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Mark D. Steinberg (born June 8, 1953) is a historian, writer, and professor. He taught at Harvard University, Yale University, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from which he retired in 2021.
Mark D. Steinberg. Professor Emeritus. Department of History. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I have specialized for most of my career on the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly urban history, revolution, and social and cultural experience.
Mark Steinberg's research focuses on the city, revolutions, emotions, violence, space, moralities, and utopia. His books include Voices of Revolution, 1917 (Yale, 2001); Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925 (Cornell, 2002); Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia, ed. with Heather ...
Mark D. Steinberg explores the work of individuals he recognizes as utopians during the most dramatic period in Russian and Soviet history. It has long been a cliché to argue that Russian revolutionary movements have been inspired by varieties of 'utopian dreaming' – claims which, although not wrong, are too often used uncritically.
- Mark D. Steinberg
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- 2021
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May 3, 2017 · T1 - The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921. AU - Steinberg, Mark D. PY - 2017. Y1 - 2017. N2 - The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 is a new history of Russia's revolutionary era as a story of experience-of people making sense of history as it unfolded in their own lives and as they took part in making history themselves.
- Mark D. Steinberg
- 2017
Mark Steinberg masterfully unearths the utopian impulse in Russian history, showing how the dream of grasping that which lies just beyond reach motivated tsars as well as commissars, ordinary people alongside famed revolutionaries.
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Mark D. Steinberg sets the stage for this dramatic saga of revolution in a text that provides engrossing narrative and sensitive exploration of ideas and values and that draws on the whole range of archival and published documents.
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