Mark L. von Hagen

The Harriman Institute
Columbia University
1214 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street, MC 3336
New York, NY 10027

Office Hours: M 2-4, T 10-12

Phone: (212) 854-6213/4623

Email: mlv2@columbia.edu

Teaching (Syllabi on-line):

Current Classes:

W4361y:	The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
G8364y:	Russia/Soviet Union/Eurasia in the 20th Century: Historiography, New Themes and Approaches

Other Offerings Spring 2000:

Publications:

Books:

"Introduction" and "States,Nations and Identities: The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter in the First Half of the 20th Century", in co-edited with Andreas Kappeler, Frank Sysyn, and Zenon Kohut, Peoples, Nations, Identities: The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter, (forthcoming, 1998).

"Writing the History of Russia as Empire," in co-edited with Catherine Evtuhov, Boris Gasparov, Alexander Ospovat, Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian Empire. (Moscow, ITS-Garant, 1997).

"The Russian Empire" and "Conclusion", in co-edited with Karen Barkey, After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empires. (Westview Press, 1997).

Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State (Cornell University Press, 1990).

Co-editor with author (Paul Dotsenko), The Struggle for a Democracy in Siberia: Eyewitness Account of a Contemporary. (Hoover Institution Press, 1983).

Articles:

"Confronting Backwardness: Dilemmas of Soviet Officer Education in the Interwar Years, 1918-1941," in Forging the Sword: Selecting, Educating and Training Cadets and Junior Officers in the Modern World, (Volume 5, Military History Symposium Series) ed. Elliot V. Converse, III. (Chicago: Imprint Publications, forthcoming 1998).

"The Great War and the Mobilization of Ethnicity in the Russian Empire" in Barnett Rubin and Jack Snyder,
eds, Post-Soviet Political Order:Conflict and State Building (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).

"The Multiethnic Imperial Army Confronts Nationalism, 1874-1917," in Reforming the Tsar's Army, (forthcoming, Yale University Press).

"The Levee en Masse from Russian Empire to Soviet Union, 1874-1938," (forthcoming, Princeton University Press).

"Leon Trotsky," in the Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, (forthcoming 1998, Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books).

"War and the Transformaion of Loyalties and Identities in the Russian Empire, 1914-1918" in Annali, (Cortona: Fondazione Giangiacome Feltrinelli, forthcoming 1999).

“Introduction” and “The Russian Imperial Army and the Ukrainian National Movement in 1917" and Guest Editor of The Ukrainian Quarterly (forthcoming Spring 1999).

"Ukraine", article commissioned for Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921, eds. Edward Acton and William G. Rosenberg, assoc. ed. Vladimir Chernaiev (London: Christopher Wheeler, 1997).

"Does Ukraine Have a History?" Slavic Review Vol. 54, No. 3, Fall 1995. Chy mae Ukraina istoriiu? Visti z Ukrainy (29 May-5 June 1997).

"After the Soviet Union: Rethinking Modern Russian History." The Seventeeth Annual Phi Alpha Theta Distinguished Lecture on History. (Albany: SUNY, 1997).

"Natsional'nyi vopros v XX veke," in Viktor Danilov, ed., Kuda idet Rossiia? (Moscow, 1997).

"Ukraine", article commissioned for Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921, eds. Edward Acton and William G. Rosenberg, assoc. ed. Vladimir Chernaiev (London: Arnold, 1997).

"Stalinism and the Politics of Post-Soviet History," and "From `The Great Fatherland War' to the Second World War: New Perspectives and Future Prospects" in Moshe Lewin and Ian Kershaw, eds., Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

"Rossisko-ukrainskie otnosheniia v pervoi polovine 20go veka," in Alexei Miller, ed., Rossiia-Ukraina: istoriia vzaimootnoshenii (Iazyk russkoi kul'tury, Moscow, 1997).

"Toward a Cultural and Intellectual History of Soviet Russia in the 1920s: Some Preliminary Directions for a Reevaluation of Politics and Culture. Revue des Etudes Slaves (LXVIII/2, 1996).

"The Rise and Fall of the Proletarian Sparta: Civil-Military Relations and Reformism in Soviet History," in David Holloway and Norman Naimark, eds., Reexamining the Soviet Experience: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin, (Westview Press, 1996).

"The Legacy of the Soviet Army for Ukraine's Armed Forces," Harvard Ukrainian Occasional Papers, Fall, 1995.

"Workers'-Peasants' Red Army," in Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 55, April 1993, pp. 51-55.

"The Archival Gold Rush and Historical Agendas in the Post-Soviet Era," Slavic Review, Vol. 52, No. 1, Spring 1993.

"The Stalin Question and the Reformulation of the Soviet Past," The Harriman Institute Forum, Vol. 5, No.7, March 1992.

"Soviet Soldiers and Officers On the Eve of the German Invasion: Towards a Description of Social Psychology and Political Attitudes," Soviet Union/Union soviétique, Vol. 18, Nos. 1-3, 1991.

"Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: From Defending the Revolution to Building Socialism," in Sheila Fitzpatrick, Alexander Rabinowitch and Richard Stites, eds., Russia in the Era of NEP, (Indiana University Press, 1991).

"Civil-Military Relations and the Evolution of the Soviet Socialist State," Slavic Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, Summer 1991.

"Tentative and Provisional Theses on the Future of Sovietology," Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost' (Social Sciences and Modern Times), No. 3, 1991.

"Armiia i obshchestvo v 1920-ye gody," Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal (Military History Journal), No. 12, 1990.

"The NEP, Perestroika, and the Problem of Alternatives," in John Tedstrom, ed., Socialism, Perestroika, and the Dilemmas of Soviet Economic Reform, (Westview Press, 1990).

"A Note on Military Sources," in Sheila Fitzpatrick and Lynne Viola, eds., Historian's Guide to Sources on Soviet Society in the 1930s, (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990).

"The Red Army," article in Robert Devlin and George D. Jackson, eds., The Dictionary of the Russian Revolution, (Greenwood Press, 1989).

"History and Politics under Gorbachev: Professional Autonomy and Democratization," The Harriman Institute Forum, November 1988.

"Engels and Marx on Revolution, War and the Army in Society," with Sigmund Neumann in Peter Paret,
Gordon Craig, Felix Gilbert, eds., Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, (Princeton University Press, 1986).

Guest editor, Soviet Studies in History, Fall 1984, "Civil War and War Communism."

Book Reviews:

A History of Ukraine by Paul Robert Magocsi. The Journal of Modern History (forthcoming).

Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance by Lynne Viola. Slavic Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, Spring 1998.

The Gulag at War: Stalin's Forced Labour System in the Light of the Archives by Edwin Bacon. The Russian Review, October 1996.

Ukrainian Past, Ukrainian Present edited by Bohdan Krawchenko. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, V. 17, Number 3-4, 1996.

Bayonets before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914, by Bruce W. Menning; Journal of Modern History, V. 67, Number 2, June 1995.

Rußland als Vielvölkerreich by Andreas Kappeler. Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 1995.

Nationalism and Policy Toward the Nationalities in the Soviet Union by Gerhard Simon. Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 1995.

National History as Cultural Process: A Survey of the Interpretations of Ukraine's Past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Historical Writing from the Earliest Times to 1914, by Stephen Velychenko. Slavic and East European Journal, 1995.

Ukraine and Russia in Their Historical Encounter, edited by Peter J. Potichnyj, Marc Raeff, Jaroslaw Pelenski, Gleb N. Zekulin. Slavic and East European Journal, 1995.

Afterword, Roy Medevedev reviewing Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: A New Biography; The Nation January 30, 1995.

The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917-1930, by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse; Slavic Review, V. 53, Spring 1994, pp. 234-6.

Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics, Conversations with Felix Chuev, edited by Albert Resis; Political Science Quarterly, V. 109, Winter 1994-1995, pp. 926-8.

Workers, Society and the Soviet State: Labor and Life in Moscow, 1918-1929, by William J. Chase; ILWCH, Spring 1994.

Culture of the Future, by Lynn Mally; Labor History, V. 35, Spring 1994, pp. 235-6.

Ukrainian Past, Ukrainian Present. Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and
East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990. Edited by Bohdan Krawchenko. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, V. XVII, Number 3/4. December 1993.

Simplifications stalinennes et complications soviétiques, by Gabor Tamas Rittersporn; Revue des Etudes Slaves, LXIV/1, 1992.

From Serf to Russian Soldier, by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter; Journal of Modern History, V. 64, December 1992, pp. 853-5.

Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations, by Walter Laqueur; The Nation, March 25, 1991.

Revolution on the Volga, by Donald Raleigh; Slavic Review, V. 49, Summer 1990, pp. 286-7.

Review essay, The Best Sons of the Fatherland, by Lynne Viola; Slavic Review, V. 48, Winter 1989, pp. 637-40.

Review essay, The First Socialist Society, by Geoffrey Hosking; Slavic Review, V.46, Spring 1987, pp. 118-22.

Russia: The Soviet Period, by Woodford McClelland; Slavic Review, V. 46, Spring 1987, pp. 118-22.

High Treason: Essays on the History of the Red Army, 1919-1938, by Vitaly Rapoport and Yuri Alexeev; Slavic Review, V. 45, Summer 1986, pp. 339-40.

The Birth of the Propaganda State, by Peter Kenez; Slavic Review, V. 44, #4, Winter 1986, pp. 741-743.

East European Languages and Literatures: A Subject and Name Index to Articles in English-Language Journals, 1900-1977, by Garth M. Terry; Russian Review, April 1980.

The Bolsheviks and the Red Army, 1918-1922, by Francesco Benvenuti; Canadian-American Slavic Studies
Bread and Authority, by Lars Lih; Canadian-American Slavic Studies.

Rußlands goldener Boden: Der sibirische Regionalismus in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, by Wolfgang Faust; Russian Review, April 1980.

Awards and Positions:

Positions:

Donald M. Kendall Visiting Associate Professor in Soviet Studies, Department of History, Stanford University, January 1995 - June 1995.

Associate Director, W. Averell Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, Columbia University, July 1989 - June 1992.

Visiting Professor, Osteuropa-Institut, Free University of Berlin, Germany, September 1991 - December 1991.

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia University, January 1985 - June 1989.

Visiting Professor, Department of History, Yale University, January 1988 - May 1988.

Teaching Fellow, Western Culture Program, Humanities Track, Stanford University, September 1983 - June 1984.

Awards:

Acting U.S. Project Director, “Collaborative Faculty Exchange Prgoram between Columbia University and Tartu University, Estonia,” USIA Grant. 1995-1999.

Principal Investigator, "Empire and Region: The Russian Case, 1700-1991," Ford Foundation Grant, 1997- 1999.

Co-Director (with Professor Jack Snyder, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University), "Evaluating NGO Strategies for Democratization and Conflict Prevention in the Formerly Communist States", Carnegie Corporation Grant.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Andreas Kappeler, Cologne University), NEH-Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation Grant, "Peoples, Nations, Identities: The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter," 1993-1996.

Principal Investigator, (in collaboration with Moscow Memorial Society) Ford Foundation Grant, International Human Rights Division. "The Human Rights Movement in the Sakharov Period and Its Impact on the Struggle for a Rule-of-Law Government in the Soviet Union. 1990-1995.

Research Fellowships, Kosciuszko Foundation; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Summer 1992.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship, Osteuropa Institut, Free University of Berlin, Germany, February - December 1991.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Russian and Soviet Studies, Social Science Research Council, Summers 1988-90, Spring 1989.

Columbia Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship. Summers 1986-1987.

Research Fellow, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, The Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., Summer 1995.

Fulbright-Hays/International Research and Exchanges Board Young Faculty/Graduate Student Exchange Research Fellowship, USSR, September 1982 - June 1983.

Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, Stanford University, September 1979 - June 1982.

Graduate Fellowship, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University, September 1977 - June 1978.

National Defense Foreign Language Grant (Polish), Indiana University, September 1976 - June 1977.

Research:

Works in Progress:

Past research:

Moscow, Russia: State Military Historical Archive of the Russian Federation, Summer 1994.

Kyiv, Ukraine: Central State Archive of Higher Organs of State and Administration of Ukraine, Summer 1994.

Kyiv, Ukraine: State Archive for Socio-political Associations (former Archive of the Communist Party of Ukraine), Summer 1993.

Freiburg, Germany: Bundesarchiv; Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Summer 1992.

Warsaw, Poland: Central Military Archive, Military History Institute, November 1991.

Moscow, Russia: Institute of History of the USSR, Academy of Sciences; Central State Archive of the Soviet Army; Central Party Archive, Institute of Marxism-Leninism, January-February, 1991;
May-July 1990.

Moscow, Russia: Institute of World History, Academy of Sciences; Central State Archive of the October Revolution, May 1989.

Leningrad; Moscow, Russia: Academy of Sciences Library, Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library, Hertzen Institute Library, Lenin Library, State Historical Library, INION Library, 1982-1983.