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Ronald Park Bobroff

After growing up in New Hampshire and attending college in Philadelphia, Ron Bobroff spent most of the next 3 decades in graduate school and teaching positions in North Carolina and Georgia. In 2019 he returned to New England (RI), to carry on his teaching and research about Europe at Bryant University.

Degrees Awarded

Ph D, Duke University

M Sc, London School of Economics and Political Science

MA, Duke University

BA, University of Pennsylvania

Ph D, Duke University

M Sc, London School of Economics and Political Science

MA, Duke University

BA, University of Pennsylvania

Selected Publications

Bobroff, R., En Garde! The Influence of Elite Masculinity on Russia’s Decision for War in July 1914, Slavica Publishers, 2022.

Bobroff, R. P., The Question of the Turkish Straits during World War I, Slavica Publishers (Indiana University), 2021.

Bobroff, R., Review of David Stevenson, 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, H-Diplo/H-Net, 2019.

Bobroff, R. P., Squabbling over the Spoils: Late Imperial Russia’s Rivalry with France in the Near East, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

Bobroff, R., “The origins of the First World War: the Russian role”, Online forum post, 2014.

Bobroff, R., Devolution in Wartime: Sergei D. Sazonov and the Future of Poland, 1910-1916 , International History Review , 2000.

McFadden, R.,Zywiak, W. H.,Bobroff, R.,Niu, G., War and Money in Ngram Viewer, Advances in Historical Studies.

Zywiak, W. H.,Bobroff, R.,Niu, G., Black Swan Years in American English, French, German, Hebrew, and Russian: Years that Reverberate in Ngram Viewer, Advances in Historical Studies.

Bobroff, R., Roads to Glory, Academic Studies Press, 2022.

Bobroff, R., War accepted but unsought: Russia’s growing militancy and the July Crisis, 1914, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Bobroff, R., Imperial Russia's Use and Abuse of Proxies During the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, Fletcher Security Review, 2014.

Bobroff, R., Roads to Glory: Late Imperial Russia and the Turkish Straits, I. B. Tauris, 2006.

Bobroff, R., Behind the Balkan Wars: Russian Policy toward Bulgaria and the Turkish Straits, 1912–13, The Russian Review, 2000.