Interdisciplinary History I: The Russian Empire

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel and its companion (“Interdisciplinary History II: The Soviet Union”) continue an ongoing effort to stimulate cross-disciplinary discussion of political, economic, and social history. The four papers in this session use varied methods to study important themes in the economic and political development of the Russian Empire, including anti-Jewish pogroms in reaction to the 1905 Revolution, competition in the newspaper business, the political economy of agrarian reform, and a reevaluation of Alexander Gerschenkron’s theories of economic development.

Sub Unit

• Economic History/Economics/Business

Chair

• Steven L Hoch, Washington State U

Papers

• Nation as Reaction: The Political Mobilization of the Far Right in Imperial Russia - Dmitrii Kofanov, U of Pittsburgh; Carles Boix, Princeton U

• Underhanded Competition in the Late Imperial Russian Newspaper Business - Felix Cowan, U of Toronto (Canada)

• Alexander Gerschenkron and Late Industrialization - Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College

• Serfowners against Serfdom: Elite Divisions and Agrarian Reform at the Livonian Diet of 1803 - Brendan McElroy, U of Toronto (Canada)

Discussant

• Steven Nafziger, Williams College