History Department- San Francisco State University

Picture of History Faculty at a Department Meeting

Anthony D'Agostino
Department of History
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132
E-mail: dagostin@sfsu.edu 

Education

    B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1959
    M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1962
    Graduate study, University of Warsaw, 1967-8
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1971

Teaching Fields


    History 385 The Russian Revolution
    History 388 Soviet Russia in World Affairs
    History 318 The Cold War
    History 110 Western Civilization
    History 389 European International History 1848-1918
    History 390 Era of the World Wars 1918-1945
    International Relations 730 Russian-American Relations
    NEXA 340 The Nuclear Revolution (team-taught with a physicist)

Honors and Awards

Research Fellowship, University of Warsaw (Stanford-Warsaw Exchange), 1967-68
Research Fellowship for Younger Humanists, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1973
Research Fellowship in Soviet and East European Studies, U.S. State Department and Hoover Institution, 1986-87
Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, San Francisco State   University, 1986-87, 1989-90
Performance Salary Increment, 1997
Faculty Merit Increase, 1998
Soviet Succession Struggles (see publications) cited by Choice on list of "outstanding  academic books" for 1988-9.
Soviet Succession Struggles cited by Encyclopedia Britannica 1989 Yearbook's  select international bibliography.

Publications

Books

Marxism and the Russian Anarchists. San Francisco: Germinal Press, 1977.

Soviet Succession Struggles: Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev. Boston, London, Toronto, and Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1988. [see awards]

Gorbachev’s Revolution, 1985-1991. New York and Basingstoke: Macmillan/NYU Press, 1998.

The Russian Revolution, 1917-1945. London: Anthem Press, in press.

Selected Specialized Articles

"Intelligentsia Socialism and the 'Worker's Revolution': The Views of J.W. Machajski," International Review of Social History (Amsterdam), v. 14, part   2, 1969.

"Ambiguities of Trotsky's Leninism," Survey (London), v. 24, n. 1, 107, Winter 1979.

"Trotsky on Stalin's Foreign Policy," in Francesca Geri (ed.), Pensiero e azione politica di Lev Trockij, Firenze: Leonardo Olschki, 1983.

"Anarchists in the Russian Revolution," in George D. Jackson and Robert Devlin (eds.) Dictionary of the Russian Revolution, Greenwood Press, 1989.

"The Star Wars Debate," Armed Forces and Society, Winter 1989.

"Stalin Old and New," Russian Review, July 1995.

"The Revisionist Tradition in European Diplomatic History," Journal of the Historical Society, Spring, 2004.

Op-ed Pieces and Other Journalism in San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, New Leader.

Book reviews in American Historical Review, Slavic Review, Russian Review, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Russian History/Histoire Russe, Choice, San Francisco Review of Books.

Radio: commentary and interviews on Voice of America, KCBS (CBS), KGO (ABC), KNBR (NBC), KQED (PBS), KPFA, Canadian Broadcast Company.

Television: commentary and interviews on KPIX (CBS), KRON (NBC), KTVU (Fox), Canadian Broadcasting Company, KTSF, Viacom ch.25 (SF), BAY-TV.

Speeches to Northern California World Affairs Council, Sonoma World Affairs Council, Stanford University Women, and other groups.
 




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