Jonathan Daly
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Daly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Daly |
| SIGNATURE | DALY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7452-2042 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Remaking the World
Designing for possibility in public space
The design of urban public space is inherently problematic because the range of its possible uses and meanings is broad and unpredictable. This paper engages this problematic through the lens of Gibson’s theory of ‘affordances’—the ways the material world affords for human desires. We first explore some conceptual and methodological problems of the theory of affordances and its application in understanding and designing public space. These dimens…
Counterterrorism between the Wars
Russian Populism
Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia’s world-historical literature, music and art in the 19th century. This book offers the fullest and most authoritative account of the rise, proliferation and influence of populist values and ideolo…
Nathan Phillips Square
Swiss‐Army Knife of Social Control
Punitive exile was imposed more extensively in late imperial Russia than in any other major contemporaneous country. Roughly one‐half of exiles were convicted by courts for heinous nonpolitical crimes, for which the penalty would be death in European countries. The other half of exiles were sent largely by peasant communities wishing to dispose of unproductive and otherwise unwanted members. Most exiles were transported to Siberia, but significan…
Robert Henderson. Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia
Vladimir L’vovich Burtsev (1862–1942) was an advocate of political terror, a dogged investigative journalist, a vehement opponent of autocratic government both before and after 1917, and a talented literary scholar. Although Burtsev bore three impressive sobriquets and figures in countless memoirs, Robert Henderson is his first biographer, with Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia: A Revolutionary in the Time of Tsarism and Bolshev…
A Scholar with a Sense of Mission
On May 17, 2018, Richard Pipes died quietly in a nursing home in Belmont, Massachusetts, to which he had been moved from a Cambridge hospital the day before. He had lived ninety‐four years and ten months. He wrote more books and articles on more topics and phases of Russia’s past, from Muscovy to late Soviet and even post‐Soviet times, than any other Western scholar. He was the most influential practicing American historian in the field of Soviet…
Underground Petersburg
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution
Mark Lawrence Schrad. Vodka Politics
The main argument of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State is that throughout Russia's history “an unresponsive autocratic system ... used vodka to keep the people disoriented while profiting handsomely from their misery” (p. 248). Consequently, according to Mark Lawrence Schrad, excessive alcohol abuse yielded enormous state revenue from alcohol sales and contributed directly to military defeat (and vict…
An Impossible Dream Becomes Reality
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJonathan DalyJonathan Daly is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has authored Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866–1905 (1998), The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906–1917 (2004), and The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western Civilization (2014) and co‐edited Russia in War and Revolution, 1914–19…
Machine Guns, Hysteria, and the February Revolution
Countless eyewitnesses to the February Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd claimed to have heard or seen machine guns firing from bell towers and rooftops at demonstrators below. Rumors of vile government officials orchestrating these attacks circulated widely within the population and fed upon, and into, hostility toward the Old Regime. Yet an investigating commission of the Provisional Government, along with other objective sources, suggests that t…
Political Crime in Late Imperial Russia
Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia. Marc Raeff
The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War . Hsi-Huey Liang
On the Significance of Emergency Legislation in Late Imperial Russia
Not one inhabitant is shielded from theproizvol[arbitrary power] of gendarmes.-St. Petersburg Governor, 1906We are incapable of imagining a governor who cannot, according to his discretion and without a trial, summarily arrest, exile and impose ruinous fines.-Vladimir Gessen, 1908Commentators on the imperial Russian polity have regarded the Security Law of 14 August 1881, which invested administrative officials with broad discretionary powers, as…
Policy And Police
Volume 2 of Viator has a strong medieval bias: out of twenty-two articles, only three touch on the Renaissance.Henry Ansgar Kelly's "The Metamorphoses of the Eden Serpent during the Middle Ages and Renaissance" focuses on the lady-faced Eden serpent of medieval literature, drama, and art and does not brood over the gradual masculinization of this human-headed tempter in the sixteenth century.In "Mehmed II the Conqueror and his Presumed Knowledge …
Could Charles I Be Trusted? The Royalist Case, 1642-1646
The followers of King Charles I in the Civil War, long among the whipping boys of English history, have been receiving better treatment since the Whig interpretation of the seventeenth century lost its pristine vigour. This is particularly true of their constitutional position as set forth in the great outpouring of manifestoes and pamphlets during the war. Edward Hyde, perhaps the key figure in this aspect of royalism, has recently profited from…
Political Crime in Late Imperial Russia
On the Significance of Emergency Legislation in Late Imperial Russia
Not one inhabitant is shielded from theproizvol[arbitrary power] of gendarmes.-St. Petersburg Governor, 1906We are incapable of imagining a governor who cannot, according to his discretion and without a trial, summarily arrest, exile and impose ruinous fines.-Vladimir Gessen, 1908Commentators on the imperial Russian polity have regarded the Security Law of 14 August 1881, which invested administrative officials with broad discretionary powers, as…
Could Charles I Be Trusted? The Royalist Case, 1642-1646
The followers of King Charles I in the Civil War, long among the whipping boys of English history, have been receiving better treatment since the Whig interpretation of the seventeenth century lost its pristine vigour. This is particularly true of their constitutional position as set forth in the great outpouring of manifestoes and pamphlets during the war. Edward Hyde, perhaps the key figure in this aspect of royalism, has recently profited from…
Could Charles I Be Trusted? The Royalist Case, 1642-1646
The followers of King Charles I in the Civil War, long among the whipping boys of English history, have been receiving better treatment since the Whig interpretation of the seventeenth century lost its pristine vigour. This is particularly true of their constitutional position as set forth in the great outpouring of manifestoes and pamphlets during the war. Edward Hyde, perhaps the key figure in this aspect of royalism, has recently profited from…
Policy And Police
Volume 2 of Viator has a strong medieval bias: out of twenty-two articles, only three touch on the Renaissance.Henry Ansgar Kelly's "The Metamorphoses of the Eden Serpent during the Middle Ages and Renaissance" focuses on the lady-faced Eden serpent of medieval literature, drama, and art and does not brood over the gradual masculinization of this human-headed tempter in the sixteenth century.In "Mehmed II the Conqueror and his Presumed Knowledge …
The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War . Hsi-Huey Liang
On the Significance of Emergency Legislation in Late Imperial Russia
Not one inhabitant is shielded from theproizvol[arbitrary power] of gendarmes.-St. Petersburg Governor, 1906We are incapable of imagining a governor who cannot, according to his discretion and without a trial, summarily arrest, exile and impose ruinous fines.-Vladimir Gessen, 1908Commentators on the imperial Russian polity have regarded the Security Law of 14 August 1881, which invested administrative officials with broad discretionary powers, as…
Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia. Marc Raeff
Political Crime in Late Imperial Russia
Machine Guns, Hysteria, and the February Revolution
Countless eyewitnesses to the February Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd claimed to have heard or seen machine guns firing from bell towers and rooftops at demonstrators below. Rumors of vile government officials orchestrating these attacks circulated widely within the population and fed upon, and into, hostility toward the Old Regime. Yet an investigating commission of the Provisional Government, along with other objective sources, suggests that t…
An Impossible Dream Becomes Reality
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJonathan DalyJonathan Daly is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has authored Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866–1905 (1998), The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906–1917 (2004), and The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western Civilization (2014) and co‐edited Russia in War and Revolution, 1914–19…
Mark Lawrence Schrad. Vodka Politics
The main argument of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State is that throughout Russia's history “an unresponsive autocratic system ... used vodka to keep the people disoriented while profiting handsomely from their misery” (p. 248). Consequently, according to Mark Lawrence Schrad, excessive alcohol abuse yielded enormous state revenue from alcohol sales and contributed directly to military defeat (and vict…
A Scholar with a Sense of Mission
On May 17, 2018, Richard Pipes died quietly in a nursing home in Belmont, Massachusetts, to which he had been moved from a Cambridge hospital the day before. He had lived ninety‐four years and ten months. He wrote more books and articles on more topics and phases of Russia’s past, from Muscovy to late Soviet and even post‐Soviet times, than any other Western scholar. He was the most influential practicing American historian in the field of Soviet…
Underground Petersburg
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution
Swiss‐Army Knife of Social Control
Punitive exile was imposed more extensively in late imperial Russia than in any other major contemporaneous country. Roughly one‐half of exiles were convicted by courts for heinous nonpolitical crimes, for which the penalty would be death in European countries. The other half of exiles were sent largely by peasant communities wishing to dispose of unproductive and otherwise unwanted members. Most exiles were transported to Siberia, but significan…
Robert Henderson. Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia
Vladimir L’vovich Burtsev (1862–1942) was an advocate of political terror, a dogged investigative journalist, a vehement opponent of autocratic government both before and after 1917, and a talented literary scholar. Although Burtsev bore three impressive sobriquets and figures in countless memoirs, Robert Henderson is his first biographer, with Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia: A Revolutionary in the Time of Tsarism and Bolshev…
Nathan Phillips Square
Russian Populism
Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia’s world-historical literature, music and art in the 19th century. This book offers the fullest and most authoritative account of the rise, proliferation and influence of populist values and ideolo…
Counterterrorism between the Wars
Designing for possibility in public space
The design of urban public space is inherently problematic because the range of its possible uses and meanings is broad and unpredictable. This paper engages this problematic through the lens of Gibson’s theory of ‘affordances’—the ways the material world affords for human desires. We first explore some conceptual and methodological problems of the theory of affordances and its application in understanding and designing public space. These dimens…
Remaking the World
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · History (13 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Classics (6 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Soviet and Russian History (5 works)