Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Stuart D. Finkel
|Associate Professor
Chair, Department of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies
Associate Professor of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies
Affiliated Associate Professor of History
Stuart Finkel is a historian and Chair of the Department of East European, Eurasian, & Russian Studies. He teachs courses on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, the history of human rights, and related subjects. He is currently working on a multi-volume project surveying the long, complex history of aid to political prisoners & exiles in Russia and the Soviet Union, critically engaging with the burgeoning scholarship on the origins and genesis of international humanitarianism & human rights. The first book, Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia which details the origins of "political philanthropy" in the late nineteenth century, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.
Contact
Reed, Room 206
HB 6085
Education
- Ph.D. Stanford University
- M.A. Stanford University
- B.A. Harvard College
Selected Publications
Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2024). [E-book access for those with library/institutional subscriptions.]
"'I Reserve the Right to Criticize My Friends': The International Committee for Political Prisoners and its Letters from Russian Prisons," International Review of Social History 68, no. 3 (December 2023): 453-81.
"Philanthropy, Politics, and Public Action: Ekaterina Peshkova in Wartime and Revolution," in Women and Gender in Russia's Great War and Revolution, ed. Adele Lindenmeyr and Melissa K. Stockdale (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2022), p.269-89.
"The 'Political Red Cross' and the Genealogy of Rights Discourse in Revolutionary Russia," The Journal of Modern History 89, no. 1 (March 2017): 79-118.
Works In Progress
Defending the Enemy: The Political Red Cross and Aid to Soviet Political Prisoners
(Scholarly monograph, estimated date of completion 2027.)The Many Lives of Ekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova: Towards a Biography of a Humanitarian and Activist.
(Planned scholarly monograph, estimated date of completion 2027.)