JAMES HEINZEN
Professor
of History
(856)
256-4500, ext. 3989
Robinson
Hall, 2nd floor
EDUCATION
Ph.D. and M.A. in History,
B.A.
COURSES AND TEACHING INTERESTS
At Rowan, Professor Heinzen has taught courses in many aspects
of Russian and modern European history, including Russia to 1914, Russia and
the Soviet Union since 1914, History of the Cold War, Europe from 1914 to1945,
Europe since 1945, Jewish Holocaust, Western Civilization I and II, Senior
Seminar, and Historical Methods.
RESEARCH:
Professor Heinzen
has written two books and numerous scholarly articles about the political,
social and cultural developments in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1991.
He is particularly
interested in the postwar period of Soviet history. Professor Heinzen’s
forthcoming book, The Art of the Bribe:
Corruption, Politics, and Everyday Life in the time of Stalin (Yale
University Press), concerns corruption, bribery, politics, and everyday life in
the USSR in the time of Stalin. Research on this project has been supported by:
▫ The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
▫ The National
Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)
▫ The Archives of the Hoover Institution for War and Peace at
Stanford University (National Fellowship)
▫ The Open Society Archive of Central European University
(Budapest, Hungary)
▫ The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center
(Washington DC)
MAJOR SCHOLARLY
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
The
Art of the Bribe: Corruption, Politics, and Everyday Life in the time of
Stalin. Yale University Press, forthcoming (2015)
Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State
Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia. University of
Pittsburgh Press
(2004) (Paperback version issued 2009).
·
Selected as an American Council of Learned Societies
Humanities (ACLS) e-book as one of a collection of “works of major importance that remain vital to both scholars and
advanced students.”
Major Scholarly
Articles:
“Thirty Kilos of Pork: Cultural Brokers, Corruption, and ‘the
Bribe Trail’ in the Postwar Stalinist Soviet Union. Journal of
Social History, vol 46, no. 4 (Summer 2013).
“Коррупция и кампании против
взяточничества в период военного и послевоенного
сталинизма,1943–1953 гг.” (“Corruption and the Campaigns against Bribery in the
Period of
Wartime and
Postwar Stalinism, 1943-1953”), appeared in Russian historical journal, Noveishaia istoriia Rossii (Modern History of Russia), vol. 1, no. 1
(2011).
“Corruption among
Officials and Anticorruption Drives in the
Huskey, Russian
Officialdom from Alexander III to Putin (McMillan, 2009).
“The Art of the Bribe: Corruption and Everyday Practice in the Late
Stalinist
“A Campaign Spasm: Graft and the Limits of the ‘Campaign’
against Bribery after the Great Patriotic
War.” Chapter in Late
Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Development, edited
by Juliane Fürst (Routledge, 2006), 123-141.
“Informers and the State under Late Stalinism: Informant
Networks and Crimes against ‘Socialist Property,’
1940-1953.” Kritika: Explorations
in Russian History (Fall, 2007).
“The Prisoner’s Dilemma:
Corruption and Informants in the Gulag, Comparative
Economic Systems (June, 2005). Russian translation in Leonid Borodkin,
Paul Gregory, and Oleg
Khlevniuk,
eds., Ekonomika prinuditel’nogo truda (Rosspen Press, Moscow,
2005).
“Professional Identity and the Vision of the Modern Soviet
Countryside: Local Agricultural Specialists at the End of the
NEP,” in Cahiers du Monde Russe,
vol. 39, no. 1-2 (Winter, 1998).
“‘Peasants from the Plow’
to ‘Professors from the Plow’: the Culture of the Russian
People’s Commissariat of
Agriculture,
1921-29,” in Journal of Peasant Studies,
vol. 25, no. 3 (January, 1998).
“‘Alien’ Personnel in the
Proletarian Dictatorship, 1918-1929,” in Slavic Review, vol. 56, no. 1 (Spring,
1997).
Primary Sources in English for Soviet history More Primary Sources for Soviet History
Cold
War
International History Project Still More Primary Sources for Soviet History
Russian history resources Yet More Primary Sources
H-net
Russian history email discussion group
The
Face of Russia: Russian culture website