David  L. Hoffmann

Professor Hoffmann is a specialist in Russian and Soviet history, with a particular focus on the political, social, and cultural history of Stalinism. He is the author of Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941, which won the Ohio Academy of History award for best book in 1995. His most recent monograph, Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), analyzes Soviet official culture and the ideological and behavioral norms it was designed to instill. He is also the editor of Stalinism: The Essential Readings (Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), and co-editor of Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices (London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2000). He is currently completing a book entitled, Cultivating the Masses: The Modern Social State in Russia, 1914-1939, which places Soviet social policies in an international comparative context. Click here for c.v.