Thomas C. Owen

Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1973
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
tcowen1@verizon.net
617.661.2954

Preferred Mailing Address:
950 Massachusetts Avenue, Apt. 414
Cambridge, MA 02139

Research Interests
Russian social, economic, and business history

Current Projects
“Economic Cycles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Statistics, Early Soviet Theory, and Economic Policy, 1850-1930”

Selected Publications
“Industrialization and Capitalism.” In A Companion to Russian History, 210-24. Edited by Abbott Gleason. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

“The Death of a Soviet Science: Sergei Pervushin and Economic Cycles in Russia, 1850-1930.” The Russian Review 68, no. 2 (Apr. 2009): 221-39.

“Chukchi Gold: American Enterprise and Russian Xenophobia in the Northeastern Siberia Company.” Pacific Historical Review 77, no. 1 (Feb. 2008): 49-85. 

Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age. Harvard University Press, 2005.

“Capitalism in Russia,” “Guilds,” “Merchants,” “Russian Corporation.”  In The Encyclopedia of Russian History.  Edited by James L. Millar. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.

Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995.