Martin A. Miller | Scholars@Duke

Martin A. Miller
Professor of History

Professor Miller's interests are in Modern Russian history, the history of psychoanalysis in Russia, and comparative and international terrorist movements.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1988
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999

Contact Information

337 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
mmiller@duke.edu (919) 684-3014

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1967
- M.A., The University of Chicago 1962
- B.A., University of Maryland, College Park 1960
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor with Tenure, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1974 - 1988
- Assistant Professor, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1970 - 1974
Recognition
In the News
- MAY 7, 2015 Chicago Policy Review
  
  Back to the future: A Duke historian’s take on modern terrorism
- MAY 7, 2015 Chicago Policy Review
  
  Back to the future: A Duke historian’s take on modern terrorism
- MAR 4, 2014
  
  News Tip: Fascism, Anti-Semitism in Ukraine 'Both Fantasy and Reality,' Says Russia Historian
- MAR 4, 2014 Duke Today
  
  News Tip: Fascism, Anti-Semitism in Ukraine 'Both Fantasy and Reality,' Says Russia Historian
- SEP 11, 2013 Des Moines Register
  
  Martin Miller: Climate of fear can be lessened by opening the veil of secrecy
- SEP 11, 2013 Des Moines Register
  
  Martin Miller: Climate of fear can be lessened by opening the veil of secrecy
- SEP 10, 2013
  
  9/11 and the Security State
- SEP 10, 2013 Duke Today
  
  9/11 and the Security State
Awards & Honors
- Fellowships for University Teachers. National Endowment for the Humanities. 1990
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Russian Federation (Country)
- Research
  - Russian Federation (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Traumas of Terrorism in Historical Perspective awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2006 - 2007
- The AIDS Doctors: Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine and the Humanities awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2001
- Freud's Influence on Psychoanalytic Thought in the Soviet Union awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1990 - 1991
- Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Theory in the Soviet Union in the Stalin and Post Stalin Eras awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1986 - 1987
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Miller, M. A. The foundations of modern terrorism: State, society and the dynamics of political violence, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139178006.
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  - ANGELA BRINTLINGER, ILYA V. I. N. I. T. S. K. Y., ed. Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture. University of Toronto Press, 2007.
  - Miller, M. A. Freud au pays des soviets. Paris: Les Empecheurs de penser en rond/Le Seuil, 2001.
  - Miller, M. A. The Russian Revolutionary Emigres, 1830-1870. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
  - Miller, M. A. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY EMIGRES, 1825-1870. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
  - Miller, M. A. KROTPOTKIN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
- Academic Articles
  - Miller, Martin A. “Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science. By Daniel P. Todes.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xx+856. $39.95.” The Journal of Modern History 88, no. 3 (September 2016): 732–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/687473.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “OBITUARY: Michael Confino (1926-2010).” Russian Review 70 (April 2011): 365–66.
  - Miller, Martin A. “Ordinary Terrorism in Historical Perspective.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 2 (2008): 125–54.
  - Miller, Martin A. “Warren Lerner, 1929-2007 - In memoriam.” Slavic Review 67, no. 3 (2008): 816–17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0037677900016600.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Fredric S. Zuckerman. The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World.” The American Historical Review 109 (June 2004): 1005–6. https://doi.org/10.1086/587020.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Reviews of Books:The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World Fredric S. Zuckerman.” The American Historical Review 109, no. 3 (June 2004): 1005–6. https://doi.org/10.1086/530722.
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  - Miller, M. A. “The Bolshevik Cinematic Intelligentsia.” Vlast’ I Nauka. Nauka I Vlast’, 2003.
  - Miller, Martin A. “Review of Anarchist Portraits by Paul Avrich.” The American Historical Review 95 (June 1990): 784–784. https://doi.org/10.2307/2164297.
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  - Miller, M. A. “The origins and development of Russian psychoanalysis, 1909-1930.” The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 14, no. 1 (January 1986): 125–35. https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.1.1986.14.1.125.
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  - Miller, M. A. “Soviet psychology: psychology in utopia.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 227, no. 4694 (March 1985): 1574–75. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.227.4694.1574-a.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Soviet Psychology.” Science 227 (March 1985): 1574–75.
  - Miller, Martin A. “Review of Revolutionary Morality: A Psychosexual Analysis of Twelve Revolutionists by William H. Blanchard.” Russian Review 44 (January 1985): 71–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/129261.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Review of Michael Bakunin: Roots of Apocalypse by Arthur P. Mendel.” Russian Review 41 (October 1982): 478–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/129859.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Review of Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective. by Marshall S. Shatz.” Slavic Review 41 (July 1982): 350–350. https://doi.org/10.2307/2496374.
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  - Miller, Martin. “Rothman Revisited.” Crime and Social Justice, July 1982, 98–103.
  - Miller, Martin A., and Stephen Osofsky. “Peter Kropotkin.” Russian Review 40, no. 1 (January 1981): 62–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/128741.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Review of Sergei Nechaev by Philip Pomper.” The American Historical Review 85 (June 1980): 684–85. https://doi.org/10.2307/1855047.
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  - Miller, Martin A., and Woodford McClellan. “Revolutionary Exiles: The Russians in the First International and the Paris Commune.” The American Historical Review 84, no. 5 (December 1979): 1432–1432. https://doi.org/10.2307/1861612.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Social Thought in Tsarist Russia: The Quest for a General Science of Society, 1861-1917.Alexander Vucinich.” American Journal of Sociology 85, no. 3 (November 1979): 720–22. https://doi.org/10.1086/227082.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Review of Petr Tkachev: The Critic as Jacobin by Deborah Hardy.” The Journal of Modern History 50 (September 1978): 579–81.
  - Miller, Martin A. “Review of The Confession of Mikhail Bakunin by Mikhail Bakunin; Robert C. Howes.” The American Historical Review 83 (February 1978): 232–232. https://doi.org/10.2307/1866047.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Anarchism vs. Marxism in the Russian Revolution. A Review of Recent Literature.” International Labor and Working Class History, May 1976, 28–37.
  - Miller, Martin A. “Review of The Essential Kropotkin by Emile Capouya; Keitha Tompkins.” Russian Review 35 (April 1976): 203–4. https://doi.org/10.2307/127839.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Review of Selected Writings by Michael Bakunin; Arthur Lehning.” Russian Review 35 (January 1976): 104–6. https://doi.org/10.2307/127660.
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  - Miller, Martin A. “Research Note on the Study of Socialism and Labor History in Paris.” Newsletter: European Labor and Working Class History, May 1973, 12–13.
- Book Sections
  - Miller, M. A. “Psychiatric diagnosis as political critique: Russia in war and revolution.” In Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-22, 245–56, 2014.
  - Miller, M. A. “The concept of revolutionary insanity in Russian history.” In Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture, 105–16, 2006.
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