Boris Gorshkov

OFFICE: Thach 333
PHONE: (334) 844-6642
EMAIL: gorshbb@auburn.edu
WEBPAGE: http://www.auburn.edu/~gorshbb/

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 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).

.

Last updated Oct. 19, 2007.
To submit updates and revisions to a biographical profile or to report broken links, please contact the Webmaster.