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Michael G. Smith

Michael G. Smith teaches undergraduate courses in Global History, Medieval and Modern Russian History, Political Violence and Conspiracy, and History of Aviation and the Space Age. For brief descriptions to these courses please see the link below.

Professor Smith's research interests include Soviet nationalities and language policies (with a focus on Azerbaijan), the Russian revolution and Bolshevik culture, and the comparative dimensions of Russian and American rocketry, space science, and astronautics. His book, Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953 appeared in Mouton de Gruyter's series, Contributions to the Sociology of Language (Berlin and New York, 1998). He has also published a series of articles and book chapters on the Russian revolution in Baku, Azerbaijan. He is currently working on a new research project, taking shape in book and article manuscripts: "Russian and American Approaches to Rocketry and Space Travel in the Twentieth Century."

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