Vita
Professor Robert Edelman is a professor of Russian history and the history
of sport at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been
teaching since 1972, when he received his doctorate from Columbia University.
He has also taught at UCLA.
He was a former sports-writer and radio announcer. He has consulted on
documentaries for HBO, PBS, ESPN, and CBS at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games.
He lives in Solana Beach with three children, two dogs and one wife.
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Publications
- Gentry Politics on the Eve of the Russian Revolution: The Nationalist
Party, 1905-1917 (Rutgers, 1980)
- Proletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest,
(Cornell, 1987).
- Serious Fun: A History of Sepctator Sports in the USSR,
(Oxford University Press, 1993).
- *Winner of the annual book awards of the Amateur Athletic
Foundation of Los Angeles and the North American Society of Sports
Historians
- "A Small Way of Saying No: Spartak Soccer, Moscow Men and the
Communist Party, 1900-1945", American Historical Review,
(December 2002).
- Published articles in the Russian Review, Slavic Review,
Journal of Modern History, Journal of Sports History, New York Times,
History Today, and Hoop.
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Current Research
- Currently working on a book about the history of Spartak and Moscow's
men before, during, and after Soviet power. One of his specialties is
the history of sport.
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Courses
- HIEU 127. History of Modern Sport.
- HIEU 134. The Formation of the Russian Empire 800-1855.
- HIEU 156. The Russian Empire/Soviet Union 1855-1991.
- HIEU 178. Russian History and Popular Culture: Soviet Union After
Stalin.
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