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Education

Ph.D., Department of Government, Harvard University, 1975

A.M. Regional Studies-Soviet Union Program, Harvard University, 1966

A.B. Cum Laude, Department of Political Science, Brandeis University, 1964

 

Major Fields of Interest

International Labor History

Comparative Revolution

Comparative Development and Institutions

Soviet/Russian and East European  Society and Culture

Historical Sociology

Sociology of Culture

Sociology of Everyday Life

Comparative and Historical Methods

 

Professional

Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Director, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, 2000-2004

Chair, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 1999-present

Chair, Center for Slavic & East European Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1994-2000

Acting Chair, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 1998-1999

Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Program, Political Economy of Industrial Societies, UC. Berkeley (1980-1990)

Lecturer in Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz (1974-1976, 1972-1973)

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Program on Social Studies (1971-1972, 1968-1970)

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

2002 Principal Investigator, "Extremism in the New Eurasia," Carnegie Corporation of New York 10/02-10/04

2001 Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley 7/01-7/02

2001 Project Director, Research and Training Program on Central Asia, National Security Education Program 3/02-3/06

1999 Principal Investigator, Graduate Training Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Carnegie Corporation of New York 10/99-10/01

1998 Principal Investigator (with Thomas Gold), Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurialism, and Democracy in Communist and Post-Communist Societies (with Thomas Gold), Mellon Foundation 7/98-7/00

1997 Project Director (with George Breslauer), Training Program on the Caucasus and Caspian Littoral, National Security Education Program, 1/98-1/00

1997 Principal Investigator (with George Breslauer), Russia on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 9/97-8/99

1997 Principal Investigator (with Michael Burawoy), "Traveling Theories: Theoretical Explanations of Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe," Ford Foundation, 8/97-12/98

1995 Principal Investigator (with George Breslauer), Program in Graduate Training and Research on the Contemporary Caucasus, Ford Foundation, 9/95-8/98

1991 Heldt Prize in Slavic Women's Studies (Best Article: "Representation of Women in Early Soviet Political Art," The Russian Review, vol. 50, no. 3 [July 1991])

1990-1991 President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

1988 International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship, ACLS/Academy of Sciences

1986-1987 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

1985 Guggenheim Fellowship

1984 Honorable Mention, Vucinich Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, for Roots of Rebellion

1984 Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, Summer Research Grant

1980-1981 Principal Investigator (with Reginald E. Zelnik), National Endowment for the Humanities and American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Conference on the History of Russian Labor, U.C. Berkeley, March 1982, Project Director

1980 National Endowment for the Humanities, Project on Collective Biographies of Russian Workers, Associate Project Director

1979 American Association of University Women Fellowship

American Philosophical Society Grant

1978 Regents Faculty Fellowship

Institute of International Studies Grant

1977 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship

International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship

Faculty Research Development Summer Research Grant

1976 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend

American Council of Learned Societies Grant

1973-1974 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

1971-1972 Russian Research Center Fellowship, Harvard University

1970-1971 International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship

1969-1970 Russian Research Center Fellowship, Harvard University

1968-1969 National Defense Education Act Fellowship

1967-1968 Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellowship

1966-1967 National Defense Education Act Fellowship

1965-1966 Harvard University Fellowship

1964 Phi Beta Kappa

Publications

Books:

New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia: Russia, Eastern Europe and China, ed. Victoria E. Bonnell and Thomas B. Gold (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2002)

Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder? (Boulder, Westview, 2000), ed. Victoria E. Bonnell and George Breslauer

Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999), ed. Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt

Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997)

Identities in Transition: Eastern Europe and Russia After the Collapse of Communism (Berkeley, IAS Press, 1996), ed. Victoria E. Bonnell

Russia at the Barricades: Eyewitness Accounts of the August 1991 Coup (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994), ed. Victoria E. Bonnell, Ann Cooper, and Gregory Freidin

Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900-1914 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983)

The Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime, ed. Victoria E. Bonnell (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983)

Articles:

"Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies" (with George Breslauer) in David L. Szanton, ed. The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines (University of California Press/University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection) Edited Volume #3, 2002

"Russia's New Entrepreneurs" in Victoria E. Bonnell and George Breslauer, eds., Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder? (Boulder: Westview, 2000)

"Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies" (with George Breslauer), Working Paper, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 1998

"Winners and Losers in Russia's Economic Transition" in Victoria E. Bonnell, ed., Identities in Transition: Russia and Eastern Europe After Communism (Berkeley, IAS Press, 1996)

"The Leader's Two Bodies: A Study in the Iconography of the Vozhd'," Russian History/Histoire Russe vol. 23, nos. 1-4 (1996)

"Televorot: The Role of Television Coverage in Russia's August 1991 Coup" in Nancy Condee, ed., Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia (Bloomington and London, 1995) (co-authored with Gregory Freidin; a revised version of the Slavic Review essay) Translated into French for Alain Calmes, ed., Medias a L'Est (Rennes, France: Presses l'universitaires de Rennes, forthcoming)

"The Iconography of the Worker in Soviet Political Art" in Lewis Siegelbaum and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds., Making Workers Soviet (Ithaca, 1994)

"Televorot: Television Coverage of Russia's August 1991 Coup," Slavic Review vol. 52, no. 4 (winter 1993) (co-authored with Gregory Freidin)

"The Labor Force" in James Cracraft, ed., Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia (Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath, 1993) [reprint of the introduction and one chapter from The Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime, ed. by Victoria E. Bonnell]

"The Peasant Woman in Stalinist Political Art of the 1930s" American Historical Review vol. 98 no. 1 (February 1993) Reprinted in The Aesthetic Arsenal: Socialist Realism Under Stalin, ed. Miranda Banks (New York: Institute for Contemporary Art, 1993)

"Representation of Women in Early Soviet Political Art," The Russian Review, vol. 50, no. 3 (July 1991)

Imagine della donna nell' iconografia sovietica dalla revolucione all'era Staliniana" [The Image of Women in Soviet Iconography From the Revolution to the Stalin Era] Storia contemporanea, vol. xxii (February 1991)

"Workers' Organizations in Russia Before the First World War," in Marcel von der Linden and Jurgen Rogahn,eds., Formation of Labour Movements 1870-1914: An International Perspective (Leiden,1990)

"Voluntary Associations in Gorbachev's Reform Program," in George Breslauer, ed. Will Gorbachev's Reforms Succeed? (Berkeley, 1990) Reprinted in Alexander Dallin and Gail Lapidus, eds., The Soviet System in Crisis: A Reader of Western and Soviet Views (Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford, 1991)

"Moscow Revisited: A View From Below" Dissent (Summer 1989)

"The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation," (Review Essay) The Russian Review, vol. 47, no. 4 (1988)

"Rethinking the Role of Workers in the Revolutions of 1917," (Review Essay) International Labor and Working Class History, no. 26 (fall 1984)

"Workers and the State in the Soviet Bloc," Workers Under Communism, spring 1984

"Working Class Life in Early Twentieth-Century Russia: Some Problems and Patterns," Russian History, vol. 8, part III (1981)

"The Uses of Theory, Concepts and Comparison in Historical Sociology," Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 22, no. 2 (April 1980)

"Trade Unions, Parties and the State in Tsarist Russia: A Study of Labor Politics in St. Petersburg and Moscow," Politics and Society, vol. 9, no. 3 (1980)

"Radical Politics and Organized Labor in Pre-Revolutionary Moscow, 1905-1914," Journal of Social History, vol. 12, no. 2 (March 1979)

"Soviet Russia: More Goods, More Problems," Dissent, vol.26, no. (winter 1979)

Introductory Essay: T.V. Sapronov, Iz istorii rabochego dvizheniya (po lichnym vospominaniyam), Oriental Research Partners: Newtonville, Mass., 1976 (Reprint Series)

 

Book Reviews

Reviews have appeared in American Historical Review, American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Russian Review, Slavic Review

 

Manuscript/Grant Reviews

American Sociological Review, American Historical Review, Slavic Review, Social Forces, The Russian Review, National Endowment for the Humanities, Princeton University Press, Indiana University Press, Northern Illinois Press, University of California Press, Westview Press

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