Michael G. Smith
Professor, Russian History, Purdue University
(PhD Georgetown University, 1991)
Books
Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of EarlySpaceflight (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014), 448pages.
Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953 (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter Publishers, 1998), in its series “Contributions to the Sociology of Language,” 250 pages.
Editions
Co-editor with Isaiah Gruber and Sandra Pujals, of Russia beyond the Traditional Boundaries: Essays in Honor of David M. Goldfrank, in Russian History 41/1-2 (2014): double issue with sixteen articles.
Co-editor with A.I. Zevelev et al., Istoriianatsional’nykhpoliticheskikhpartiirossii / A History
of the National Political Parties of Russia (Moscow: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 1997).
Chapters
“An Empire of Substitutions: The Language Factor in the Russian Revolution,” in The Battle for Ukrainian: A Comparative Perspective, ed. Michael S. Flier, Andrea Graziosi, and Lubomyr A. Hajda (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming in 2016).
“The Hegemony of Content: Russian as a Language of State Assimilation in the USSR,” in Kampf um Wort und Schrift:Russifizierung in Osteuropaim 19.-20. Jahrhundert, ed. ZaurGasimov (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck, 2012): 193-208.
“The Tenacity of Form: Language, Nation, Stalin,” in Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR, 1917-1938, ed. C. Brandist and K. Chown (London: Anthem Press, 2010): 105-122.
“Stalin's Martyrs: The Tragic Romance of the Russian Revolution,” in Redefining Stalinism, ed. Harold Shukman (London: Frank Cass, 2003): 95-126 [reprint below].
“Pamiat’ obutratakhiAzerbaidzhanskoeobshchestvo / Traumatic Loss and Azerbaijani National Memory,” in AzerbaidzhaniRossiia: obshchestvaigosudarstva / Azerbaijan and Russia: Society and State, ed. Dmitrii Furman (Moscow: Andrei Sakharov Institute, 2001): 88-117. Archived at:
“The Eurasian Imperative in Early Soviet Language Planning: Russian Linguists at the Service of the Nationalities,” in Beyond Sovietology: Essays in History and Politics, ed. Susan G. Solomon (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1993): 159-91.
“Ethnicity and Culture,” in The Soviet Union, ed. Daniel C. Diller (Washington, D. C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1990): 129-149.
Articles
“Power and Violence in the Russian Revolution: The March Events and Baku Commune of 1918,” in Russian History 41/1-2 (2014): 197-210.
“Cosmic Plots in Early Soviet Culture: Flights of Fancy to the Moon and Mars,” in Canadian-American Slavic Studies 47 (2013): 170-199.
“Stalin’s Martyrs: The Tragic Romance of the Russian Revolution,” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 4/1 (2003): 95-126 [reprint above].
“The Russian Revolution as National Revolution: Tragic Deaths and Rituals of Remembrance in Muslim Azerbaijan, 1905-1920,” Jahrbücher fur Geschichte OstEuropas49/3 (2001): 363-388.
“Anatomy of a Rumour: Murder Scandal, the Musavat Party and Narratives of the Russian Revolution in Baku, 1917-20,” Journal of Contemporary History 36/2 (2001): 211-240.
“Cinema for the ‘Soviet East’: National Fact and Revolutionary Fiction in Early Azerbaijani Film,” Slavic Review 56/4 (Winter 1997): 645-678. Reprinted in Khazar: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 1/3 (1998), Khazar University (Baku, Azerbaijan).
“Gramsci in the Mirror of Italian Fascism: Mussolini, Gentile, and Spirito,” Italian Quarterly 31 (Winter-Spring 1990): 57-80.
“Marx, Technocracy and the Corporatist Ethos,” Studies in Soviet Thought 36 (1988): 233-250.
Various
“NarodnyiKomissariatpodelamNatsional’nostei / The People’s Commissariat for Nationality
Affairs,” in The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russia, Soviet, and Eurasian
History, #16, ed. Bruce Adams, Edward Lazzerini, and George Rhyne (Gulf Breeze, Florida:
Academic International Press, 2005): pp. 183-187.
“PartiiaMusavatiformirovanieAzerbaidzhanskogosotsialno-demokraticheskogo
natsionalizma / The Musavat Party and the Formation of Azerbaijani Social-Democratic Nationalism,” in Istoriianatsional’nykhpoliticheskikhpartiirossii/ A History of the National Political Parties of Russia (Moscow: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 1997): 164-68.
“The Archeology of Empire in Baku,” Surviving Together: A Quarterly on Grassroots Cooperation in Eurasia 14/4 (Winter 1996): 47-49.
“Tongue Ties: a Brief Historical Survey of Language Politics in the USSR” and “Finding the Right Words: the Status of the Native Language in Azerbaijan,” Surviving Together: A Quarterly on Grassroots Cooperation in Eurasia 13/1 (Spring 1995): 57-60.
“KulturaRevolucioenSovetunio: LingvajReformojkaj Esperanto, 1917-1937,” web publication from the conference, “SociajAspektoj de la Esperanto Movado,” Banja Luka, Yugoslavia (20-21 June 1987). Archived at:
“For Rationalization of Language: the Bolshevik Experience with Esperanto,” in The Idea of
Universal Language, eds. Humphrey Tonkin and Karen Johnson-Weiner (New York: Center for Research of World Language Problems, 1986): 69-76.