Felix Cowan

Professor Cowan specializes in the history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, with research interests in political culture, urban history, and everyday life. His first book, The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918, is forthcoming from University of Toronto Press. This monograph focuses on cheap newspapers published for poor readers and uses these sources to explore an emerging democratic political culture in the early twentieth century Russian Empire. Professor Cowan's other published work explores themes of civil society, gender identity, and lower-class politics and culture in the revolutionary era of Russian and Soviet history. He is in the early stages of a new project on the history of democratic ideas, experiments, and reforms in Russia.