Faculty and Staff
Prof. Mark D. Steinberg
Professor of History
Editor, Slavic Review
Mark Steinberg specializes on the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His research interests focus on the cultures of the city, modernities, visuality, the experiences and worldview of lower-class Russians, and the development of moral, social, religious, and political ideas and values. Publications include Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the Russian Printing Industry, 1867-1907 (California 1992); Cultures in Flux: Lower Class Values, Practices and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia (Princeton 1994 - edited with Stephen Frank); The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution (Yale 1995 - with Vladimir Khrustalev); Voices of Revolution, 1917 (Yale 2001 - including an on-line publication of original language texts); Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925 (Cornell 2002); Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia (Indiana 2006, edited with Heather Coleman); the seventh edition of A History of Russia, with Nicholas Riasanovsky (Oxford, 2005); plus a video/audio lecture series, A History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev. In August 2006, he became editor of the interdisciplinary journal Slavic Review. He was born in San Francisco and received his B.A. from U.C. Santa Cruz and his doctoral degree from U.C. Berkeley in 1987. He has also worked in New York City as a taxi driver and printer's apprentice.
Recent courses
- History 560: Politics, Society, and Culture in Modern Russia, 1801-1917 (Fall 2007)
- History 561A: Research Seminar in Russian and Soviet (Spring 2007)
- History 200F: Intro to Historical Interpretation--Interpreting the Modern City: London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg (Fall 2006)
- History 461: Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution (Spring 2006)
- History 260: Russian History from Early Times to the Present: Power, Imagination, and the Everyday (Fall 2005)
- History 298: Russia in Revolution: Experience and Imagination (Fall 2002)
Preliminary exam bibliography
Links
- Голоса pеволюции, 1917 г. (Golosa revoliutsii, 1917)--on-line publication of documents in the original Russian from Voices of Revolution, 1917 (Yale, 2001)
- History Department
- Russian History Program
- Slavic Review
- Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC)
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Reference, Bibliography, and Internet Resources:
- Yandex: Russian search engine and portal
- Russian Internet Resources (British Library)
- Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies links (UIUC REEEC)
- UIUC Slavic and East European Library: Internet Resources
- Guide to bibliographic and reference sources on Russian history (UIUC)
- Russian Archival Resources web-course
- Архивы России (official site of Federal Archive Service of Russia)
Courses Taught | Vita |