Alfred J. Rieber
Professor
Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
University Research Professor, CEU
Building:
Nador u. 11 Room:
104 Phone number:
+36 1 327-3193 Qualifications:
Columbia University, Russian Institute, M.A. and certificate 1954; Ph.D. 1959
Colgate University, B.A. 1953, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, High Honors
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:
Fellowships and Awards
American Council of Learned Societies Exchange Fellow, 1966
Research Fellowships: American Philosophical Society, 1963; Guggeneim
fellow, 1965; National Endowment for the Humanities 1973, 1981; Ford
Foundation, 1984; National Council for Soviet and East European Studies
Grant, 1985-86; ACLS Fellow, 1985-86
Teaching Awards: Lindback Teaching Award, 1967; E. Harris Harbison
Award of Danforth Foundation Aard for Distinguished Teaching, 1968;
Professor of the Year (Teaching Award based on university wide student
election), Central European University 1997, 1998
IREX travel grants, 1990; 1993, 1995
Henry Allan Moe Prize of American Philosophical Society, 1985
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, 1992-93
Senior Research Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, Hilary Term 2000
Fellow,Collegium Budapest 2007-08
Professional Activities
University Research Professor, CEU (2008- Head, Department of History, CEU, (1995-1999);Member University Senate, CEU, (1995-2000);Alfred L. Cass Term Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, (1993-1995);Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, (1965-1993);Chairman, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania (1967-72; 1983-88)Associate Dean FAS, University of Pennsylvania (1975-77);Co-Director, Program for Assessing and Revitalizing the Social Sciences (Mellon Grant), 1987-92;Director, NEH Summer Institute, University of Pennsylvania, 1988
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Affiliations:
Academic/research topics:
Russia
Soviet foreign policy
Academic/Research Areas:
History and Medieval Studies Theses supervised by Alfred J. Rieber
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Not by Theory Alone: Economic and Institutional Change Throgh the Impact of German Historical School in Ottoman and Russian Empires Thesis author: Nil Birol Year of enrollment: 2007/2008 |
Publications
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"Stalin as Georgian : the formative years." In Stalin : a new history, edited by S. Davies and J. R. Harris, 18-44. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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"Stalin as foreign policy-maker : avoiding war, 1927-1953." In Stalin : a new history, edited by S. Davies and J. R. Harris, 140-158. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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"Meniaiushchiesia kontseptsii k konstruktsii frontira : sravnitelno-istoricheskii podhod." In Novaia imperskaia istoriia postsovetskogo prostranstva : sbornik statei, edited by I. V. Gerasimov, S. V. Glebov and A. P. Kaplunovskii, 199-222. Biblioteka zhurnala "Ab Imperio". Kazan: Tsentr issledovanii natsionalizma i imperii, 2004.
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"Zheleznye dorogi i ekonomicheskie razvitie : istoki sistemy Reiterna." In Stranitsy rossiiskoi istorii : problemy, sobytiia, liudi : sbornik stateii v chest Borisa Vasilevicha Ananicha, edited by R. S. Ganelin, 150-179. Saint-Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2003.
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"Izuchaia imperii." In Istoricheskie zapiski, edited by B. V. Ananich, 86-131. Vol. 6 (124). Moskva: Nauka, 2003.
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"Frontiers in History." In International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences, edited by N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes, 5812-5818. Vol. 9. New York: Elsevier Science, 2001.
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"Stalin’s Eurasian Foreign Policy : Limited Intervention." In Mesto Rossii v Evrazii : The place of Russia in Eurasia, edited by G. Szvák, 338-343. Vol. 9. Ruszisztikai könyvek 9. Budapest: Magyar Ruszisztikai Intézet, 2001.
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"Ustoichivye faktory rossiiskoi vneshnei politiki : popytka interpretatsii." In Amerikanskaia rusistika : vekhi istoriografii poslednykh let sovetskii period : antologiia, edited by M. David-Fox, 94-145. Samara: Izdatelstvo "Samarskii univbersitet", 2001.
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"Repressive population transfers in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe : a historical overview." In Forced migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1950, 1-27. London: Frank Cass, 2000.
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"The Marginality of Totalitarianism." In The paradoxes of unintended consequences, edited by R. Dahrendorf, Y. Elkana, A. Neier, W. Newton-Smith and I. Rév, 265-284. Budapest: CEU Press, 2000.
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"Izuchenie istorii Rossii v SShA." In Istoricheskie zapiski, edited by B. V. Ananich, 65-105. Vol. 3 (121). Moskva: Nauka, 2000.
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"Patronage and Professionalism : The Witte System." In Problemy vsemirnoi istorii : sbornik statei v chest A. A. Fursenko, edited by B. V. Ananich, 286-298. Saint-Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2000.
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"Preface." In Forced migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1950, vii. London: Frank Cass, 2000.
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"Triplex Confinium in comparative context." In Constructing border societies on the Triplex Confinium, edited by D. Roksandric and N. Stefanec, 13-28. Vol. 4. CEU History Department working paper series 4. Budapest: Central European University, 2000.
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"Sotsialnaia identifikatsiia i politicheskaia volia : russkoe dvorianstvo ot Petra I do 1861 g." In P.A. Zaionchkovskii, 1904-1983 gg. : stati, publikatsii i vospominaniia o nem, edited by L. G. Zahkarova, IU. S. Kukushkin and T. Emmons, 271-314. Moscoww: ROSSPEN, 1998.
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"In memoriam Péter Hanák." In The Garden and the Workshop : Disseminating Cultural History in East-Central Europe : In Memoriam Péter Hanák, edited by M. Turda, 22-24. Budapest: Central European University, 1998.
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"The reforming tradition in Russian and Soviet history : commentary." In Reform in modern Russian history : progress or cycle?, edited by T. Taranovsky and M. McInerny, 237-243. Woodrow Wilson Center series. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995.
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"Interest-Group Politics in the Era of the Great Reforms." In Russia's great reforms, 1855-1881, edited by B. Eklof, J. Bushnell and L. Zakharova, 58-83. Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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"Introduction." In A course in Russian history :the seventeenth century, edited by V. O. Kliuchevskii. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
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"The fragmented “middle ranks”." In Major problems in the history of imperial Russia, edited by J. Carcraft, 494-503. Major problems in European history series. Lexington: D. C. Heath, 1994.
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"The merchants' way of life." In Reinterpreting Russian history : readings, 860-1860s, edited by D. H. Kaiser and G. Marker, 328-333. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
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"Struggle over the Borderlands." In The legacy of history in Russia and the new states of Eurasia, edited by S. F. Starr, 61-89. Vol. 1. The international politics of Eurasia 1. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1994.
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"Historiography of Russian Foreign Policy." In Imperial Russian foreign policy, edited by H. Ragsdale, 360-443. Woodrow Wilson Center series. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993.
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"Persistent Factors in Russian Foreign Policy." In Imperial Russian foreign policy, edited by H. Ragsdale, 315-359. Woodrow Wilson Center series. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993.
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"Gruppovye interesy v borbe vokrug Velikikh reform." In Velikie reformy v Rossii, 1856-1874, edited by B. Eklof, J. Bushnell and L. Zakharova, 44-72. Moskva: Izdatelstvo Moskovskogo Universiteta, 1992.
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"Vstupitelnye zamechaniia sopredsedatelei." In Reformy ili revoliutsiia? : Rossiia 1861-1917 : materialy mezhdunarodnogo kollokviuma istorikov, edited by D. Geyer and V. S. Diakin, 264-268. Saint-Petersburg: Nauka, 1992.
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"The reforming tradition in Russian history." In Perestroika at the crossroads, edited by A. Z. Rubinstein and A. J. Rieber, 3-28. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1991.
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"Introduction." In Perestroika at the crossroads, edited by A. Z. Rubinstein and A. J. Rieber, vii-x. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1991.
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"The sedimentary society." In Between tsar and people : educated society and the quest for public identity in late imperial Russia, edited by E. W. Clowes, S. D. Kassow and J. L. West, 343-366. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
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"New introduction." In Pri dvore dvukh imperatov : vospominaniya, dnevnik, 1853-1882 / Anna Fedorovna Tiutcheva. Vol. 18. Memoir series 18. Cambridge, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1975.
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"Raison d'état : military." In Emancipation of the Russian serfs, edited by T. Emmons, 72-80. European problem studies. New York: Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1970.
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"Introduction." In The formation of the great Russian state : a study of Russian history in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, edited by A. E. Presniakov, 6-59. The Quadrangle series in Russian history. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970.
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"Introduction." In A course in Russian history : the seventeenth century, edited by V. O. Kliuchevskii, xiii-xl. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968.
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"Forced migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939 – 1950.", edited by A. J. Rieber. Ilford: Cass, 2000.
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"Elliott D. Mossman, 1942-2007." Slavic Review 66, no. 3 (2007): 599-600.
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"The Crack in the Plaster : Crisis in Romania and the Origins of the Cold War." Journal of Modern History 76, no. 1 (2004): 62-106.
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"Civil Wars in the Soviet Union, 1939-1947." Kritika : explorations in Russian and Eurasian history 4, no. 1 (2003): 129-162.
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"Alexander Vucinich (1914-2002)." Kritika : explorations in Russian and Eurasian history 3, no. 4 (2002): 755-757.
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"Stalin, Man of the Borderlands." American Historical Review 106, no. 5 (2001): 1651-1691.
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"From Reform to Empire : Russia’s ‘New’ Political History." Kritika : explorations in Russian and Eurasian history 2, no. 1 (2001): 261-268.
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"Preface." Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 16, no. 1-2 (2000): 5.
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"Repressive Population Transfers in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe : A Historical Overview." Journal of Communist Studies & Transition Politics 16, no. 1/2 (2000): 1-28.
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"Politics and technology in eighteenth century Russia." Science in context 8, no. 2 (1995): 341-368.
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"Introduction." Science in context 8, no. 2 (1995): 281-292.
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"Russian Imperialism : Popular, Emblematic, Ambiguous." Russian review 53, no. 3 (1994): 331-335.
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"The Rise of Engineers in Russia." Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique 31, no. 4 (1990): 539-568.
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"The Sedimentary Society." Russian History 16, no. 1 (1989): 353-376.
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"The three last pages." Tolstoy studies journal 2 (1989): 3-6.
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"Landed Property, State Authority, and Civil War." Slavic Review 47, no. 1 (1988): 29-38.
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"Petr Andreevich Zajonckovskij – 1983." Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 33, no. 2 (1985): 313-316.
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"Businessmen and Business Culture in Imperial Russia." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 128, no. 3 (1984): 238-243.
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"Bureaucratic Politics in Imperial Russia." Social Science History 2, no. 4 (1978): 399-413.
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"The Moscow entrepreneurial group : the emergence of a new form in autocratic politics : part 2." Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 25 (1977): 174-199.
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"Book review : Dissidents Contra Solzhenitsyn." Nation 225, no. 23 (1977): 727-729.
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"The Moscow entrepreneurial group : the emergence of a new form in autocratic politics : part 1." Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 25 (1977): 1-20.
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"Commentary." Newsletter of group for the use of psychology in history 4, no. 4 (1976): 28-35.
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"Political development without politics." Reviews in European history 1, no. 2 (1974): 196-202.
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"The formation of La Grande Société des Chemins de fer russes." Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 21 (1973): 375-391.
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"Alexander II : A Revisionist View." Journal of Modern History 43, no. 1 (1971): 42-58.
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"Creativity and control in the Soviet Union." TriQuarterly 2, no. 1 (1965): 65-74.
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"Communist Tactics in France, 1944-1953." Journal of international affairs 8, no. 1 (1954): 73-85.
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