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Diane P. Koenker
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Professor of History
Professor Koenker specializes in modern Russia and the Soviet Union, and European working-class history.
Her current research focuses on everyday life, leisure, and consumption in the Soviet Union. Her publications include Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930 (2005); Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (1989), with William G. Rosenberg; Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution (1981); Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism (2006, editor, with Anne E. Gorsuch); Eduard Dune, Notes of a Red Guard (1993, editor and translator, with S.A. Smith); Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History (1989, editor, with William G. Rosenberg and Ronald Grigor Suny). She is working on a new book on the history of tourism and vacations in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1970s.