Esther Kingston-Mann

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
617.287.6543
esther.kingston-mann@umb.edu

Research Interests
19th and 20th-century property rights, peasants, zemstvo statisticians, economic development

Current Projects
A Comparative History of Property Rights: Russia, England, Kenya and China

Selected Publications
Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution (Oxford, 1983).

Peasant Economy, Culture and Politics of European Russia 1800-1921 (Princeton, 1990) edited, with Tim Mixter: Introduction; Chapter 1: Peasant Communes and Rural Innovation

In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics and Problems of Russian Development (Princeton, 1999).

"The Danger of Universal Principles: Understanding the Demise of the Soviet Union," Challenge: A Magazine of Economic Affairs, (January, l999).

"Deconstructing the Romance of the Bourgeoisie: A Russian Marxist Path Not Taken," Review of International Political Economy, forthcoming January 2003.