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Professor Dowler's scholarly work investigates the history of Russian conservatism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  His books include a study of ‘native soil' conservatism, a movement during the 1850s to 1870s among such members of the conservative intelligentsia as the novelist Dostoevsky which opposed the fashionable radicalism of the time and proposed a unique path for Russian development; and a biography of the leading ideologist of the intelligentsia conservatism of the period, Apollon Grigor'ev.  His monograph on imperial elementary education policies toward non-Russian nationalities in the Volga district from 1865-1917, Classroom and Empire: Schooling Russia’s Eastern Nationalities, 1865-1917, was published in 2001.  He is now writing a book about 1913 in Russia.