David Moon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Moon |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Moon |
| SIGNATURE | MOON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6907-9197 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Anna Mazanik, Sanitizing Moscow
National gimmicks as soft power strategy
This article introduces the concept of the national gimmick – a performative, stylised persona derived from professional wrestling – as an effective lens for analysing government nation branding and soft power strategies. Using WWE’s Clash at the Castle and its 2022 partnership with the Welsh Government as a case study, the article demonstrates how governments employ entertainment spectacles to project curated national identities to global audien…
Emancipation
Late imperial peasants
In his influential book on France published in 1976, Eugen Weber argued that peasant identities were changed as a result of the development of the transport network and urbanisation, schooling, political participation, and military service in a national conscript army. This chapter reviews the arguments on the 'peasantisation' of Weber's 'agencies of change' in late imperial Russia in the light of more recent work on Russian peasants, such as San…
Scott Reynolds Nelson. Oceans of Grain
Journal Article Scott Reynolds Nelson. Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. Get access Scott Reynolds Nelson. Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Pp. 368. Cloth $32.00. David Moon David Moon University of York, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, P…
‘Huge fan of the drama’
On June 12 th 2019, in the middle of the UK Conservative party’s leadership contest, journalist Marie le Conte tweeted ‘so this is my first proper leadership contest as an actual Westminster person and honestly it’s such a hoot...huge fan of the drama’. This tweet is exemplary of a wider phenomenon. Politics is the activity through which power and resources are allocated across society – who gets what, when and how. Politics, and what it does to …
Alison K. Smith, Cabbage and Caviar
Kayfabe, Smartdom and Marking Out
Donald Trump has enjoyed a nearly 30-year relationship with World Wrestling Entertainment as a business partner, fan, in-ring performer and 2013 Hall of Fame Inductee. Noting this long running involvement, it has become a widespread contention that Trump’s style as a political campaigner owes a debt to his experiences within the world of professional wrestling. Taking such claims seriously, this article argues that an engagement with concepts dev…
Labouring under a delusion? Scotland’s national questions and the crisis of the Scottish Labour Party
In recent years, the Scottish Labour Party has lost its once dominant position in Scottish politics. Its support has collapsed, and it now faces multiple political challenges, relating both to cleavages in Scottish politics over the constitution and Brexit, and to divisions within the party over its leadership and direction. Employing semi-structured elite interviews with key figures within the party hierarchy and focus groups with grassroots act…
Predictions, Pollification, and Pol Profs
It has been noted that UK political punditry has a ‘Corbyn problem’: an underlying hostility to the Corbyn project and its supporters. As the Corbyn era draws to a close, we take stock and argue that the Corbyn problem was never fully ‘about’ Corbyn. Instead, it was the outward manifestation of a conjunction of tendencies present in contemporary UK politics: the prominence of a relatively small group of ‘intensely involved’ individuals driving do…
Lost in the Process? The impact of devolution on abortion law in the United Kingdom
Using the case study of abortion policy across the United Kingdom, this article takes a feminist institutionalist approach to advance our understanding of state architecture and party competition within decentralised political systems. Despite increasing divergences across the United Kingdom in relation to abortion policy, contemporary debates around abortion access have rarely become politicised. Moreover, as this article demonstrates, when they…
Ian W. Campbell, Knowledge and the Ends of Empire
B oris B. G orshkov . Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin
Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin: Accommodation, Survival, Resistance, by Boris B. Gorshkov, aims to present, primarily to a student readership, a history of the Russian peasantry “in the light of the most recent research” (1). The author explores a range of topics over the period from the seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries: the rise, development, and decline of serfdom; relations between the state, lords, and peasant families and …
The role of cultural production in celebrity politics
This article draws out the significant similarities between the political insurgencies of Jesse Ventura in 1999 and Donald Trump in 2016, charting their own premillennial political collaborations as members of the Reform Party, before identifying wider lessons for studies of contemporary celebrity politicians through a comparison of their individual campaigns. Its analysis is based upon the concept of the 'politainer', introduced by Conley and Sc…
The curious case of the marginalisation or distortion of Russian and Soviet environmental history in global environmental histories
For too long, 'global environmental history' has not been truly 'global', but has been shaped by the perspectives and linguistic skills of its practitioners, who have generally, but not solely, been based in the Anglophone world. This is evident until recently in the relatively limited consideration of the environmental history of Russia and the Soviet Union-the largest country in the world-in works on global environmental history, and in the dis…
Welsh devolution and the problem of legislative competence
Local Places, Global Processes
Local Places, Global Processes
Steppe by Steppe
This article examines the environment of the steppe of Southern Ukraine. It is based on a journey across the steppe; what I learned from people, especially scientists, I met; and research in printed sources. The article aims to be an example of how environmental historians can integrate fieldwork with more conventional historical research. The first section considers ‘nature transformed’. Since the conquest by the Russian Empire in the eighteenth…
Ryan Tucker Jones, Empire of Extinction
Works in Progress
Reviewed by: Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930–1963 by Jenny Leigh Smith David Moon (bio) Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930–1963. By Jenny Leigh Smith. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 288. $85. Many histories of Soviet agriculture argue for a straight line from Stalin’s collectivization drive in 1930 to Khrushchev’s humiliating decision in 1963 to import grain from the United S…
We’re Internationalists, not Nationalists’
The bitter arguments within the Labour Party in Wales in 2007 preceding its agreement to enter coalition with Plaid Cymru in the National Assembly have faced little substantive analysis, and the specific behind-closed-doors debates at the special conference held to vote on the deal have remained undisclosed. This paper fulfils both tasks, revealing how actors’ arguments tapped into historically resonant traditions in Welsh Labour thought, coalesc…
Janet M. Hartley, Siberia
This book presents a history of Siberia and its people as part of successive Russian states governed from far‐off Moscow and St Petersburg. The book begins with the start of Russian conquest of the lands beyond the Ural mountains in the late‐sixteenth century and brings us right up to the present day. The author includes regular vignettes that seem to encapsulate this history. In 1591, Ivan the Terrible’s youngest son was murdered in suspicious c…
The Steppe as Fertile Ground for Innovation in Conceptualizing Human-Nature Relationships
Why the Welsh Said Yes, but the Northerners No
This article focuses on the role played by the Labour Party in two devolution referendums, in Wales in 1997 and in the North-East region in 2004. Comparing the positive vote of the Welsh and the negative vote of the North shows how the governing party – the Labour Party which has also been historically dominant in each of these regions – contributed to the contrasting outcome. Our argument is that dominant parties impact both in their formal (str…
Casework, Issue Positions, and Voting in Congressional Elections
Democratic theory suggests that representation should be associated with both service and policy responsiveness. There is, however, serious question about whether either kind of responsiveness plays any significant role in the outcomes of congressional elections and about whether greater service responsiveness eliminates the need for policy responsiveness. Part of the problem with resolving these questions has been with the kind of data available…
Conceptualising the Multi-Level Party
While party research has seen a number of conceptual developments in recent years, it has not kept pace with parties becoming more territorial as a result of the increasing importance of sub-national and supranational governance. This article lays down a framework for conceptualising and analysing multi-level parties (MLPs). We propose a synthesis of the formal and non-formal aspects of power; the former highlighting party rules and procedures, t…
Kayfabe, Smartdom and Marking Out
Donald Trump has enjoyed a nearly 30-year relationship with World Wrestling Entertainment as a business partner, fan, in-ring performer and 2013 Hall of Fame Inductee. Noting this long running involvement, it has become a widespread contention that Trump’s style as a political campaigner owes a debt to his experiences within the world of professional wrestling. Taking such claims seriously, this article argues that an engagement with concepts dev…
Peasant Migration and the Settlement of Russia's Frontiers, 1550–1897
This article surveys the expansion of Russian peasant settlement from 1550, when most of the 6·5 million peasants lived in the forest-heartland of Muscovy, to 1897, when around fifty million Russian peasants lived throughout large parts of the immense Russian empire. It seeks to explain how this massive expansion was achieved with reference to different facets of the ‘frontier’: the political frontier of the Russian state; the environmental front…
Tissue on the Bones
The ‘new institutionalist’ approaches have recently been beneficially expanded by the introduction of a body of work which falls under the collective label of discursive-constructivist institutionalism. This article argues that the discursive analytical focus of these approaches would be complemented and extended by the application of the post-structuralist conceptual tool bag offered by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. In so doing it advocates…
The role of cultural production in celebrity politics
This article draws out the significant similarities between the political insurgencies of Jesse Ventura in 1999 and Donald Trump in 2016, charting their own premillennial political collaborations as members of the Reform Party, before identifying wider lessons for studies of contemporary celebrity politicians through a comparison of their individual campaigns. Its analysis is based upon the concept of the 'politainer', introduced by Conley and Sc…
Citizens' Contacts with Bureaucratic and Legislative Officials
This paper draws on both the bureaucratic and congressional literature to develop and test a model linking bureaucratic dissatisfaction with citizen- initiated contact with members of Congress. It has been argued by Fiorina and others that bureaucratic malfunctioning creates opportunities for congressional intervention which aids constituents and reaps electoral benefits for elected representatives. While this view has been widely accepted by sch…
Peasants into Russian citizens? A comparative perspective
Predictions, Pollification, and Pol Profs
It has been noted that UK political punditry has a ‘Corbyn problem’: an underlying hostility to the Corbyn project and its supporters. As the Corbyn era draws to a close, we take stock and argue that the Corbyn problem was never fully ‘about’ Corbyn. Instead, it was the outward manifestation of a conjunction of tendencies present in contemporary UK politics: the prominence of a relatively small group of ‘intensely involved’ individuals driving do…
The determinants of turnout in presidential elections
Rhetoric and policy learning
One of the benefits of multi-level systems of governments, according to their supporters, is that their plurality of governmental institutions/levels provides the scope for valuable policy innovation and learning. One vocal supporter of this view has been former Labour First Minister of Wales (2000–2009) Rhodri Morgan, who labelled the United Kingdom’s devolved bodies “laboratories” for the formulation of new ideas to be subsequently shared and l…
Reassessing Russian Serfdom
Labouring under a delusion? Scotland’s national questions and the crisis of the Scottish Labour Party
In recent years, the Scottish Labour Party has lost its once dominant position in Scottish politics. Its support has collapsed, and it now faces multiple political challenges, relating both to cleavages in Scottish politics over the constitution and Brexit, and to divisions within the party over its leadership and direction. Employing semi-structured elite interviews with key figures within the party hierarchy and focus groups with grassroots act…
We’re Internationalists, not Nationalists’
The bitter arguments within the Labour Party in Wales in 2007 preceding its agreement to enter coalition with Plaid Cymru in the National Assembly have faced little substantive analysis, and the specific behind-closed-doors debates at the special conference held to vote on the deal have remained undisclosed. This paper fulfils both tasks, revealing how actors’ arguments tapped into historically resonant traditions in Welsh Labour thought, coalesc…
The Debate over Climate Change in the Steppe Region in Nineteenth-Century Russia
The Russian ReviewVolume 69, Issue 2 p. 251-275 The Debate over Climate Change in the Steppe Region in Nineteenth-Century Russia DAVID MOON, DAVID MOON Professor of Russian History at Durham University, UK.Search for more papers by this author DAVID MOON, DAVID MOON Professor of Russian History at Durham University, UK.Search for more papers by this author First published: 11 March 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2010.00565.xCitations: 9…
In the Russians’ steppes
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wheat varieties from the Russian steppes were introduced on the Great Plains of the USA, a region with a similar environment. The introduction was partly a by-product of the migration of German farmers from the steppes to the Great Plains in the 1870s. The US Department of Agriculture, eager to promote American wheat production in a competitive world market for grain in which Russia was in the…
The Environmental History of the Russian Steppes
This article examines aspects of the environmental history of the Russian steppes in the long term and in a comparative framework by focusing on the work of the prominent Russian scientist Vasilii Dokuchaev in response to the drought and harvest failure that afflicted large parts of the steppes in 1891. Dokuchaev analysed the causes of the disaster in the long-term context of natural and human-induced changes in the environment. He drew up a plan…
Electoral Coalitions and Institutional Stability
While theoretical results demonstrate that majority rule is unstable, there are few documented cases of cyclical majority preferences. This paper uses survey data on the preferences of citizens for metropolitan reform to document one such case. The paper demonstrates voting cycles over proposed reforms for the whole electorate, ethnic voting blocs, and plausible coalitions within the electorate. For this case, intransitive coalition preferences a…
Lost in the Process? The impact of devolution on abortion law in the United Kingdom
Using the case study of abortion policy across the United Kingdom, this article takes a feminist institutionalist approach to advance our understanding of state architecture and party competition within decentralised political systems. Despite increasing divergences across the United Kingdom in relation to abortion policy, contemporary debates around abortion access have rarely become politicised. Moreover, as this article demonstrates, when they…
Welsh devolution and the problem of legislative competence
Steppe by Steppe
This article examines the environment of the steppe of Southern Ukraine. It is based on a journey across the steppe; what I learned from people, especially scientists, I met; and research in printed sources. The article aims to be an example of how environmental historians can integrate fieldwork with more conventional historical research. The first section considers ‘nature transformed’. Since the conquest by the Russian Empire in the eighteenth…
The Steppe as Fertile Ground for Innovation in Conceptualizing Human-Nature Relationships
Estimating the peasant population of late imperial Russia from the 1897 census
HISTORIANS OF LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA often make general statements concerning the absolute and relative size of the peasantry. Robinson, in his classic book Rural Russia under the Old Regime, noted that the peasant population of 'European Russia' numbered 79 million out of a total population of 93 million (a proportion of 84%). He took his figures from the 1897 census.' In another standard work, Riasanovsky stated: 'Peasants constituted the vast ma…
Electoral Coalitions and Institutional Stability
While theoretical results demonstrate that majority rule is unstable, there are few documented cases of cyclical majority preferences. This paper uses survey data on the preferences of citizens for metropolitan reform to document one such case. The paper demonstrates voting cycles over proposed reforms for the whole electorate, ethnic voting blocs, and plausible coalitions within the electorate. For this case, intransitive coalition preferences a…
Recent books on the Russian peasantry
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The determinants of turnout in presidential elections
Russian Peasant Volunteers at the Beginning of the Crimean War
In October 1853 war broke out between Russia and Turkey. The following March Britain and France joined the war on the side of the Turks. In the first seven months of the war, the Russian government announced three regular recruit levies, several appeals for volunteers and the formation of a temporary naval militia. News of these measures filtered down to seignorial peasants (pomeshchich'i krest'iane) through official channels and as rumors that w…
The Great Reforms
Citizens' Contacts with Bureaucratic and Legislative Officials
This paper draws on both the bureaucratic and congressional literature to develop and test a model linking bureaucratic dissatisfaction with citizen- initiated contact with members of Congress. It has been argued by Fiorina and others that bureaucratic malfunctioning creates opportunities for congressional intervention which aids constituents and reaps electoral benefits for elected representatives. While this view has been widely accepted by sch…
Casework, Issue Positions, and Voting in Congressional Elections
Democratic theory suggests that representation should be associated with both service and policy responsiveness. There is, however, serious question about whether either kind of responsiveness plays any significant role in the outcomes of congressional elections and about whether greater service responsiveness eliminates the need for policy responsiveness. Part of the problem with resolving these questions has been with the kind of data available…
Estimating the peasant population of late imperial Russia from the 1897 census
HISTORIANS OF LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA often make general statements concerning the absolute and relative size of the peasantry. Robinson, in his classic book Rural Russia under the Old Regime, noted that the peasant population of 'European Russia' numbered 79 million out of a total population of 93 million (a proportion of 84%). He took his figures from the 1897 census.' In another standard work, Riasanovsky stated: 'Peasants constituted the vast ma…
Peasants into Russian citizens? A comparative perspective
Reassessing Russian Serfdom
Peasant Migration and the Settlement of Russia's Frontiers, 1550–1897
This article surveys the expansion of Russian peasant settlement from 1550, when most of the 6·5 million peasants lived in the forest-heartland of Muscovy, to 1897, when around fifty million Russian peasants lived throughout large parts of the immense Russian empire. It seeks to explain how this massive expansion was achieved with reference to different facets of the ‘frontier’: the political frontier of the Russian state; the environmental front…
Peasant rebels under Stalin
Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 312; notes; glossary; bibliography; index. £45. ISBN 0 19 510197 9
Douglas R. Weiner, A Little Corner of Freedom
Feliks Shtilmark (Translated from Russian by G.H. Harper), History of the Russian Zapovedniks 1895-1995
The Environmental History of the Russian Steppes
This article examines aspects of the environmental history of the Russian steppes in the long term and in a comparative framework by focusing on the work of the prominent Russian scientist Vasilii Dokuchaev in response to the drought and harvest failure that afflicted large parts of the steppes in 1891. Dokuchaev analysed the causes of the disaster in the long-term context of natural and human-induced changes in the environment. He drew up a plan…
In the Russians’ steppes
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wheat varieties from the Russian steppes were introduced on the Great Plains of the USA, a region with a similar environment. The introduction was partly a by-product of the migration of German farmers from the steppes to the Great Plains in the 1870s. The US Department of Agriculture, eager to promote American wheat production in a competitive world market for grain in which Russia was in the…
Conceptualising the Multi-Level Party
While party research has seen a number of conceptual developments in recent years, it has not kept pace with parties becoming more territorial as a result of the increasing importance of sub-national and supranational governance. This article lays down a framework for conceptualising and analysing multi-level parties (MLPs). We propose a synthesis of the formal and non-formal aspects of power; the former highlighting party rules and procedures, t…
The Debate over Climate Change in the Steppe Region in Nineteenth-Century Russia
The Russian ReviewVolume 69, Issue 2 p. 251-275 The Debate over Climate Change in the Steppe Region in Nineteenth-Century Russia DAVID MOON, DAVID MOON Professor of Russian History at Durham University, UK.Search for more papers by this author DAVID MOON, DAVID MOON Professor of Russian History at Durham University, UK.Search for more papers by this author First published: 11 March 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2010.00565.xCitations: 9…
Autonomy and alienated subjectivity
Tissue on the Bones
The ‘new institutionalist’ approaches have recently been beneficially expanded by the introduction of a body of work which falls under the collective label of discursive-constructivist institutionalism. This article argues that the discursive analytical focus of these approaches would be complemented and extended by the application of the post-structuralist conceptual tool bag offered by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. In so doing it advocates…
Rhetoric and policy learning
One of the benefits of multi-level systems of governments, according to their supporters, is that their plurality of governmental institutions/levels provides the scope for valuable policy innovation and learning. One vocal supporter of this view has been former Labour First Minister of Wales (2000–2009) Rhodri Morgan, who labelled the United Kingdom’s devolved bodies “laboratories” for the formulation of new ideas to be subsequently shared and l…
Why the Welsh Said Yes, but the Northerners No
This article focuses on the role played by the Labour Party in two devolution referendums, in Wales in 1997 and in the North-East region in 2004. Comparing the positive vote of the Welsh and the negative vote of the North shows how the governing party – the Labour Party which has also been historically dominant in each of these regions – contributed to the contrasting outcome. Our argument is that dominant parties impact both in their formal (str…
Paul Josephson, Nicolai Dronin, Ruben Mnatsakanian, Aleh Cherp, Dmitry Efremenko and Vladislav Larin, An Environmental History of Russia
We’re Internationalists, not Nationalists’
The bitter arguments within the Labour Party in Wales in 2007 preceding its agreement to enter coalition with Plaid Cymru in the National Assembly have faced little substantive analysis, and the specific behind-closed-doors debates at the special conference held to vote on the deal have remained undisclosed. This paper fulfils both tasks, revealing how actors’ arguments tapped into historically resonant traditions in Welsh Labour thought, coalesc…
Janet M. Hartley, Siberia
This book presents a history of Siberia and its people as part of successive Russian states governed from far‐off Moscow and St Petersburg. The book begins with the start of Russian conquest of the lands beyond the Ural mountains in the late‐sixteenth century and brings us right up to the present day. The author includes regular vignettes that seem to encapsulate this history. In 1591, Ivan the Terrible’s youngest son was murdered in suspicious c…
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