![]() ![]() ĭaniel R. Brower, 1905-1987 Acknowledgementsĭuring the years of researching and writing this work I have accumulated a host of debts, both institutional and personal. At an early stage in this book's formulation I found a place of nurturing in a seminar at the Centre des Hautes Etudes of the University of Paris, where professors Louis Bergeron and Marcel Roncayolo broadened their discussion of urban history to include historical trends in distant Russia. I went through a difficult period of reexamination and reconceptualization at about the time Professor Michael Hamm was organizing a research group to study the history of Russia's largest cities in the late imperial period. ![]() This fortuitous event, together with Professor Hamm's readiness to include among the participants a scholar without a city of his own, gave my project a much-needed rooting in the expertise of this group of scholars. More recently, colleagues in the Social Theory and Comparative History Colloquium at the University of California, Davis, applied their critical skills to a paper I wrote discussing important themes in Russian urban history. In various verbal and manuscript forms this book has received a thoughtful reception from individual scholars, including Joseph Bradley, Fred Carstensen, Adele Lindenmyer, Reginald Zelnik, Kay Flavell, Ben Eklof, and Michael Hamm. Their interest and assistance have helped my project survive to see the light of day. ![]()
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