Nigel Raab

Nigel Raab, Professor of History.

Media Expertise: Russia

Areas of Interest: Russia, Soviet Union, History and Historians.

Biography: Dr. Raab is the author of All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917-1991 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), The Crisis from Within: Historians, Theory and the Humanities (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015), Who is the Historian? (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), Democracy Burning? Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011).

Nigel focuses on Russia, the Soviet Union, civil society, natural disasters, and theories of historical analysis.

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