Polish Studies at West Virginia University

• The Institution
• Poland-Related Courses
• Faculty

History 218 Eastern Europe Since 1945 @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The social, economic, intellectual, cultural, and political history of Eastern Europe since the Second World War. Special emphasis on the causes of the East European revolutions of 1989 and the problems of the post-communist transition. (Every third semester.) (3 credits)

History 714 Rdgs Eastern European History @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Intensive readings on specific topics in Russian, Soviet, or East European history. Students should normally have had History 117 and 118 or their equivalents. Primarily designed for graduate students and selected undergraduates. May be repeated once. (3 credits)

History 715 Sem Eastern European Hist.@

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Research seminar on selected topics in Russian, Soviet, or Eastern European history. One major paper and extensive reading based on available source materials is required. May be repeated once.

Blobaum, Robert E - Professor of History, West Virginia University @

Ph.D. University of Nebraska, 1981
Phone: (304) 293-2421x5241 / Fax: . . . . . . . . . / e-mail: RBLOBAU@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU
MAJOR INTERESTS: - Early Twentieth Century Poland, Social and Political.
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
HONORS

• Recipient of the 1997 Benedum Distinguished Scholar Awards in Humanities and Performing Arts for "Rethinking Modern Polish History" @

BOOKS

• Feliks Dzierzynski and the SDKPiL: A Study of the Origins of Polish Communism, (Eastern European Monographs Series/Columbia Univ., 1984)
• Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904-1907 (Cornell University Press, 1995) @

PUBLICATIONS

• Russian Poland between Revolution and War: Maybe It Wasn't So Bad, After All?, Historyka (December, 1997) @
  
• Boycott! The Politics of Antisemitism in Poland, 1912-1914 Published Research Report (Washington: The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, 1998. @
  
• Modernization and Civil Society in Twentieth Century Poland, Published Research Report (Washington: The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, 1998). @
  
• To Market! To Market! The Polish Peasantry in the Era of the Stolypin Reforms (Slavic Review, 2000) @
• The 'Woman Question' in Russian Poland, 1900-1914 (Journal of Social History, 35 #4, 2001)

BOOK REVIEWS

• "Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in LateTsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland" by Holmgren, Beth, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998) @