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Frederick Corney
Professor, History
Office:
Blair 331
Email:
[[fccorn]]
Regional Areas of Research:
Modern Europe and Russia
Thematic Areas of Research:
Comparative and Transnational, Cultural and Intellectual History, Historiography and Historical Memory
Background
Frederick Corney received his PhD from Columbia University in 1997. He specializes in the history of Russia, specifically in the revolutionary period through the 1920s. He is especially interested in historiographic and cultural issues, notably historical memory, and Soviet film. His book, Telling October. Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution is published by Cornell University Press. He has translated, introduced, and edited two volumes with Brill Publishers: Trotsky's Challenge: The 'Literary Discussion' and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution (Brill, 2015) and “War Communism” as Revolution Lev Kritsman's The Heroic Period of the Great Russian Revolution (an attempt at an analysis of so-called “War Communism” (Brill, 2026). He is currently working on a broad study of historical memory in modern Russia.