Boris Nikolaevich Mironov (') (born September 21, 1942) is a

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, anthropometric history and research

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Biography

Mironov was born in 1942 in

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, Saratov Region (

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). Graduated from Leningrad State University, the Department of History (1965). Worked at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the

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(1970–2016) and at

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(1978–1981). Doctor of Historical Sciences (1983),

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of St. Petersburg State University (1990–1993 and from 2000 to the present). Taught at universities in

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(1993–2003). , of which over a hundred articles have been published in leading international journals in English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and other languages. Two monographs (“The Social History of

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, 1700—1917” and “The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700—1917”) were translated into English and Chinese.

Publications

Main monographs in Russian

* ''Mironov B. N.'' Vnutrenniy rynok Rossii vo vtoroy polovine XVIII — pervoy polovine XIX v. Leningrad: Nauka, 1981. — 259 s. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Khlebnyye tseny v Rossii za dva stoletiya (XVIII—XIX vv.). Leningrad: Nauka, 1985. — 301 s. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Russkiy gorod v 1740—1860-ye gody: demograficheskoye, sotsial'noye i ekonomicheskoye razvitiye. Leningrad: Nauka, 1990. — 271 s. * ''Mironov B. N.'' . V 2-h tt.

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: Dm. Bulanin, 1999. ** Second edition. In 2 vol. Saint Petersburg: Dm. Bulanin, 2000. ** Third Edition. In 2 vol. Saint Petersburg: Dm. Bulanin, 2003. — * ''Mironov B. N.'' .

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: Novyiy hronograf, 2010. — 911 s. — ** Second edition. In 2 vol. Moscow: Ves mir, 2012. — * ''Mironov B. N.'' . V 3-h tt. Saint Petersburg: Dmitriy Bulanin, 2015, 2016. — ** Second edition. In 3 vol. Saint Petersburg: Dm. Bulanin, 2018. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Upravlenie etnicheskim mnogoobraziem Rossiyskoy imperii. Saint Petersburg: Dmitriy Bulanin, 2017. — 640 s.

Monographs in English

* ''Boris N. Mironov''. The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700–1917. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000. Vol. 1, 2. Mironov Boris Social History vol 1 2000

* ''Boris N. Mironov''. The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700–1917. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2012. —668 p.Excerpt and text search
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Reviews of Mironov's monographs in English

* ''Lewis R. D.'' eview//

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. 1978. Vol. 83. No 3. P. 688. * ''McKay J. P.'' eview//

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. 1984. Vol. 43. No 1. P. 99–101. * ''Hock, Steven''. eview// Slavic Review, Vol. 46. Fall/Winter. 1987. P. 596–597. * ''Gregory, Paul''. eview// The American Historical Review. Vol. 93. February 1988. P. 195. * ''Leonard C.'' eview// The Russian Review. Vol. 47. No. 4 (Oct., 1988). P. 459. * ''Bater, James H.'' eview// The American Historical Review. Vol. 97. No. 3. 1992. P. 893–894. * ''Brower, Daniel''. eview// Slavic Review. Vol. 51. No. 2. 1992. P. 365–366. * ''Le Donne J.'
Review
// Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia Newsletter. 1992. Vol. 20. * ''Alexander, John T.'' eview// History: Reviews of New Books. 2000. Vol. 28. No. 2. Winter. * ''Saul, Norman E.'' eview// History: Reviews of New Books. 2000. Vol. 28. No. 23. Spring. * ''Okenfus M. J.'' A Social History of the Russian Empire and of Imperial Russia // Jahrbucher für Osteuropaeische Geschichte. 2001. Nr. 1. S. 96–99. * ''Ransel D. L.'' A Single Research Community: Not Yet // Slavic Review. 2001. Vol. 60. No. 3. (Autumn, 2001). P. 550–557. * ''Rieber A. J.'' eview// The Journal of Modern History. Vol. 73. No. 4 (December 2001). P. 993–995. * ''Wirtschafter, Elise Kimerling''. eview// Kritika: Exploration in Russian and Eurasian History. Vol. 2. No. 2. Winter 2001. P. 1–7. * ''Zelnik, Reginald''. eview// The American Historical Review. December 2001. P. 1903–1904. * ''Marrese M. L.'' eviewA Social History of the Russian Empire // Canadian Slavonic Papers. Vol. 46. No. 1/2 (March–June 2004). P. 234–235. * ''Baten J.'
Review
// EH.Net. 2013, January. * ''Cámara A. D.'' eview// Revista de Historia Industrial. 2014. No. 54. P. 181–184. * ''Carrion M. M.'' eview// Economic History Research. 2014. Vol. 10 (3). P. 221–222. * '' Paul R. Gregory''. eview// Economics & Human Biology. 2014. Vol. 12. P. 172–173. * ''Hoch S. L.'' eview// Russian Review. 2015. Vol. 74, iss. 2. P. 324–325. * ''Sunderland W.'' A Glass Half-Full, Perhaps Three-Quarters: Imperial Questions in Boris Mironov's «Rossiiskaia Imperiia» // Byilyie godyi. Rossiyskiy istoricheskiy zhurnal. 2016. No. 41-1 (3). P. 955–964. * ''Worobec C. D.'' A Qualified Optimistic Analysis of Imperial Russia // Byilyie godyi. Rossiyskiy istoricheskiy zhurnal. 2016. No. 41-1 (3). P. 981–988.

Monographs in Chinese

* ''Mironov B. N.'' Istorik i matematika (Matematicheskie metodyi v istoricheskom issledovanii). KNR, Pekin: 1990. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Istorik i sotsiologiya. Leningrad: Nauka, 1984. KNR, Pekin: 1988. — 174 s. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Sotsialnaya istoriya Rossii perioda imperii (XVIII — nachalo XX v.): Genezis lichnosti, demokraticheskoy semi, grazhdanskogo obschestva i pravovogo gosudarstva. Izd. 3-e ispr. V 2-h tt. Dzinan (Jinan): Izd-vo Shandonskogo un-ta (Shan-Dong University Press), 2006. V 2 tt. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Blagosostoyanie naseleniya i revolyutsii v imperskoy Rossii: XVIII — nachalo HH veka. Shanhay: 2013. —825 s.

Articles in English

* ''Mironov B. N.'' The Russian Peasant Commune after the Reforms of the 1860s //

. 1985. Т. 44. No. 3. P. 438–467. * ''Mironov B. N.'' The Development of Literacy in Russia and the USSR from the Tenth to the Twentieth Centuries // History of Education Quarterly. 1991. Т. 31. No. 2. P. 229–252. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Consequences of the Price Revolution in Eighteenth—century Russia // The Economic History Review. Vol. 45. No. 3. August 1992. P. 457–478. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Bureaucratic— or Self—Government: The Early Nineteenth Century Russian City // Slavic Review. Vol. 52. No. 2. Summer 1993. P. 233–255. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Local Government in Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: Provincial Government and Government and Estate Self—Government // Jahrbücher fur Geschichte Osteuropas. Bd. 42 (1994). Hf. 2. P. 161–201. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Diet, Health and Stature of the Russian Population from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century // The Biological Standard of Living in Three Continents Further Explorations In Anthropometric History. Boulder, 1995. P. 59–80. * ''Mironov B. N.'' When and Why was the Russian Peasantry Emancipated // Serfdom and Slavery / Michael Bush (ed.). London: Longman, 1996. P. 323–347. * ''Mironov B. N.'' New Approaches to Old Problems: the Well-Being of the Population of Russia from 1821 to 1910 as Measured by Physical Stature // Slavic Review. 1999. Т. 58. No. 1. P. 1–26. * ''Mironov B. N.'' The Burden of Grandeur: Physical and Economic Well-Being of the Russian Population in the Eighteenth Century // Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe. 2005. P. 255–276. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Russian Living Standards under the Tsars: Anthropometric Evidence from the Volga // The Journal of Economic History. Vol. 68. No. 3 (September 2008). P. 900–929. Co-authored with Brian A'Hearn. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Wages and Prices in Imperial Russia, 1703—1913 //

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. 2010. Т. 69. No. 1. P. 47–72. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Anthropometric Measures of Birth and Stature: Perspectives on Russian Mothers and Newborns // Handbook of Anthropometry: Physical Measures of Human Form in Health and Disease 2012. С. 2561–2580. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Long-term Trends in the Development of the Family Structure in Christian Russia from the 16th to the 20th Century: An Analytical Overview of Historiography // Journal of Family History: Studies in Family, Kinship, Gender, and Demography. October 2016. Vol. 41 (4). P. 355–377. * ''Mironov B. N.'' The Challenge of Space and the Technologies of Management of Ethno-Confessional Diversity in the Russian Empire // Russian History. Vol. 44. 2017. No. 1. P. 25–46. * ''Mironov B. N.'' Cannon Fodder for the Revolution: The Russian Proletariat in 1917 // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring 2017). P. 351–370.

The general list of works

The general list of works in the Information Base of the

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Boris Nikolayevich Mironov: Biobibliograficheskiy ukazatel' trudov: 1964—2018
/ Otv. red. ; sost. T. Ye. Sokhor. — Saint Petersburg: Dm. Bulanin, 2019. — 176 s. —

Bibliography

Membership in editorial boards, editorial boards of magazines

«Russian History» (Connecticut, USA)

«Economic and Social History Review»
(

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)
«Bulletin of St. Petersburg University. History»

«Demographic Review»

Fellowships, grants

* Grant at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the

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. 1989) * Grant at the National Institute for Agricultural History Studies (

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. 1990/1991) * Grant at

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(

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. 1992) * Fellowship of the Woodrow Wilson International Center ( Washington, 1992–1993) * Grant at Benefeld University ( Benefeld,

. 1994) * Grant at the

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( Eugene,

. 1996) * Grant at the

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. 1997) * Fellowship of the Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University (

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. 2001) * Grants at

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(

. 2003, 2005, 2010, 2012) * Member of the international project "Russian-French trade in the XVIII - early XX centuries." Institute of Agrarian Studies (

. 1990–1992) * Member of the International Project "The Global Price and Income History Group". (Project Leader Professor Piter Lindert),

. 2001–2017) *Participant of the International project "Integration of national markets into the world market and its impact on the welfare of the population" at the European University. (Project leader Professor Giovanni Federico),

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. 2010–2012)

References

Literature

* Mironov Boris Nikolayevich // Istoriki Rossii XX veka: Biobibliograficheskiy slovar' / Sost. . —

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: 2005. Vol. 2. P. 58. * Mironov Boris Nikolayevich // ''Chernobayev A. A.'' Istoriki Rossii kontsa XIX — nachala XXI veka: Biobibliograficheskiy slovar'. V 3 t. — Moscow: 2017. Vol. 2. P. 344.

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