Donald J. Raleigh

Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor M.A. Indiana University, 1972 Ph.D. Indiana University, 1978

Research Interests

Professor Raleigh recently completed a book on the Russian Civil War entitled Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922, published by Princeton University Press, 2002. Among other issues, the project investigates the social and political relations (and divisions) created by revolutionaries; the development of new rituals of power and attempts to create a proletarian culture; and the discursive battle the Bolsheviks and their opponents fought in presenting rival versions of the revolutionary tale. By focusing on the vital interaction between social context and ideologically inspired policies, the study seeks to comprehend the nature of the revolutionary experience itself. He also edited a collection of essays entitled Provincial Landscapes: The Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-1953, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001, and a memoir, published in Russia, Zalozhnik proletariata, Saratov University Press, 2002.

Other major publications are Revolution on the Volga: 1917 in Saratov (1986); A Russian Civil War Diary: Alexis Babine in Saratov (1988); and a collection of his articles published in Russia. He has also translated or edited seven other books and served as associate editor of the recently published (2004) four-volume "Encyclopedia of Russian History."

Professor Raleigh is currently writing a book entitled "Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of the Class of '67." As part of this investigation, he prepared for classroom use a collection of translated life-story interviews published by Indiana University Press in 2006, "Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives."

View a web version of Prof. Raleigh's curriculum vitae (in PDF).

Graduate Students Advised by Donald J. Raleigh

• Emily Baran
• Marko Dumančić
• Edward Geist
• Aaron Hale-Dorrell
• Adrianne Nolan
• Jenifer Parks
• Michael Paulauskas
• Gleb Tsipursky

Graduate Students Advised by Donald J. Raleigh Enrolled in UNCi Interdisciplinary M.A. Program in Russian Studies

• Nancy Bland
• Jeff Long

Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)

For current course listings, consult the

• HIST 140 -- The Contemporary World in Historical Perspective: The World Since 1945
• HIST 162 -- Russia since 1861
• HIST 264 -- Women in Russian and Soviet History, 1860-Present
• HIST 391 -- Gorbachev's Russia
• HIST 391 -- Stalinism in Historical Perspective
• HIST 391 -- Soviet Baby Boomers
• HIST 477 -- Revolution in Russia, 1900-1930
• HIST 478 -- Stalin and After: History of the Soviet Union, 1929-Present
• HIST 782 -- Readings in Soviet History
• HIST 783 -- Readings in Russian and East European History
• HIST 925 -- Seminar in Russian History; see also Prof. Raleigh's Research Guide

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