Professor David A.J. Macey

David A.J. Macey

· Professor of History and Russian Studies

Professor Macey has been teaching at Middlebury College for 29 years

· Office number: 802-443-5314

· Fax: 802-443-5394

Areas of interest:

· Research in agrarian reform in pre-Revolutionary Russia between 1857 and 1916, with particular interest in the Stolypin reforms, 1906-1916. From this core, my interests broaden out to the origins of the revolutions of 1917; agrarian history and the history of the peasantry both throughout Russian history and in the rest of the world; and comparisons between past and contemporary efforts at reform, political and agrarian. I also have considerable interest in the entire pre-modern and Soviet eras. Having also been trained as a French historian, I maintain strong interests in 18th century France, the French revolution, and nineteenth century France, especially the Paris Commune. In all of these areas, my general approach combines social, economic, political and intellectual history, but I also have an independent interest in European social history and the history of European social thought from the eighteenth century.

Classes taught at Middlebury College:

· I am currently on a sabbatical leave. I will return to full time teaching in spring 2008 when I will teach a seminar on “Stalin and Stalinism” and a First-Year Seminar entitled “Whither Putin’s Russia?”

· Over the last several years, while I was serving as Director of Off-Campus Study,, I was teaching only one course per year, alternating between a seminar on “Stalin and Stalinism” and one on "'The New Russian Revolution' in Historical Perpsective." In spring 1999, I co-taught an IS senior seminar with Ellen Oxfeld (Soc/Anthro) entitled: "Post-Communist Society? China and Russia."

· Previously, I have taught the 2-semester Russian History survey and a variety of seminars on Russian and Soviet history, the most recent of which were on the Peasantry in Russian History, on Stalin and Stalinism, and on the New Russia Revolution in Historical Perspective, which first examines traditions of reform in the past century and a half as precedents for the current era of reform and searches for general problems and patterns.

· introductory courses on Modern Revolutions and the French Revolution

· upper level courses on French history since 1750.

Selected Publications:

Books:

· Government and Peasant in Russia, 1861-1906: The Prehistory of the Stolypin Reforms. Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1987. 398 pp.

· Building Market Institutions in Post-Communist Agriculture: Land, Credit, and Assistance (co-edited with Will Pyle and Stephen K. Wegren). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004.

Articles/Book Chapters:

· "The Peasantry, the Agrarian Problem, and the Revolution of 1905-1907," in Columbia Essays in International Affairs. Vol. VII. The Dean's Papers, 1971, ed. by Andrew W. Cordier. NY: Columbia University Press, 1972, pp. 1-35.

· "Freedom, Progress and Salvation: The Messianic Agronomists" in Peasant Studies, 11:1 (Fall 1983), 29-46.

· "Bureaucratic Solutions to the Peasant Problem: Before and After Stolypin" in Russian and Eastern European History: Selected Papers from the Second World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, ed. by R. C. Elwood. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1984, pp. 73-95.

· "The Land Captains: A Note on Their Social Composition" in festschrift for L.H. Haimson, ed. by Richard S. Wortman, in Russian History/Histoire Russe, 16: 2-4 (1989), 327-51.

· "The Peasant Commune and the Stolypin Reforms: Peasant Attitudes,1906-1914" in Land Commune and Peasant Community in Russia: Communal Forms in Imperial and Early Soviet Society, ed. by Roger Bartlett. "Studies in Russian and East Europe Series." London: Macmillan & Co., 1990, pp. 219-36.

· "Gorbachev and Stolypin: Soviet Agrarian Reform in Historical Perspective" in Comparative Economic Studies, 1990:2, pp.7-28; reprinted in Perestroika in the Countryside: Agricultural Reform Under Gorbachev, ed.by W. Moskoff. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990, pp. 3-18.

· "Public Opinion and the Fate of the Gorbachev Reforms" in Global Economic Policy, 2:2 (1990), 47-53.

· "Government Actions and Peasant Reactions During the Stolypin Reforms" in New Perspectives in Modern Russian History, ed. by R.B. McKean. London: Macmillan & Co., 1992, pp. 133-173.

· "Stolypin is Risen! The Ideology of Agrarian Reform in Contemporary Russia" in The "Farmer Threat": The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Post-Soviet Russia, ed. Don Van Atta. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993, pp. 97-120.

· "Zemel'naia reforma i politicheskie peremeny: fenomen Stolypina," Voprosy istorii, 1993:4 (April), pp. 3-18.

· "Is Agrarian Privatization the Right Path? A Discussion of Historical Models" in Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, special ed., ed. Stephen K. Wegren, 21:2-3 (1994), 149-88.

· "Agricultural Reform and Political Change: The Case of Stolypin" in Reform in Modern Russian History: Progress or Cycle? ed. & trans. Theodore Taranovski. Washington, DC and New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge U.P., 1995, pp.163-89.

· "Reforming Agriculture in Russia: The 'Cursed Question' from Stolypin to Yeltsin" in Russia and Eastern Europe after Communism: The Search for New Political, Economic and Security Systems, ed. by Michael Kraus and Ronald Liebowitz, Boulder, Co:, Westview Press, 1996, pp.103-122 .

· "A Wager on History: The Stolypin Agrarian Reforms as Process: " in Transforming Peasants:: Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861-1903. Papers presented to the Fifth World Congress on Slavic and East European Studies, Warsaw, August 1995, ed. by Judith Pallot (London: Macmillan Publishers Inc, 1998), pp. 149-173.

· "Beyond the Area Studies Wars." Co-author with Neil Waters, in International Studies in the Next Millenium: Meeting the Challenge of Globalization, ed. by Julia A. Kushigian. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), 39-44.

· "The Role of the Peasant Land Bank in Imperial Russia's Agrarian Reforms, 1882-1917," Center for Privatization and Economic Reform in Agriculture, Occasional Paper #4. Kyiv: CPER, 1998. 26 pp.;. Ukraine Report Series, 98-UR 2. Ames, IA: Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, 1998.

· "V paradigme 'normal'nosti,'" part of a virtual roundtable discussion, with 25 Russian historians, 4 U.S. historians, and 1 British and 1 German historian, of Boris Mironov with Ben Eklof, A Social History of Russia, 1700-1917, 2 vols., (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999) in the journal Otechestvennaia Istoriia, 2000: 6, 60-62.

· "Russian Agrarian Reform in Russian Historical Perspective" in Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia, ed. by David J. O'Brien and Stephen K. Wegren. (Washington, DC and Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Press and the Johns Hopkins Press, 2002), pp. 178-202.

· "Stolypinskie agrarnye reformy kak protsess: Tsentr, periferiia, krest'iane i detsentral'izatsiia" in Rossiia sel'skaia. XIX-nachalo XX vv. ed. A.P. Korelin (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2004), 251-283.

· “Reflections on Peasant Adaptation in Rural Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Stolypin Agrarian Reforms,” in Journal of Peasant Studies, 31:3/4 (April-July, 2004), special Issue on “Rural Adaptation in Russia,” ed. by Stephen K. Wegren, 400-426. Reprinted in Rural Adaptation in Russia, ed. by Stephen K. Wegren. London and New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 38-64.

· “Intellectual Growth and the Integration of the Study Abroad Experience,” Frontiers. XII (November 2005), Special Issue, 56-58.

· "Byli li krest’iane protiv Stolypinskoi reformy?" in Nestor: Ezhekvartal’nyi zhurnal istorii i kul’tury Rossii i Vostochnoi Evropy, No. 11 (2007), special issue entitled Sovremennaia rusistiki: Smena paradigm, ed. by Boris N. Mironov (St. Petersburg, 2007).

Forthcoming Articles:

· “Ermolov, Aleksei Sergeevich” in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History (SMERSH), (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, forthcoming).

In Process:

· “The Role of Law in the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1861-1914,” in collection of papers from the Workshop on Law and Transformation in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, Istanbul, June 16-19, 2005.

· "Peasants and Paradigms: Reflections on the relationship between the peasantry, agrarian reform, and the Russian Revolution" in Revolutionary Russia.

Translations(Russian-English):

· "The State and the Public Sphere," in Vol. II of A Social History of Russia, 1700-1917, 2 vols., by Boris Mironov with Ben Eklof. (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999), II: 143-222.

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