Robert Edelman

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Robert Edelman (born 1945 ) is an American historian . Since 1972 he has been Professor of Russian History and Sports History at the University of California, San Diego .

Life

Edelman grew up in Brooklyn . He first studied international relations at Princeton University and in 1965 spent a year abroad at Moscow University . He was active in the student movement Students for a Democratic Society . Edelman earned his Masters in 1966 and began doctoral studies in Russian and European History at Columbia University , where he obtained his Ph.D. received. In the same year he began teaching at the University of California, San Diego. He also worked as a sports journalist and radio host and at the University of California, Los Angeles .

After completing his studies, Edelman first researched the history of the Russian Empire in its later phase. From 1986 his academic interest turned to the history of sports, one of whose pioneers he is considered today. In 2007 he received the Guggenheim Scholarship . His book Spartak Moscow: A history of the people's team in the workers' state , published in 2009 , in which Edelman traces the history of the Russian football club Spartak Moscow , was awarded the Reginald Zelnik Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies as well as an Outstanding Academic Title from Choice magazine .

Edelman lives in Solana Beach . He is married and has three children.

Publications

  • Gentry politics on the eve of the Russian Revolution: the Nationalist Party, 1907-1917 . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 1980, ISBN 0813508851
  • Proletarian peasants: the revolution of 1905 in Russia's southwest . Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1987, ISBN 0801494737
  • Serious fun: a history of spectator sports in the USSR . Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0195079485
  • Spartak Moscow: A history of the people's team in the workers' state . Cornel University Press, Ithaca 2009, ISBN 9780801447426
  • Edited with Wayne Wilson: The Oxford handbook of sports history . Oxford University Press, New York 2017, ISBN 9780199858910
  • Edited with Christopher Young: The whole world was watching: sport in the Cold War . Stanford University Press, Stanford 2019, ISBN 9781503610187

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rafael Fortes: Interview with Robert Edelman. In: Revistas UFRJ. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , accessed July 3, 2019 . (PDF, 166 KB)
  2. ^ A b c page by Edelman at the University of California, San Diego
  3. ↑ An interview with Robert Edelman. In: Kritika . Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Edelman publications on the University of California, San Diego website
personal data
SURNAME Edelman, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edelman, Robert S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1945