Yanni Kotsonis

Yanni Kotsonis' CV

Imperial Russia; political economy; history of the modern state; history of taxation in Russia and the world; contemporary economic theory, liberalism, and neoliberalism.

Raised in Athens and educated in Montreal, Copenhagen, London, and Moscow. His first position was at the University of Essex before moving to NYU where he teaches on Russia, the USSR, economic thought, and dystopianism and supervises doctoral students in a variety of subfields. He is the founding director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and father to three children.

Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, 2015, Canadian Historical Association for the best book in a topic outside Canadian history, for States of Obligation.

States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic, has been awarded the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for an outstanding monograph on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe. 

States of Obligation also received Honorable Mention for The Davis Center Book Prize, sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, for an outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.

"Ordinary People in Russian and Soviet History," Kritika, 12:3 (Summer 2011),
pp.739-54

"The Problem of the Individual in the Stolypin Reforms," Kritika, 12:1 (Winter 2011), pp.25-52

"'No Place to Go': Taxation and State Transformation in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia," The Journal of Modern History, 76 (Summer 2004), pp.531-577

"'Face to Face': The State, the INdividual, and the Citizen in Imperial Russian Taxation, 1863-1917," Slavic Review, 63:2 (Summer 2004), pp.221-46

"The Ideology of Martin Malia," Russian Review, 58:1 (January 1999), pp.124-30.

"A European Experience: Human Rights and Citizenship in Revolutionary Russia," in Human Rights and Revolutions (Bowman and LIttlefield, 2007).