Dr. Robert Johnson

Biography

Robert Johnson, Professor Emeritus, specialized in Imperial Russian Soviet History, has taught a wide range of courses on historical topics, particularly focusing on the Cold War. His research primarily concentrates on social and economic questions. He is the author of 'Peasant Proletarian: Moscow’s Working Class End Nineteenth Century' (1979) and co-author of 'Seam Allowance: Industrial Homework in Canada's Garment Industry' (1982). Johnson edited 'Half-Century Silence: 1937 Census USSR' (Russian Studies in History, Summer 1992). From 1989 to 2001, he served as Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto and was the Principal Investigator of the Stalin Era Research Archives Project, which received significant funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His collaborative research has focused on the population of the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s. Johnson has written on labor unrest, peasant family life, social and economic issues, and quantitative research methods. His recent publications include titles such as 'Quagmire Convenience; Chechen War Putin’s Presidency' (2005), 'In Stalin Archives' (2002), 'The Cold War Declassified' (2007), and various other works exploring post-Soviet Russia and related subjects. He is also a frequent commentator in news media on current developments in post-Soviet Russia and its neighboring states.

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