Richard Robbins
Professor Emeritus • Europe, Russia, Eastern Europe, Institutional

Profile
Professor Robbins has taught at UNM since 1969. His field is Russian history, which he covers in a four-semester survey. He also gives specialized seminars, as well as teaching courses in Western Civilization. Robbins’ main area of research is the history of the Russian state administration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of two books on the subject, and is currently working on a biography of Vladimir Dzhunkovskii, a prominent official in the last years of imperial Russia.
Education
B.A., Williams College, 1961
M.A., Certificate of the Russian Institute, Columbia University, 1965
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970
Research
Russian History, Eastern European History, and Institutional History
Selected Publications
Famine in Russia, 1891-1892: The Imperial Government Responds to a Crisis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975)
The Tsar’s Viceroys: Russian Provincial Governors in the Last Years of Empire (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987)
“Vladimir Dzhunkovskii: Witness for the Defense,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2 (Summer, 2001): 635-54
Awards
Fulbright-Hays Grant for Study in Russia, Spring 2003
Participant in ACLS-AN SSSR Exchange of Research Scholars under the Auspices of IREX, Spring 1990
Senior Research Scholar in USSR, IREX-Ministry of Higher Education Exchange, Spring 1976
Courses
Western Civilization to 1648; Western Civilization since 1648; Former Soviet Union Today; Russia 1853-1924; Russia 1924-Present; The Stalin Era; Old Russia, 9th- 17th Century; Romanov Russia to 1855;

