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Peter Fraunholtz serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the History and International Affairs departments within the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. He teaches diverse courses including The Vietnam Wars, The World in a Decade: 1990s, Emerging Economies, History of the Soviet Union, and The Mediterranean World. His academic work includes 12 years as Faculty Leader for the NU Dialogue of Civilization program in Morocco and research travel across Germany, Russia, France, Turkey, Hungary, China, and Russia.
Education:
- PhD, Boston College
Research Interests: Professor Fraunholtz specializes in Revolutionary Russia, focusing on civil war-era food supply and grain procurement policies in the Middle Volga region (1918-1920). His archival research in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Penza challenges standard Western narratives of Bolshevik-countryside relations. His work intersects Economic History, Peasant Agency Studies, and Soviet State Formation, examining how weather, harvests, and administrative structures shaped revolutionary outcomes.
Publication Trends: His 2023-2025 publications analyze Penza Province's food-supply apparatus through lenses of rural administration, state-peasant dynamics, and geographic governance. Published in Historical Geography, Agricultural History, and The Russian Review, these works reveal how subcounty bureaucracies reestablished authoritarian control while navigating peasant resistance and environmental constraints during Russia's revolutionary crisis.
