Department of History

Richard Stites, PhD Harvard, Professor of History, came to Georgetown University in 1977 and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in modern Russian cultural and social history. He is
the author of The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 (Princeton University Press, 1978, 2d ed. 1991); Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian
Vision and Social Experiment in the Russian Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1989, 2d ed. 1991), the Wayne S. Vucinich 1989 prize volume of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies; Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1992). His most recent edited book is Culture and Entertainment in
Wartime Russia, 1941-1945 (Indiana University Press, 1995). His awards have included the Russian Research Center at Harvard, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Guggenheim, Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, National Endowment
for the Humanities, and numerous IREX exchanges with Russia. Prof. Stites was Fulbright Professor at the University of Helsinki in 1995 and has also taught in Russia, Denmark, and Germany.