Richard Hellie

Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Chicago 1965

FIELD SPECIALTIES

Russian History; Muscovite Social, Economic, and Legal History; The Russian Novel

BIOGRAPHY

Major fellowships, grants:

Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellowships,1962-65.
Gugenheim Fellowship, 1973-74.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship,1978-79.
NSF (Economics) Grant, 1988-90.
Bradley Foundation Grant, 1988-91.

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PUBLICATIONS

Muscovite Society. Chicago: Syllabus Division, The College, The Universityof Chicago, 1967; reprinted 1970. 320 p.

Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1971. 400 p.

Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. xix +776 p.

The Ulozhenie (Law Code) of 1649. Irvine, CA: Charles Schlacks, Publisher, 1988, 710 p.Volume 1, the translation, of a scholarly edition. Volume 2, the commentary, will be written and published as soon as possible.

Editor of The Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout:Essays in Eighteenth-Century Russian Economic History, by Arcadius Kahan.Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. 399 two-column 8-1/2 x 11"pp.

The Economy and Material Culture of Russia 1600-1725. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

"The Structure of Modern Russian History: Toward a Dynamic Model." Russian History 4, no. 1 (1977): 1-22.

"What Happened? How Did He Get Away With It? Ivan Groznyi's Paranoia and the Problem of Institutional Restraints."Russian History 14, no. 1-4 (1987): 199-224.

"Patterns of Instability in Russian and SovietHistory." The Chicago Review of International Affairs. "Pt.1, 750 to 1917," 1, no. 3 (Autumn 1989) 3-34. "Pt. 2, The SovietPeriod," 2, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 3-15.

"The Great Paradox of the Seventeenth Century:The Stratification of Muscovite Society and the 'Individualization' of Its High Culture, Especially Literature." In O Rus! Studia LitterariaSlavica in Honorem Hugh McLean. Ed. Simon Karlinsky, James L. Rice, Barry P. Scherr. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1995. Pp. 116-28.

"Late Medieval and Early Modern Russian Civilization and Modern Neuroscience." In Culture and Identity in Muscovy, 1359-1584 (UCLA Slavic Studies, vol. 3), ed. by A. M. Kleimola and G. D. Lenhoff. Moscow: "ITZ-Garant", 1997: 146-65.

Editor of the quarterly journal Russian History commencing volume15 (1988).

Next projected book: The Structure of Modern Russian History. Organized around the three service class revolutions of Ivan III and Ivan IV, Peter the Great, and Stalin. The book will discuss the causes, course, and consequences of these major developments which have structured modern Russian history since 1480.

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