Nicholas Ganson

Nicholas Ganson
Lecturer

O'Kane 390
(508) 793-3697
nganson@holycross.edu

Research Interests: Soviet and Russian History, Soviet Famine of 1946-7, Comparative Famine and Social Crisis, Religious Dissidents of the 1960s and 1970s in the Soviet Union

Publications: “Food Supply, Rationing, and Living Standards” in David Stone, ed., The Soviet Union at War.  Barnsley, United Kingdom: Pen and Sword, 2010. The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), “Detskaia smertnost’ i gosudarstvennaia politika v SSSR v gody poslevoennogo goloda” (“Childhood Mortality and Government Policies in the USSR during the Postwar Famine”) in L.P. Repina, ed., Dialog so vremenem: Al’manakh intellektual’noi istorii.  Vyp. 17.  2006. (A Dialog with Time: Almanac of Intellectual History, Vol. 17, 2006).  Moscow: URSS, 2006,   “Caught in the Throes of History: The Causes of Child Mortality during the Soviet Postwar Famine, 1946-1947,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 31, no. 2 (2004): 153-72.