Robert Johnson (historian)

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Robert Johnson is a professor and chair at the University of Toronto.

Biography

Robert Johnson received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Career

Robert Johnson teaches

Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
.

From 1993 through 2001 he served as principal investigator of the

former Soviet Union. From 1989 to 2001 he served as director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto.[1]

Published works

  • Peasant and Proletarian: Moscow’s Working Class at the End of the Nineteenth Century (1979)
  • The Seam Allowance: Industrial Homework in Canada's Garment Industry, co-author (1982)
  • "A Half-Century of Silence: The 1937 Census of USSR", editor, Russian Studies in History, Summer 1992

References

  1. ^ http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~rjohnson/ Professor Robert Johnson's official UTM homepage