Roberta T. Manning

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1975; M.A., Columbia University, 1967; B.A., Rice University, 1962.
Professor of History, Boston College
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
617.552.3795 (work)
617.965.1285 (home)
manning@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/manning_roberta
http://www2.bc.edu/~manning

Research Interests
Stalin period (social and political history especially of the Terror); rural Russia; the Cold War

Current Projects
Tragediia sovetskoi derevni: kollektivizatsia i razkulachivanie: dokumenty i materialy v piati tomov,1927-1939 [The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization]; currently in progress: Vol. 5 The Great Purges Book 1, 1937, Book 2 1938-39, Book 3 Statistical tables to be published in Moscow by Rosspen 2003; 2500 pages of documents mainly from the Central Archive of the FSB Editor-in-Chief with V. P. Danilov and Lynne Viola; The Tragedy of the Soviet Village English Vol. 1 Collectivization and Dekulakization, to be published under contract by Yale University Press in their Annals of Communism series, 2004, a condensation of Vols 1 and 2 of the Russian edition. Editor-in-Chief with V. P. Danilov and Lynne Viola;
Backstage at a Soviet Show Trial: a Micro-History of the Great Purges behind the facade of Stalinism at a provincial show trial based on 20 years of archival research and interviews anticipated publication date 2005-06.

Selected Publications

The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government (Princeton University Press, Dec. 1982). Awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association, 1983.

Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1993) edited with J. Arch Getty.

Bel'skii Raion, 1937 g. [Belyi Raion, 1937] (Smolensk, Russia, SGPU Press, 1998).

Tragediia sovetskoi derevni: kollektivizatsia I razkulachivanie: dokumenty I materialy v piati tomov,1927-1939 (The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization: Documents and Materials in Five Volumes, 1927-1939): Volume 1 (Prelude to Collectivization, 1927-1929) Moscow: Rosspen, 1999; Volume 2 (Collectivization and Dekulakization, 1930) Moscow: Rospen, 2000; Volume 3 (The Great Famine, 1931-33) Moscow: Rosspen, 2001; Volume 4 (Relaxation and Resistence, 1934-36) Moscow: Rospen, 2002 (Editor-in-chief together with V. P. Danilov and Lynne Viola).

"The Rise and Fall of the Extraordinary Measures, January-June, 1928: Towards a Reassessment of the Onset of the Stalin Revolution," The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, No. 1504, (Jan. 2001) 57 pp.