Peter Isaac Holquist
Peter Holquist is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. His current
project is a monograph-length study, Making the Russian Revolution: State Practices and
the New-Style Politics in the Don Territory during Russia’s Deluge, 1914-1921.
He received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 1995. From 1995-6, he was
a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow at the Kennan Institute.
His publications include:
 | "‘To Remove and to Exterminate Totally’: Population Statistics and
Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia" in Empire and Nation in
the USSR, eds. Terry Martin and Ronald Suny (forthcoming). |
| "What’s So Revolutionary About the Russian Revolution?: Political Practice and
the New-Style Politics, 1914-1921" in New Approaches to Russian History, eds.
David Hoffmann and Yanni Kotsonis (New York: Macmillan, forthcoming). |
| "State Violence as Technique: the Logic of Violence in Soviet Totalitarianism"
in Modernity and Population Management, ed. Amir Weiner (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, forthcoming). |
| "From Estate to Ethnos: the Changing Nature of Cossack Identity in the Twentieth
Century" in Russia at a Crossroads: Historical Memory and Political Practice (London:
Cass, 1998). |
| "‘Information is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work’: Bolshevik Surveillance
in its Pan-European Perspective," Journal of Modern History 69 (1997):
415-450. |
| "Anti-Soviet svodki from the Civil War: Surveillance as a Shared Feature of
Russian Political Culture," Russian Review 56:3 (1997): 445-50. |
| "‘Conduct Merciless, Mass Terror’: Decossackization on the Don,
1919," Cahiers du Monde russe 38:1-2 (1997): 127-62. |
| "The Primacy of Politics: Ideology and Modern Political Practices in the Russian
Revolution," Cornell Institute for European Studies Working Paper no. 96.2.
(1996). |
| "Roundtable: Current Issues in the Cossack Movement," [in Russian] Sotsiologicheskie
issledovaniia [Sociological Studies] (Moscow), 1992, no. 9. |