Dave Pretty

Assistant Professor of History

Bancroft 360

(803) 323-4675

prettyd@winthrop.edu

Russia, Central Europe

Background:

A native of Massachusetts, Professor Pretty received his bachelor's degree from the University of California
at Santa Cruz, his master's degree from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He
specializes in the history of Russia, especially the later imperial, revolutionary, and early Soviet periods  

(1881-1941), with secondary fields in Latin America and Germany. Professor Pretty has been at Winthrop

since 1998, after three years teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

His work has focused on the development of the Russian working class, as well as the uses of mass violence

in Russian culture. He is currently writing a book about the murder of a factory director (an Englishman) in

a Russian factory village by a crowd of his own workers in 1895. In researching this book, he spent the first

half of 1999 in Russia, as well as a short research trip to London in 2001. He is also planning a book on
Russian pogroms.   

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Recent and Representative Publications and Presentations:

• Presented "Global History of Textile Workers,1650-2000" at the conference of the International Institute of
   Social History, Amsterdam, Holland, 2004.

• "The Peasant-Worker Nexus," roundtable participant, Annual Conference of the American Association for the
   Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Pittsburgh, November 2002.  

• "The Workers' Task: Worker Activists' Attitudes toward Intelligentsia Leadership in Ivanovo-Voznesensk,
  1895-1904, " The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, pending revisions.

• Book review of Laura L. Phillips, Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg,
  1900-1919, in Canadian-American Slavonic Studies (forthcoming).

• "Murder by Crowd, or, the Death of a Factory Director," conference paper, AAASS, Denver, November, 2000.

• "The Pogrom as Protest: Towards a Theory of the Pogrom as an Instrument of  Popular Power," conference

  paper, Spring Meeting of the Southern Conference of Slavic Studies, Wilmington, N.C., March 2000.

• "The Saints of the Revolution: Political Activists in 1890s Ivanovo-Voznesensk and the Path of Most Resistance,"
  Slavic Review  54, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 276-304.

Classes taught:

• 111 World Civilization to 950 (3)
  A survey of major civilizations of the world until about 950.
  Note: Offered in fall, spring and summer

• 112 World Civilizations from 950 - 1750 (3)
  A survey of major civilizations of the world since about  950 - 1750. 
  Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.

• 113 World Civilizations since 1750 (3)
  A survey of major civilizations of the world since about 1750.
  Notes: Offered in fall.

• 344 European History from the Age of Reason to the Versailles Settlement (3)
  A study of political, social, economic, diplomatic and intellectual developments from 1789 to the end of

• World War I.

• 345 European History Since 1914 (3)
  History of Europe since the beginning of the First World War, including the rise of fascism and communism,
  the Second World War and the Holocaust, the growth of the welfare state, the Cold War, and the collapse of

• communism, examined within the context of wide-ranging social and cultural change. 

• 547 History of Modern Russia (3)
  A survey of Russian history, focusing on events from the development of revolutionary movements in the

• nineteenth century until the  present.

• 548 History of Modern Germany (3)

  History of Germany since the 1850s, including the rise of Bismarck, the unification of Germany, the First World 

  War, Hitler, the Third Reich, the Holocaust, division between East and West in the Cold War, and reunified

  Germany's present-day dominant role in Europe.

• 560 The History of Mexico and Central America (3) 
  The study of the social, economic and diplomatic evolution of Mexico and Central America from the colonial
  period to the present.

• 640 Great Issues in Modern European History (3) Advanced, in-depth consideration of special topics
  in modern European history.
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Last revised 14 June 2007.