Academic Positions

Chair, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, 2002-

Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, 2000-

Professor of History, Semester at Sea, Fall 2003

Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, 1985-2000

Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of   Pittsburgh, 1989-1991

Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, 1979-1985

Instructor of History, Boston College, 1976-1979

Publications

Enemies Within the Gates? The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-39
(Yale University Press, 2001). (To view translations of some documents from this book, see http://www.yale.edu/annals/Chase/Documents/list_of_documents.htm)

Co-Editor, Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Ekonomiki.  Putevoditel‘. Tom 1. (Guide to the Russian State Archive of the Economy.  Vol. 1.)  (with Jeffrey Burds, E.A. Tiurina, S.V. Pasolova, A.K. Sokolov) (Moscow 1994)

Workers, Society and the Soviet State:  Labor and Life in Moscow, 1918-1929, (University of Illinois Press, Studies of the W. Averell Harriman Institute, 1987, 1990).

"Stalin as Producer: The Moscow Show Trials and the Construction of Mortal Threats,"  in Sarah Davies and James Harris, eds., Stalin: A New History (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 226-248.

"The Socialist Experiment," in Gordon Martel, ed., A Companion to European History, 1900-1945 (Blackwell, 2006), 292-308.

"The Comintern," in James Millar, ed., Encyclopedia of Russia History (Macmillan, forthcoming).

"World Revolution," in James Millar, ed., Encyclopedia of Russia History (Macmillan, forthcoming).

"Karl Radek," in James Millar, ed., Encyclopedia of Russia History (Macmillan, forthcoming).

"Daily Life in Moscow, 1921-1929," in Richard M. Golden, The Social  Dimension of Western Civilization. Vol. 2, Fourth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999, 2002), 272-288. 

"Trotskii v Mekcike.  K istorii ero neglasnykh kontaktov s pravitel'stvom SShA (1937-1940)" ("Trotsky in Mexico: Toward a History of His Informal Contacts with the U.S. Government, 1937-1940"), Otechestvennaia istoriia, 4 (July/August 1995), 76-102.

"Researcher’s Introduction to RGAE," Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Ekonomiki.  Putevoditel‘  Tom 1.  (Moscow 1994)

"Stalinism," Encyclopedia of Social History, Peter Stearns, ed., (Greenwood Press, 1994), 714-717.

"El Extraño Caso de Diego Rivera y el Departmento de Estado" ("The Strange Case of Diego Rivera and the U.S. State Department"), Zona Abierta (Suplemento de Economica, Politica y Sociedad del Financiero)  II, 61 (Noviembre 1993).

"Patterns of Repression among the Soviet Elite in the Late 1930s;  A Biographical Approach" (with J. Arch Getty), in J. Arch Getty and Roberta Manning, eds., Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives, (Cambridge University Press, 1993), 225-246.

"Workers in Soviet Russia, 1917-1921," Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 55 (1993).

"The Workers' and Peasants' Alliance," Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 55, (1993).

"Social History and Revisionism of the Stalinist Era," in Alexander Dallin and Bertrand M. Patenaude, eds., Stalin and Stalinism (Garland, 1992)

"L’Irrealisable Smycka," ("The Illusive Smychka"), Revue des Etudes Slaves, LXIV, 1 (1992), 53-74.

"The Soviet Bureaucracy in 1935: A Socio-Political Profile," (with J. Arch Getty) in John W. Strong, ed., Essays on Revolutionary Culture and Stalinism, (Slavica, 1990), 192-223.

"Voluntarism, Mobilization and Coercion: Subbotniki, 1919-1921," Soviet       Studies, 41, 1 (1989), 111-128.

"Worktime and Industrialization in the USSR, 1917-1941," (with Lewis            Siegelbaum) in Gary Cross, ed., Worktime and Industrialization.  An           International History, (Temple University Press, 1989), 183-216.

"Demography," in George Jackson and Robert Devlin, ed., Dictionary of the     Russian Revolution, (Greenwood Press, 1989).

"Social History and Revisionism of the Stalinist Era," Russian Review, 46 (1987), 382-385.

"Workers’ Control and Socialist Democracy:  A Review Essay," Science and Society, 50, 2 (1986), 226-238.

"The Dialectics of Production Meetings, 1923-1929," Russian History, 13, 2-3 (1986), 149-186.

"Towards an Understanding of Soviet Labor:  A Review Essay," International Labor and Working Class History, (Spring 1982), 42-51.

"The Moscow Bolshevik Cadres of 1917:  A Prosopographic Analysis," (with J. Arch Getty) Russian History, 5, 1 (1978), 84-105.

"The Moscow Party Elite of 1917 in the Great Purges," (with J. Arch Getty),     Russian History, 5, 1 (1978), 106-115.

Other Academic Research Projects

Co-Director, The Russian Archive Series, 1991-2001.  A Russian-American collaborative project devoted to the publication of guides to Russian archives.  The Series published twelve guides, which are the definitive finding aids.  They include the first complete, up-to-date guides to the following central Russian archives:  Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History (the former Central Party Archive, 1 vol.), State Archive of the Russian Federation (the central state historical archive, 4 vols.), Russian State Archive of the Economy (the central economic archive, 2 vols.).  Additional guides to special archive collections include the first guide to Russian archive materials on the history of Russian Jewry and the 5 vol. Osobye papki (Special Files) series.  The latter are guides to the materials sent by Soviet security organs to Stalin, Molotov, Khrushchev and the CPSU Central Committee, and Beria (2 vols).  The Russian Archive Series was funded by grants from the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, the Social Science Research Council, the International Research and Exchanges Board, and the Volkswagen Foundation. 

Director, The Russian Publications Project, 1991-2002.   The project was devoted to the dissemination of guides to Russian archives,  and Russian journals and monographs dedicated to the publication of archival documents. 

Co-Director, The Soviet Data Bank, 1981-1992.  A computerized data archive of biographical and political histories of members of the  Soviet bureaucracy.  Data include information from 1870s to 1980s. 

Education

Ph. D., Russian and Modern European History, Boston College, 1979 (with      highest distinction).

M.A., Russian Studies, Boston College, 1973 (with highest distinction).

B.A., History, Lafayette, College, 1969.

Universidad de Madrid, 1967.

Awards, Fellowships, Grants

Teaching Award:
Faculty Honor Roll, College of Arts and Sciences, 2001
Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 1984.

Fellowships and Research Grants:

Research Expense Grant (Type II), "Comintern Politics and the Case of Bela     Kun," Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 1996.

Co-principal Investigator, “The Russian Archive Project,” National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1995. (with J. Burds, G. Freeze, A. Getty), $49,500.

Hewlett Research Fellowship, UCIS University of Pittsburgh, 1993.

Co-principal Investigator, “The Russian Archive Project,” National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1992. (with J. Burds, G. Freeze, A. Getty), $75,000.

Social Science Research Council Grant (for The Russian Archive Project), 1991. (with G. Freeze, J. Burds, A. Getty), $5,000.

U. S. Department of Education, National Resource Center Grant (Title VI) to    University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1991, $204,384 for the first year of a three-year grant.

American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1990.

International Research and Exchanges Board Grant, 1990.

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Short-term Research Grant,      1990.

Principal Investigator, “The Soviet Data Bank Project,” National Council for      Soviet and East European Research, 1985-1986, $76,288.

Principal Investigator, “The Soviet Data Bank Project,” National Endowment for the Humanities (Research Tools and Materials Division), 1984-1985, $33,382.

Principal Investigator, “The Soviet Data Bank Project,” Resources for the          Eighties Fund, 1984-1985, $33,382.

Principal Investigator, “The Soviet Data Bank Project,” National Council for      Soviet and East European Research, 1983-1984, $20,000.

Principal Investigator, “The Soviet Data Bank Project,” National Endowment    for the Humanities (Research Tools and Materials Division), 1983-1984,           $81,462.

Senior Fellow, W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, Columbia University, 1982.

Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., American Council of   Learned Societies, 1981.

Professional Activities

Editorial:

Co-Editor, The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, 1982-

Editorial Board Member, Russkoe proshloe (St. Petersburg, Russia) 1991-

Editorial Board Member, Annals of Communism Series, Yale University Press, 1993-

Selected Presentations:

"The Moscow Show Trials and the Construction of Mortal Threats,"  Conference on Stalin: Power, Policy, and Political Values, University of Durham, UK, January 2003.

"The Origins of the Polish Operation and the Rise of Soviet Xenophobia, 1929-1938," AAASS Convention, Pittsburgh, 2002.

"Imagining and Constructing Enemies during the Stalinist 1930s," AAASS Convention, Pittsburgh, 2002.

"Foreign Comrades as Foreign Threats:  The Verification of Foreigners and the Rise of Xenophobia in the USSR, 1934-1938," International Conference on the Stalin Period: New Ideas, New Conversations, 1998

"Fear, Loathing and Scapegoating within the Comintern, 1934-1938: A Social Psychological Exploration," AAASS Convention, Seattle, 1997

"Be Careful What You Wish For: The Comintern and the Mexican Communist Party, 1935-1940," Latin American Studies Association International Convention, 1997

"'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...'  Just Not That             Damned Trotsky!  Leon Trotsky's Quest for a U.S. Visa, 1933-1940,"         American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, 1996

"Rethinking State-Society Relations in the USSR, 1921-1929," American          Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, 1994

"Leon Trotsky’s ‘Popular Front’ and Private Diplomacy in America, 1937-1940," Boston College, April 1992

"Problems in Soviet History," Historical Faculty, Leningrad State University,      December 1990.

"Constructing and Utilizing Machine-readable Data Archives," Historical            Faculty, Moscow State University, December 1990.

"Class Solidarity and Class Division, Soviet Workers in the 1920s," Penn State Social History Colloquium Series on International Perspectives on Labor History, April 1989.

"Incidence of the Great Purges on the Soviet Elite," Annual Meeting of the         American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 1988.

"Industrial and Economic Personnel in the 1930s," National Seminar of the        Social History of Russia in the Twentieth Century, April 1988.

"‘Sociological’ Studies of the Working Class in the 1920s,"  National Seminar of the Social History of Russia in the Twentieth Century, October 1986

"Implications of the Disintegration of the Proletariat," New York Labor             Seminar, Columbia University, January 27, 1986.

"The Soviet Bureaucracy in 1935:  A Socio-Political Profile," Third World        Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, November, 1985.

"Moscow Workers during the Transition to NEP," National Seminar of the Social History of Russia in the Twentieth Century, October 1984.

"The Dialectics of the Drive for Productivity, 1921-1929," Annual Meeting of    the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, October 1982.

"Rural-Urban Migration and the Urban Crisis of NEP," New England Slavic      Association Conference, May 1982.

"Revolutionary Enthusiasm and the Disintegration of Moscow, 1918-1921,"      Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, September 1981.

"Empty Stomachs and Revolutionary Enthusiasm," Midwest Slavic Association Conference, April 1981.

"Constructivism in the Soviet Union," Conference on Constructivism and           Futurism, University of Pittsburgh, February 1980.

"The Revolution and Pre-revolution in Moscow," New England Slavic Association Conference, April 1977.

"The Moscow Bolshevik Cadres of 1917:  A Prosopograhic Analysis," New     England Slavic Association Conference, April-May 1976.

Commentator:  AAASS, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001; The Making of the Soviet Working Class Conference, 1990; Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, 1983; National Seminar on Russian Social History, 1983; Duquesne University History Forum, 1981, 1982.

Other:

Member, Bibliography and Documentation Committee, American

Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1998-2001

Member, Executive Committee, Mid-Atlantic Slavic Association, 1994-97.

Historical Consultant to “Perestroika from Below,” a documentary film of the     1989 Donetsk miners strike in the USSR.

Conference Organizer, “Restructuring USA/USSR,” a conference of Soviet and American scholars and labor activists to discuss problems of oral history and historical documentary films, and to plan a sequel to “Perestroika from Below,” University of Pittsburgh, February 1991.

Historical Consultant to the Pittsburgh-Donetsk Oral History Project which        produces video-taped oral histories of American and Soviet steel workers and coal miners.

Social Science Research Council, Post-doctoral Fellowship Committee, 1989-1991.

Courses Taught

Soviet Russia, 1917-1991
Russian Revolution, 1890-1921
USSR, 1918-1932
Stalin
Russian and Soviet Cities, 1860-1990
Stalin and Western Historians (University Honors Seminar)
Writing Seminar for History Majors
History Honors Seminar: Comparative Witch Hunts
Comparative Witch Hunts
World Cities/Comparative Urban Systems
The West and the World
World Cities in Historical Perspective

Comparative Political Cultures, graduate seminar
Comparative Witch Hunts, graduate seminar
European Research Seminar, graduate seminar
Readings in Soviet History, graduate seminar
Soviet History Research Seminar, graduate seminar
Whose Socialism? Whose Enemies?, graduate seminar on 20th century socialism
Russian Peasants, 1850-1914, graduate seminar
Comparative Labor, graduate seminar
Graduate Writing Seminar
Dissertation Research Seminar

Selected University Service

Member, Semester at Sea, Academic Advisory Committee, 2003-

Member, Arts & Science Council, 2002-2003

Acting Chair, Department of History, spring 1999

Associate Chairman, Department of History, 1994-2001

Chair, University Center for International Studies’ Committee to Evaluate

the Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1997-1998

Member, Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, 1985, 1995

Member, University Video Production Committee, 1989-1991.

Member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate Council, 1985-1987.

Committee Member, Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1979-

Assistant Chairman, Department of History, 1979-1981, 1984-1985.

University Honors College Advisory Board, 1980-1982, 1998-2002

Member, Academic Integrity Board, 2002-