Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Stuart D. Finkel
|Associate Professor
Associate Professor of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies
Affiliated Associate Professor of History
Stuart Finkel joined the Department of East European, Eurasian, & Russian Studies in 2018, after having taught for a number of years in the History Department at the University of Florida; he was not entirely new to Dartmouth, having previously taught as a visitor including courses on the Russian Revolution, Soviet history and culture, and the history of human rights. 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 (Oxford University Press, 2024), which details the origins of "political philanthropy" in the late nineteenth century, will be available in spring/summer 2024 (e-book available in May, print edition in July). The second volume in the larger project, tentatitively entitled Defending the Enemy: The Political Red Cross and Aid to Soviet Political Prisoners, will provide a detailed examination of the so-called "Political Red Cross," led by Ekaterina Peshkova, which lobbied on behalf of political prisoners and exiles from 1918 to 1937.
Contact
Reed, Room 206
HB 6085
Department(s)
Russian
Education
- Ph.D. Stanford University
- M.A. Stanford University
- B.A. Harvard College
Selected Publications
"'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.
"Intelligentsia Conceptions: Duty and Obshchestvennost' in War and Revolution," in Russia's Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-22, Book 3: National Disintegration and Reintegration, ed. Christopher Read, Peter Waldron, and Adele Lindenmeyr (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2018), p.267-95.
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.)