Mark B. Tauger

Associate Professor

Teaching Fields

• Russian/Soviet History
• Agrarian History
• World History

Degrees

• Ph.D., History, UCLA
• MA, Historical Musicology, UCLA
• MA, History, UCLA
• BA, Music, UCLA

Research Interests

Agrarian history: modernization of agriculture in capitalist and other economic systems, interactions between agriculture and the natural environment, mutual dependence between industry and agriculture.

Russian and Soviet history: famines, agriculture, and government policies toward both, environmental history of Eurasia and its significant for other aspects of the region’s history, post-Soviet history of the region.

World History (besides agrarian history): history of religious doubt and atheism, history of globalization and resistance to it.

Grad Students Advised

Ph.D.:

• Nilinjana Paul (co-chair)
• Jason Roberts (co-chair)

Courses Offered

• HIST 179: World History to 1500
• HIST 180: World History 1500- Present
• HIST 217: Russia to 1917
• HIST 218: Twentieth Century Russia
• HIST 225 Modern South Asia
• HIST 281: Agrarian Transformation
• HIST 419: Revolutionary Russia 1905-1953
• HIST 420: The USSR and After, 1953-Present
• HIST 700: Historiography
• HIST 787: Readings in World History

Publications

Books:

Agriculture in World History, Routledge Press series Themes in World History, 2010.

Golod, Golodomor, Genotsid?, Dovira Press, Kiev, 2008






Articles:
Soviet Agriculture and Famines
Indian Agriculture and Famines

Teaching:
Using music in Western and World Civilization courses