Dr Matthew Rendle
Lecturer
Extension: 4319
Telephone: 01392 724319
My research focuses on Russian history during the late Imperial and revolutionary periods. My recent book focused on the role of elite groups, such as nobles, officers and landowners, in the revolutionary process; Defenders of the Motherland: The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia (Oxford University Press, 2010) [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199236251]. My next book will use a study of revolutionary tribunals during Russia's civil war (1917-22) to examine changing definitions of crime during this period, the interaction between regime and society, and the role of law and violence in the formation of the Soviet state. Other projects include an examiniation of civil society in Russia across the revolutionary period, a study of Moscow province between 1914 and 1922, and an ongoing interest in the nobility in late Imperial Russia.
