CURRICULUM VITAE
Anthony D’Agostino
Department of History
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132
home address: 4815 Harbord Drive, Oakland, CA 94618
phone: (415) 338 7535
e-mail:
EDUCATION
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1959
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1962
Graduate Study, University of Warsaw, 1967-68
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1971
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Teaching Assistantship, UCLA, 1965-66
Teaching Assistantship, UCLA, 196667
Research Fellowship, University of Warsaw (StanfordWarsaw Exchange), 196768
Research Assistantship, Russian and East European Studies Center, UCLA, 196869
Research Fellowship, Frederick Burk Foundation, San Francisco State University, 1971
Research Fellowship for Younger Humanists, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1973
Research Fellowship in Soviet and East European Studies (Title VIII), U.S. State Department and Hoover Institution, 1986-87
Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, San Francisco State University, 198687
Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, San Francisco State University, 1988-89
Choice cites Soviet Succession Struggles on its list of “outstanding academic books” for 1988-89.
Encyclopedia Britannica 1989 Yearbook cites Soviet Succession Struggles in its select international bibliography.
Performance Salary Increase, San Francisco State University, 1998.
MEMBERSHIPS:
World Association of International Studies (Stanford)
American Historical Association
The History Society
International Institute of Strategic Studies (London)
Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies (London)
InterUniversity Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Great War Society
Western Social Science Association
Northern California World Affairs Council
Electronic mail groups WAIS (see above), H-Russia, H-Diplo, H-Ideas, H-World, Johnson’s Russia List and others.
EMPLOYMENT:
Instructor, University of California, L.A., Summer 1968
Instructor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Summer 1969
Instructor, San Francisco State University, Fall 1969Spring 1971
Book Editor, California Historical Quarterly, 1972
Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University, Spring 1971-Spring 1976
Associate Professor, San Francisco State University, Spring 1976-Spring 1980
Professor, San Francisco State University, 1981-pres.
COURSES TAUGHT:
History 385 Russian Revolution
386 Post-War USSR
388 Soviet Union in World Affairs
389 European International History, 1848-1918
390 European International History, 1918-1945
429 Cold War
318 The Sixties
110 Western Civilization
408-09 European Intellectual History
387 Era of Globalization, 1968-2008
International Relations 730 Russian-American Relations
NEXA 340 The Nuclear Revolution (team-taught with physicist Charles Shapiro)
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Marxism and the Russian Anarchists. San Francisco: Germinal Press, 1977.
Soviet Succession Struggles: Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev. Boston, London, Toronto, and Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1988.
(see awards)
Gorbachev’s Revolution, 1985-1991. London, Basingstoke, New York: Macmillan/ NYU Press, 1998.
The Russian Revolution, 1917-1945. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: Praeger/ ABC-CLIO, 2011.
The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars. Cambridge, New York, Victoria: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
SPECIALIZED ARTICLES:
“Intelligentsia Socialism and the ‘Workers’ Revolution’: The Views of J. W. Machajski,” International Review of Social History (Amsterdam), v. 14, part 2, 1969.
“Elleinstein’s Eurocommunism,” New Labor Review, v. 1, n. 2, September 1978.
“French Eurocommunism after the ‘Check’ of March: Debate and Reversal of Alliances,” New Labor Review, v. 1, n. 2, September 1978.
“Ambiguities of Trotsky’s Leninism,” Survey (London), v. 24, n. 1, 107, Winter 1979.
“Trotsky on Stalin’s Foreign Policy,” in Francesca Geri (ed.), Pensiero e azione politica di Lev Trockij, Firenze: Leonardo Olschki, 1983.
“Machajski and the New Class,” Telos, Fall 1988.
“Anarchists in the Russian Revolution,” in George D. Jackson (ed.), Dictionary of the Russian Revolution, Greenwood Press, 1989.
“The Star Wars Debate,” Armed Forces and Society, Winter 1989.
“Stalin Old and New,” Russian Review, July 1995.
“The Anarchist Critique of Marxism,” Perspectives, Fall 1998.
“The Revisionist Tradition in European Diplomatic History,” Journal of the Historical Society, Spring 2004.
“Kremlinology,” in James Millar et. al. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Russian History, Thomson-Gale, 2004.
“Global Origins of World War One: Part One, The World Crisis over Concessions in China,” Historia Actual (Cadiz) n. 12 (2007).
“Global Origins of World War One: Part Two, A Chain of Revolutionary Events across the World Island,” Historia Actual (Cadiz) n. 13 (2007).
“World War One in World History,” in Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobtzeff (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT, 2012.
REVIEWS:
J. A. Harrison, The Founding of the Russian Empire in Asia and America, California Historical Quarterly, Spring 1972.
Klaus Mehnert, Moscow and the New Left, Russian History/Histoire Russe, v. 3, part 1, 1976.
Martin Miller, Kropotkin, Russian History/Histoire Russe, vol.7, part 3, 1980.
Ronald Segal, Trotsky: A Biography, Slavic Review, Fall 1981.
Alan Adler (ed.), Theses, Resolutions, and Manifestoes of the First Four Congresses of the Communist International, Slavic Review, Spring 1982.
Mikhail Agursky, Ideologiia NatsionalBolshevizma,
Russian History/Histoire Russe, vol. 9, part 1, 1982.
Donald Zagoria (ed.), Soviet Policy in East Asia, Choice, April 1983.
William Rosenberg and Marilyn Young, Transforming Russia and China, Russian History/Histoire Russe, vol. 10, part 1, 1983.
Archie Brown and Michael Kaser (eds.), Soviet Policy in the Eighties, Choice, June 1983.
Bruce Porter, The USSR in Third World Conflicts: Soviet Arms and Diplomacy in Local Wars, 19451980, Choice, February 1985.
Joseph Nogee (ed.), Russia After Brezhnev, Choice, November, 1985.
Robert C. Tucker, Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev; and Donna Bahry, Outside Moscow: Power, Politics, and the Budgetary Process in the Soviet Republics, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v.501 (January 1989).
Moshe Lewin, The Gorbachev Phenomenon, American Historical Review, (February 1990).
Stalin (HBO film biography), American Historical Review (July 1991).
Caroline Cahm, Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, Russian History, Fall 1992.
John Lowenhardt, James Ozinga, and Erik van Ree, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo, Russian History, Summer 1993.
Roy Laird, The Soviet Legacy, Russian Review, Winter 1993-4.
Robert Service, Lenin: A Political Life (vol.3), American Historical Review, October 1996.
Anne de Tinguy, The Fall of the Soviet Empire, Russian Review, July 1999.
Julie A. Cassiday, The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen, Canadian Slavonic Papers, December, 2000.
Stephen White and Evan Mawdsley, The Central Committee of the Communist Party, 1917-1991, American Historical Review, October, 2001.
Celleste Wallander, “Western Policy and the Demise of the USSR,” Journal of Cold War Studies (Fall 2003), H-DIPLO, 5 November 2003.
Jonathan Harris, Subverting the System: Gorbachev’s Reform of the Party Apparat, 1986-1991, Slavic Review, Spring 2005.
Mark Kramer, “The Collapse of East European Communism and the Repercussions within the Soviet Union, Journal of Cold War Studies (three parts) (Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Winter 2005), H-DIPLO, May 2005.
Uri Ra’anan (ed.), Flawed Succession: Russia’s Power Transfer Crises, Slavic Review, Spring 2007.
Andras Bozoki and Miklos Sukosd, Anarchism in Hungary: Theory, History, and Legacies, American Historical Review, June 2007.
Markku Kangaspuro and Jeremy Smith (eds.), Modernization in Russia Since 1900, Slavic Review, Fall 2008.
Timothy Colton, Yeltsin: A Life, Slavic Review, Fall 2009.
Peter Juviler and Hiroshi Kimura (eds.) The Gorbachev Regime: Consolidation to Reform, Slavic Review, Summer 2010.
Markku Kangaspuro, Jouko Nikula, and Ivor Stodolsky (eds.) Perestroika: Process and Consequences, Russian Review, April 2011.
Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, American Historical Review, July 2011.
Helen Hardman, Gorbachev’s Export of Perestoika to Eastern Europe: Democratization Reconsidered, Russian Review, forthcoming.
Timothy Messer-Kruse, The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, American Historical Review, June 2013..
Bruce Robbins, Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence, Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), forthcoming.
OP-ED PIECES AND OTHER WRITINGS:
“An Israeli Balance Sheet on the Lebanon War,” Portalwood Press, April 1, 1983.
“Chronicling the Soviet Succession,” Oakland Tribune, February 26, 1984.
“Post World War Three: A Kind of Utopia?” San Francisco Chronicle, April 1, 1984.
“Soviet Malaise Threatens EastWest Relations,” Oakland Tribune, July 1, 1984.
“Nuclear Jitters,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 1984.
“Another View of ‘Survival’,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 1985.
“Story About ABomb Not What’s Promised,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 27, 1985.
“Did Japan Have ABomb in World War Two?,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 1985.
“U.S. Helps Mold Gorbachev’s Fate,” San Jose Mercury News, March 17, 1985.
“Unthinking About the Thinkable,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 1985.
“It’s a MAD, MAD World We Live In,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 1986.
“The Ethics of Nuclear Strategy,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 8, 1986.
“Gorbachev and Glasnost: The View from the Soviet New Left,” San Francisco Review of Books, December 1988.
“New Storms in Eastern Europe,” (letter), New York Times, 25 December 1992.
Short statement as part of a symposium of Soviet specialists on the passing of Communism, New Leader, 12-16 December 1992.
“The Fall of Soviet Power,” Johnson’s Russia List, 29 January 1998.
“Reply to Hahn,” Johnson’s Russia List, 8 February 1998.
“Second Reply to Hahn,” Johnson’s Russia List, 27 February 1998.
“Note on the Terminology of Leninism,” H-DIPLO, 23 July 1998.
“Primakov and Gorchakov,” Johnson’s Russia List, 7 August 1998.
“Primakov and Recueillement,” Johnson’s Russia List, 20 August 1998.
“Yeltsin’s Turn,” Johnson’s Russia List, 20 September 1998.
“Gorbachev on ‘Who Lost Russia?’” Johnson’s Russia List, 1 October 1998.
“CNN’s Cold War: Varga and the Origins of the Cold War,” H-DIPLO, 13 October 1998.
“CNN’s Cold War: Why Stalin’s Berlin Blockade?”, H-DIPLO, 20 October 1998.
“CNN’s Cold War: Stalin’s Postwar Purges,” H-DIPLO, 4 November 1998.
“CNN’s Cold War: The Berlin Wall,” H-DIPLO, 24 November 1998.
“CNN’s Cold War: Stalin’s Election Speech, 1946,” H-DIPLO, 22 January 1999.
“CNN’s Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Split,” H-DIPLO, 25 January 1999.
“Reply to James Hershberg,” H-DIPLO, 28 January 1999.
“CNN’s Cold War: The Chinese Invasion of Vietnam, 1979,” H-DIPLO, 11 February 1999.
“Reply to Gary Woodard,” H-DIPLO, 19 February 1999.
“CNN’s Cold War: Reagan’s Conversion,” H-DIPLO, 22 March 1999.
“Primakov’s Peacemaking in 1991 and 1999,” Johnson’s Russia List, 30 March, 1999.
“Notes on the Legacy of Primakov,” Johnson’s Russia List, 22 May 1999.
“On Revisionism,” Johnson’s Russia List, 31 May 1999.
“Churchill and Pat Buchanan,” Tompaine.commonsense, 27 September 1999.
“Gorbachev’s Bungling Led to Collapse of USSR,” Tompaine.commonsense, 10 November 1999.
“Kosovo and Chechnya,” Johnson’s Russia List, 2 December 1999.
“A Note on the Hitler-Stalin Pact,” H-DIPLO, 6 March 2000.
“Migranyan’s Latest Call for Dictatorship,” Johnson’s Russia List, 1 April 2000.
“Putin, Schroeder, and American Hegemony,” Johnson’s Russia List, 22 June 2000.
“A Note on the Great Purge,” H-Russia, 28 August 2000
“Reply to Benno Ennker, H-Russia, 8 September 2000.
“A Note on Bukharin,” H-Russia, 1 March 2001.
“Cross the Chasm Where it Yawns a Little Less,” in the series “Bridging the Abyss,” Evropeets/EuRussia, 15 March 2001.
“The New New World Order,” History News Network, 17 September 2001.
“Breslauer on Gorbachev and Yeltsin,” Johnson’s Russia List, 22 July 2002.
“Reply to George Breslauer,” Johnson’s Russia List, 6 August 2002.
“Don’t Listen to the Naysayers—the New Deal Helped to End the Depression,” History News Network, 16 July 2012.
“FDR the Hero of Anti-Appeasement,” WAIS (World Association for International Studies), 27 July 2012.
“FDR and de Gaulle,” WAIS, 31 July 2012.
“History and Theory on the World Wars,” H-DIPLO, 8 September 2012.
“Diplomatic History, World History, and the Great Scramble,” Historically Speaking, November 2012.
“Mussolini’s Fascism and Roosevelt’s New Deal,” WAIS, 4 January 2015
PAPERS AND SPEECHES:
“Trotsky’s Dispute with Boris Souvarine, 1929,” to a conference on the StalinTrotsky Dispute and Soviet Politics in the Twenties, Hofstra and Adelphi Universities, March 1979.
“Eurocommunism and Soviet Ideology,” to a meeting of AFLCIO Frontlash, March 1980.
“Trotsky on Soviet Foreign Policy, 19231940,” to a meeting of the Western Social Science Association, April 1980.
Comment on Beverly Springer, “The British Unions and the Thatcher Government,” to a conference of the Southwestern Labor Studies Association, May 1980.
“The Succession after Brezhnev: The International Dimension,” to the Northern California World Affairs Council, August 1980.
“Trotsky’s World Politics,” to an international conference sponsored by the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Follonica, Italy, October 1980.
“Detente and Nuclear Proliferation,” to a meeting of the Genesis Church and San Francisco Youth Association, San Francisco, October 16, 1980.
“Detente in the Third World,” to a meeting of the Genesis Church and San Francisco Youth Association, October 23, 1980.
“Moscow and Leningrad: The Alternance in Soviet Succession Struggles,” to a meeting of the Western Social Science Association, San Diego, April 25, 1981.
“EastWest Issues,” to a schools conference of the Northern California World Affairs Council, May 16, 1981.
“SovietAmerican Relations in the 1980’s,” to a meeting of the Northern California United Nations Association, Piedmont, California, June 6, 1981.
“Soviet Succession Struggles,” to a meeting of the Institute for Historical Study, San Francisco, October 13, 1982.
“The December 1983 Central Committee Plenum and the Andropov Faction,” to the Northern California World Affairs Council, February 9, 1984.
“The USSR and the Andropov Succession,” to the Northern California World Affairs Council, March 28, 1984.
“The SovietAmerican Relations: The Conflict of Cultures,” to the Center for Learning in Retirement, University of California Extension, June 22, 1984.
“Soviet Foreign Policy After Andropov,” to the First Unitarian Church, July 29, 1984.
“The Soviets Rehabilitate Molotov and Demote Ogarkov,” to a panel of the American Association of University Women, Walnut Creek, November 4, 1984.
“After Chernenko: Some Projections,” to First Unitarian Church, S.F., November 25, 1984.
“Proliferation and the Nuclearization of Conflict,” to a Hadassah conference on “Nuclear Arms Control: The Last Frontier?” December 2, 1984.
Comment on papers on “Nationalism and Bolshevism,” 3rd World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Washington, D.C., November 2, 1985.
“U.S.Soviet Relations in the Era of Star Wars,” First Unitarian Church, August 24, 1986.
“Soviet Politburo Factions: A Historical View,” to a meeting at The Hoover Institution, January 30, 1987.
“Rules of Soviet Succession,” to the Northern California World Affairs Council, April 28, 1988.
“Gorbachev and the Soviet Reforms,” to the Asilomar conference of the Northern California World Affairs Council, April 30, 1988.
Comment on panel, “The Cold War in Latin America,” Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, August 12, 1988.