Henry S. McNeil Professor of History
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (courtesy appointment)
226 Hall of Graduate Studies, 432-1378
laura.engelstein@yale.edu

Education
B.A. 1969, City College of New York; M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1976, Stanford University

Interests
Modern Russian and Soviet history, cultural history, gender, legal history, religion.

Current Courses
Lecture course in modern Russian history; graduate seminars in Imperial and Soviet history; graduate seminar on civil society in nineteenth-century Russia and Germany.

Books
Moscow, 1905: Working-Class Organization and Political Conflict. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982.

The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Ed. with Stephanie Sandler. Self and Story in Russian History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Recent Work
Essays in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Russian culture; cultural history of political violence 1905-1920.