Kotsonis

Yanni Kotsonis

Professor of History & Russian & Slavic Studies

Education

Columbia University, PhD 1994

Areas of Research/Interest

Russian, Soviet and global political economy; history of taxation in Russia and the world; contemporary economic theory, liberalism, and neoliberalism; the Greek Revolution in global context.

Bio

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.

Awards

  • 2021 Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin
  • 2015 Winner, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association for the best book in a topic outside Canadian history, for States of Obligation
  • Winner, Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for an outstanding monograph on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe, for States of Obligation
  • Honorable Mention, 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

Books

Articles

  • Taxes and the Two Faces of the State since the Eighteenth Century
    State Formations, John Brook et al
    Cambridge, (2018)
  • 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
  • A European Experience: Human Rights and Citizenship in Revolutionary Russia
    Human Rights and Revolutions
    Bowman and LIttlefield (2007)
  • 'No Place to Go': Taxation and State Transformation in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
    The Journal of Modern History, 76
    (2004), pp.531-577
  • 'Face to Face': The State, the Individual, and the Citizen in Imperial Russian Taxation, 1863-1917
    Slavic Review, 63:2
    (2004), pp. 221-46
  • The Ideology of Martin Malia
    Russian Review, 58:1
    (January 1999), pp.124-30.