Gregory Martin is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union specializing in the peasantry. His book project, “With the Very Same Enthusiasm”: Institutionalizing Rural Revolution in Ilim-gora, 1921-1941, examines power and institution-building in the early Soviet countryside through a microhistory of the village of Ilim-gora. Eschewing understandings of rural agency limited to resistance and accommodation of state plans, he argues that peasants engaged with the emerging Soviet system in complex and often contradictory ways, influencing the construction of the Soviet regime even as many became its victims. Dr. Martin’s other research interests include the intellectual, social, and political history of rural populations around the globe and the early Soviet Union’s role as a home for global debates about peasantries. Before coming to NYU, Dr. Martin received his PhD from Princeton in 2025 and his BA fromYale in 2016. He also spent 2016-17 as a Fox Fellow at Moscow State University.
