nikolai Berdiaev and the Philosophical Tasks of the Emigration,” in Gary M. Hamburg and Randall A. Poole, eds., A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830-1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 346-62.
- On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007).
- “Sociology and Revolution: Pitirim Sorokin and Russia’s National Degeneration,” Russian History/Histoire Russe 32, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 155-69.
- “An Intensification of Vigilance: Recent Perspectives on the Institutional History of the Soviet Security Apparatus in the 1920s,” Kritika 5, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 299-320.
- “Purging the Public Intellectual: The 1922 Expulsions from Soviet Russia,” Russian Review 62, no. 4 (October 2003): 589-613.
- “Organizovannaia professura i universitetskaia reforma v Sovetskoi Rossii (1918-1922)” [The Organized Professoriate and University Reform in Soviet Russia, 1918-22]. In Vlast’ i nauka, uchenye i vlast’: 1880-e – nachalo 1920-kh godov. St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2003.
For research interests
- The Russian/Soviet Intelligentsia
- The Russian Revolution
- 20th c. Russian & Soviet cultural politics
- Political Prisoners and Human Rights
- Intellectuals and the Public Sphere