Ronald Grigor Suny
Ronald Grigor Suny is director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan, and Emeritus Professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago. He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, after beginning his career as an assistant professor at Oberlin College. He is a 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.Life
Suny was born in Philadelphia, graduated from Swarthmore College in 1962, and earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968. His fields of study are the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia; nationalism; ethnic conflict; the role of emotions in politics; South Caucasus; and Russian/Soviet historiography.
He is a grandson of the Armenian composer Grikor Mirzaian Suni.Selected publications
- The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution ;
- Armenia in the Twentieth Century ;
- The Making of the Georgian Nation ;
- Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History ;
- The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union ;
- The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States.
- "Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 73, No. 4, December 2001
- . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.
- . Études arméniennes contemporaines, 11, 125-134. 2018.
Editor
- Transcaucasia, Nationalism and Social Change: Essays in the History of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and
- The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents ;
- The Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 3: The Twentieth Century.
Coeditor
- Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History ;
- The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory: Visions and Revisions ;
- Making Workers Soviet: Power, Culture, and Identity ;
- Becoming National ;
- Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation ;
- A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin.
