DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
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Swarthmore, PA 19081
Phone: (610) 328-8133 Fax: (610) 328-8171
E-mail: rweinbe1@swarthmore.edu
Welcome to my Home Page. I teach courses on Modern Europe and Russia, and you can find a list of these courses in the following section. Just click on course titles for syllabi. My research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia, with a special emphasis on the history and experiences of Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union.
READ ABOUT MY RECENT TRIP TO ISRAEL WITH THE HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
EXPLORE A COLLECTION OF SOVIET POSTERS FROM THE 1920s AND 1930s
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of Death: Russia under Lenin and Stalin(First-Year Seminar)--History 1Q Modern
Europe, 1789-1919: The Age of Revolution and Counterrevolution Modern
Europe, 1890 to the Present: The Age of Democracy and Dictatorship--History 3B Revolutionary
Iconoclasm: Tearing Down the Old, Building the New--History 31
From Emancipation to Extermination: European Jewry's Encounter with Modernity--History 35
History and Memory: Perspectives on the Holocaust--History 37
Russia in the Twentieth Century--History 38
Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1871 (Honors Seminar)--History 122
Russia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Honors Seminar)--History 128
BOOKS
The Russian Revolution: A History in Documents (Oxford University Press, 2010). Joint authorship with Laurie Bernstein.
Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition on the history of Birobidzhan organized by the Judah Magnes Museum of Berkeley, California. You can also read the book in French (Birobidjan, 1928-1996, Paris: Editions Autrement, 2000) or German (Birobidshan: Stalin's vergessenes Zion, Frankfurt: Verlag Neue Kritik, 2003).
The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
EDITED VOLUMES
"Red and White: Conversations wtih Moritz Mebel." The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies(2007)
Russian Studies in History, vol. 43, nos. 1 and 2, 2004. Selected recent articles by Russian historians on Russian-Jewish history. Also wrote introduction.
Labor, Thought and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union: Essays Presented to Professor Reginald E. Zelnik by his Students and Colleagues. Edited with Gerald Surh. Special Issue of Russian History/Histoire Russe, Vol. 23, Pts. 1-4 (1996).
RECENT ARTICLES
"Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Late Imperial Russia." Andrew Murphy, ed., A Companion to Religion to Violence (Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming).
"Look! Up There in the Sky: It's a Vulture, It's a Bat … It's a Jew:
Reflections on Antisemitism in Late Imperial Russia, 1906-1914." Eugene Avrutin and Harriet Murav, eds., Jews in the East European Borderlands: Daily Life, Violence, and Memory(forthcoming)
"Demonizing Judaism in the Soviet Union during the 1920s." Slavic Review, vol. 77, no. 1 (Spring 2008).
"Biology and the Jewish Question After the Revolution: One Soviet Approach to the Productivization of Jewish Labor." Jewish History(forthcoming).
"The Russian Right Responds to Revolution:
Visual Depictions of Jews in the Black Hundred Press in Post-1905 Russia."
Ezra Mendelsohn, et al, Jews and the Russian Revolution of 1905: Essays
in Honor of Jonathan Frankel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). "Soviet Images of Jehovah in the 1920s."
In Joan Neuberger and Valerie Kivelson, eds., The RussianVisual Documents
Reader (Yale University Press, 2008). "The Politics of Remembering: The Treatment
of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union." In Dagmar Herzog, ed., The Holocaust
in International Perspective (Northwestern University Press, 2006). "Beyond the Pale: Reflections on Research
in Birobidzhan and Odessa." In Samuel Baron and Cathy Frierson, eds., Adventures
in Russian Historical Research (M. E. Sharpe, 2003), pp. 191-203. "Birobidzhan after the Second World War."
Jews in Eastern Europe, No. 3 (49) (Winter 2002), pp. 31-46. "Visualizing Pogroms in Russian History." Jewish
History, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall 1998), pp. 71-92. "Jewish Revival in Birobidzhan in the Mirror
of Birobidzhanskaia zvezda." East European Jewish Affairs.
Vol. 26, No. 1 (1996), pp. 35-53. "Birobidzhan and Solving the `Jewish Question':
The Making of a Jewish Peasantry." In Yaacov Ro'i, ed., Jews and Jewish Life
in Russia and the Soviet Union. Newbury Park, England: Frank Cass and Co.,
1995. "Purge and Politics in the Periphery: Birobidzhan
in 1937." Slavic Review. Vol. 52, No. 1 (Spring 1993), pp. 13-27. "The 1905 Pogrom in Odessa: A Case Study."
In John Klier and Shlomo Lambroza, eds., Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in
Modern Russian History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
1992, pp. 248-289.
A list of links to web sites that focus on
Russian and Soviet Studies. Slavic
Research Center of Hokkaido University (Resources for Russian and East European
Studies) Russian
Feminism Resources (Provides Links to Courses and Syllabi on Women and Slavic
Studies) Bucknell
University's Russian Studies (Numerous Links in All Disciplines) Red Files: Secret Victories
of the KGB (Four-part PBS Series) Comprehensive Guide to
Internet Resources on Russia, Central and Eastern Europe Benjamin
Sher(Numerous Links Relating to Slavic Studies, with Emphasis on Russian) Radio Free Europe and Radio
Liberty (Links to Broadcasts Using Real Audio) Listserv for Russian History (Electronic discussion group on
Russian history. To subscribe, send a message to H-Russia@H-NET.MSU.EDU. Leave
the subject field blank and in the messsage type "Subscribe H-Russia--Your Name.") Auburn University's
Site for Resources on Russian Culture and Language Beyond
the Pale: Jews in Russia National Public Radio's Russian
Studies Audio Archive (For complete list, see Kennan
Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.) Russian
History Sources at Swarthmore College The
Empire That Was Russia: Photos of Pre-1917 Russia in Color
WEB SITES ON RUSSIAN AND SOVIET STUDIES