Biography
My specialization is Russian to 1917. My research and teaching interests include the History of Imperial Russia (1649-1917); social, intellectual, political and diplomatic.
Education
Ph.D., Columbia
M.A., Toronto
B.A., Toronto
Books
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David McDonald. United Government and Russian Foreign Policy, 1900-1914. Harvard University Press, 1992.
Selected Publications
- “Dreams of Dukhoboriia: The Russian Revolution and Canada’s Dukhobors,” forthcoming in M. Neuberger, C. Chatterjee, S. Marks and S. Sabol, The Wider Arc of Revolution [working title of volume in series Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914- 1922 (Slavica Publishers).
- “Sport History and the Historical Profession,” in R. Edelman et alii, eds., The Oxford Handbook to Sport History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 61-78.
- “The State, Domestic Factors and the World Outside, 1700-2005,” in Robert Legvold, ed., Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century & the Shadow of the Past (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007): 145-205
Books
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David McDonald. United Government and Russian Foreign Policy, 1900-1914. Harvard University Press, 1992.
History Courses
- History 120 – Europe and the Modern World 1815 to the Present
- History 200 – Historical Studies
- History 201 – The Historian’s Craft: “Cold War On Ice – The 1972 ‘Summit Series’ in Context’
- History 201 – The Historian’s Craft: “Crisis in Canada: October 1970”
- History 201 – The Historian’s Craft: “The July Crisis, 1914 and the Coming of the Great War”
- History 253 – Russia: An Interdisciplinary Survey
- History 417 – History of Russia to 1801, The Making of Modern Russia
- History 418 – History of Russia
- History 420 – Russian Social and Intellectual History
- History 600 – Women in Imperial Russia
- History 600 – Major League Baseball & American Society since World War II
- History 600 – Imperial Russia 1649-1917
- History 680/690 – Honors Thesis Colloquium History 825 – Europe & the Coming of the Great War
- History 753 – Readings in Transnational Military Culture & Thought, a.k.a. “Classics & Culture”
- History 849 – Russia and the World 1815-2005
- History 849 – Imperial Russia 1649-1917