Department of History

Hiroaki Kuromiya

  • Professor, Department of History

Education

  • B.A. at Tokyo University, 1977
  • M.A. at Tokyo University, 1979
  • Ph.D. at Princeton University, 1985

Contact Information

Research Interests

  • Modern Russia
  • Modern Ukraine
  • Soviet Union

Courses Recently Taught

  • Various courses related to the history of Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union
  • The Cold War and World War II

Publication Highlights

Books

Stalin (Profiles in Power). Harlow, UK: Longman, 2005.

Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [Ukrainian edition: Svoboda i teror u Donbasi: Ukrains’ke-rosiiske prykordonnia, 1870-1990-i roky. Kyiv: Osnovy, 2002.]

Stalin’s Industrial revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.