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Robert Johnson has written on labour and labour unrest, peasant family life, and other social and economic issues, as well as quantitative research methods. He is the author of Peasant and Proletarian: Moscow’s Working Class at the End of the Nineteenth Century (1979), and co-author of The Seam Allowance: Industrial Homework in Canada's Garment Industry (1982). He also edited A Half-Century of Silence: The 1937 Census of USSR (Russian Studies in History, Summer 1992).  He has produced two three-hour radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting System: “In the Stalin Archives” (2004) and “The Cold War Declassified” (2006).  From 1989 to 2001 he served as Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies; during most of that period he was also Principal Investigator of the Stalin Era Research and Archives Project, which received major funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Recent articles include: “I lost it at the market: Thoughts on the political economy of post-Soviet Russia” and “’The Greatest Tragedy of the Twentieth Century’: An Interview with Viktor Daniloy” (both 2006). He is currently (2007-09) Chair of the Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto at Mississauga.