Roberta T. Manning

Roberta T. Manning
Born (1940-01-24) January 24, 1940
Austin, Texas, U.S.
DiedJanuary 3, 2018(2018-01-03) (aged 77)
Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Children2
Awards
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Russian provincial gentry in revolution and counterrevolution, 1905-07 (1975)
Academic work
DisciplineSoviet history
InstitutionsBoston College

Roberta Thompson Manning[1] (January 24, 1940 – January 3, 2018) was an American historian. Specializing in the history and politics of the USSR, she won the 1983 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for her book The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia and was a 1988 Guggenheim Fellow. She worked as a professor at Boston College for almost four decades.

Biography

Manning was born on January 24, 1940, in Austin, Texas,[1] daughter of Lucille Luby and Robert B. Thompson, and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas.[2] She attended Rice University, where she got a BA in 1962, and Columbia University, where she got an MA in 1967 and a PhD in 1975.[1] Her doctoral dissertation was The Russian provincial gentry in revolution and counterrevolution, 1905-07.[3] She was a 1976 Harvard Russian Research Center Research fellow and a 1977-1978 Russian Institute Fellow, as well as a 1983-1984 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.[1]

After serving as an acting assistant professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, Manning joined Boston College in 1975.[1] She was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor in 1981,[1] eventually becoming full professor.[4] In 2013, she retired from Boston College.[4]

Manning specialized in the history and politics of the USSR.[4] She won the 1983 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for her book The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia.[5] In 1988, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[6] "for a study of politics and society in the Soviet countryside, 1935-1941".[1] She co-edited the 1993 essay volume Stalinist Terror.[7] She led the multinational research team behind the multi-volume set The Tragedy of the Soviet Village.[7] She also appeared as a media expert on Russian politics before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union.[7]

Manning died on January 3, 2018, in her home in Newton, Massachusetts,[4] following years of Alzheimer's disease.[2] She was 77.[4] She had two daughters and three grandsons.[7]

Bibliography

  • The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia (1983)[a]
  • (ed. with J. Arch Getty) Stalinist Terror (1993)[b]

Notes

  1. ^ Reviews of this book: [8][9][10][11][12][13]
  2. ^ Reviews of this book: [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1989. p. 76.
  2. ^ a b "Roberta Manning Obituary (1940 - 2018) - Newton Highlands, MA - The Newton Tab". Legacy.com. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  3. ^ Manning, Roberta Thompson (1975). The Russian provincial gentry in revolution and counterrevolution, 1905-07 (PhD thesis). Columbia University. OCLC 503171481.
  4. ^ a b c d e "In Memoriam: Roberta Manning, 1940-2018". Women In Academia Report. January 22, 2018. Archived from the original on November 2, 2024. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  5. ^ "Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History". American Historical Association. Archived from the original on May 21, 2025. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  6. ^ "Roberta T. Manning". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on October 4, 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2025.
  7. ^ a b c d "In Memoriam: Roberta Manning". Boston College. Archived from the original on June 24, 2025. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  8. ^ Eley, Geoff (1986). "Review of The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government". Science & Society. 50 (1): 114–117. doi:10.1177/003682378605000111. ISSN 0036-8237. JSTOR 40402691.
  9. ^ Lindenmeyr, Adele (1984). "Review of The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government". Journal of Social History. 17 (4): 742–744. doi:10.1353/jsh/17.4.742. ISSN 0022-4529. JSTOR 3787405.
  10. ^ Perrie, Maureen (1984). "Review of The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government". Theory and Society. 13 (2): 271–274. ISSN 0304-2421. JSTOR 657367.
  11. ^ Ransel, David L. (1984). "Review of The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 14 (4): 854–856. doi:10.2307/203478. ISSN 0022-1953. JSTOR 203478.
  12. ^ Suny, Ronald Grigor; Robbins, Richard G. (1989). "Rehabilitating Tsarism: The Imperial Russian State and Its Historians. A Review Article". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 31 (1): 168–179. doi:10.1017/S0010417500015711. ISSN 0010-4175. JSTOR 178799.
  13. ^ Taranovski, Theodore (1988). "Nobility in the Russian Empire: Some Problems of Definition and Interpretation". Slavic Review. 47 (2): 314–318. doi:10.2307/2498471. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2498471.
  14. ^ Aves, Jonathan (1995). "Review of Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives". The Slavonic and East European Review. 73 (1): 148–149. ISSN 0037-6795. JSTOR 4211742.
  15. ^ Baberowski, Jörg (1995). "Review of Stalinist Terror. New Perspectives". Historische Zeitschrift. 261 (1): 300–301. ISSN 0018-2613. JSTOR 27630256.
  16. ^ Benvenuti, Francesco (1994). "Review of Stalinist Terror. New Perspectives". Europe-Asia Studies. 46 (3): 548–550. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 152826.
  17. ^ Filtzer, Donald (1994). "Review of Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives". Social History. 19 (3): 421–424. ISSN 0307-1022. JSTOR 4286231.
  18. ^ Gill, Graeme (1994). "Review of Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives". Slavic Review. 53 (4): 1111–1112. doi:10.2307/2500849. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2500849.
  19. ^ Jogo, Judith (1994). "Review of Stalinist Terror, New Perspectives". Teaching History (76): 46–47. ISSN 0040-0610. JSTOR 43259980.
  20. ^ Kotkin, Stephen (1995). "Review of Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives". The Russian Review. 54 (4): 635–637. doi:10.2307/131639. ISSN 0036-0341. JSTOR 131639.
  21. ^ Smith, Michael (1995). "Review of Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives". Russian History. 22 (3): 337–338. ISSN 0094-288X. JSTOR 24658461.
  22. ^ Yekelchyk, Serhy (1996). "Review of Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives". Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes. 38 (1/2): 213–215. ISSN 0008-5006. JSTOR 40869786.
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