Roberta T. Manning

Ph.D. in History, Columbia University, 1975
Professor of History, Boston College
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
617.965.1285 (home)
617.552.3795 (office)
manning@bc.edu

Research Interests
Soviet social and political history in the 1930s

Current Projects
"The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: The Great Purges in the Soviet Countryside" (under contract with Yale University Press); "Backstage at a Stalinist Show Trial."

Selected Publications
“Political Terror or Political Theater: The Raion Show Trials of 1937 and the Mass Operations,” Festschrift for Richard Hellie, Part 5, Russian History, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2009: pp. 219-253.

Tragediia sovetskoi derevni: kollektivizatsia i razkulachivanie; dokumenty i materialy, 1927-1939 [The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization; Documents and Materials, 1927-1939]. Seven-volume document collection from the five leading Moscow central archives, including the FSB Archive. Editor-in-chief of this project in collaboration with V. P. Danilov and Lynne Viola.

"The Rise and Fall of the Extraordinary Measures, January-June, 1928: Towards a Reassessment of the Onset of the Stalin Revolution," Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, No. 1504 (Jan. 2001), 57 pp.

Bel'skii Raion, 1937 g. [Belyi Raion, 1937] (Smolensk, Russia, SGPU Press, 1998).

Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1993), in collaboration with J. Arch Getty.

The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government (Princeton University Press, 1982). Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association, 1983.