Department of History

Boris Gorshkov (Auburn PhD, 2006, Auburn MA, 1999) completed his dissertation on child labor in imperial Russian industries in May 2006. His MA thesis was on the topic of "The Peasantry and the Development of the Textile Industry in Pre-Reform Central Russia, 1800-1861."

From 2004 to 2006 he taught as a temporary faculty member in the Department of History and Philosophy at Kennesaw State University. His book, A Life under Russian Serfdom: Memoirs of Savva Purlevskii, was published in 2005 by Central European University Press. His newest book, Russia's Factory Children, Society, and the State, 1800-1917, is forthcoming in 2009 from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

His article "Serfs on the Move: Peasant Seasonal Migration in Pre-Reform Russia, 1800-1861" appeared in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History no. 1 (Fall 2000): 627-656. An additional article, "Democratizing Habermas: Peasant Public Sphere in Pre-Reform Russia" appeared in a special issue of Russian History/Histoire Russe (Fall 2004). Most recently, an article entitled "Towards a Comprehensive Law: Tsarist Factory Labor Legislation in European Context, 1830-1914" appeared in the essay collection Russia in the European Context, 1789-1914: A Member of the Family (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2005).

• 2006 PhD, Auburn University

Books

• Russia's Factory Children, Society, and the State, 1800-1917 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009)
• A Life Under Russian Serfdom: The Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-68 (Central European University Press, 2005)

Articles

• "Teaching Modern Russian History in European and Global Context," NewsNet: News of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 49 (March 2009).
• "Child Labor in Imperial Russia," in G.K. Lieten and Elise Nerveen Meerkerk, Child Labour's Global Pas (Peter Lang Publishers, 2009)
• "History of Child Labor in Imperial Russia," in Hugh D. Hindman, ed., Child Labor World Atlas: a Reference Encyclopedia (M.E. Sharp, 2008)
• "Debating 'Backwardness' in Russian History," NewsNet: News of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 47 (March 2007): 10-27
• "Serfs, Emancipation of," in John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds., Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006)
• "Child Labor," "Children's Commission," "Cottage Industry," and "Serfdom: Eastern Europe," all in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History Vol. 5 (Academic International Press, 2005)
• "Toward a Comprehensive Law: Tsarist Factory Labor Legislation in European Context, 1830-1914," in Susan P. McCaffray and Michael S. Melancon, eds., Russians Envision their Place in Europe, 1789-1914: A Member of the Family (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2005)
• "Democratizing Habermas: Peasant Public Sphere in Pre-Reform Russia," in a special issue of Russian History/Histoire Russe (Fall 2004)
• "Factory Children: An Overview of Child Industrial Labor and Laws in Imperial Russia, 1840-1914," in Michael Melancon, Alice K. Pate, eds., New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Imperial Russia (Slavica Publishers, 2002), 9-33
• "Serfs on the Move: Peasant Seasonal Migration in Pre-Reform Russia, 1800-61," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (Fall 2000): 627-56
• Book review: Wright, Patrick, The Iron Curtain: From Stage To Cold War, Oxford University Press, 2007, in The Historian, 2009
• Book review: Vlast' i obchshestvennoe dvizhenie v Rossii imperskogo perioda, M. D. Karpachev, ed. in chief, M. D. Dolbilov, in Slavic Review, Spring 2009.

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