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Richard S. Wortman
Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History
Columbia University
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Biography
Richard Wortman, James Bryce Professor Emeritus of
European Legal History, specializes in the history of imperial Russia. He received his B. A. from
Cornell University and his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago.
He taught at the University
of Chicago from 1963 to
1977, and Princeton from 1977 to 1988, before
coming to Columbia.
His publications include The Crisis of Russian Populism (Cambridge
University Press, 1967) and The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness
(University of Chicago Press, 1976). (Russian translation, NLO Press, 2004).
His most recent books are Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian
Monarchy. Volume One: From Peter the Great to the Death of Nicholas I (Princeton
University Press, 1995), Russian translation, (OGI Press,2002), and the second
volume of the work From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II (Princeton
University Press, 2000), (Russian translation, OGI Press, 2004), which was
awarded the George L. Mosse prize of the American Historical Association. The two volumes were awarded the 2006 Efim
Etkind prize of the St.
Petersburg European University for the best western work on
Russian culture and literature. His
latest book is an abridged and revised one-volume version of Scenarios is Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Peter
the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II (Princeton University Press,
2006). In November 2007, he received the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies’ highest award, for
Distinguished Contributions to the Field of Slavic Studies. His current work
concerns representations of imperial power and the culture of rule of Russian monarchy.
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