Richard Robbins

Professor Emeritus • Europe, Russia, Eastern Europe, Institutional

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Contact

email: rrobbins@unm.edu

office: Mesa Vista 2056

office phone: (505) 277-6017

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;