Boris Mironov | |
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Бори́с Никола́евич Миро́нов | |
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Nationality | Soviet Union (until 1991) / Russian (since 1991) |
Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
Known for | Researcher-encyclopedist of social history of Russian Empire. |
Scientific career | |
Fields | history of Russia, social history, historical sociology, economic history, anthropometric history, historiography, demography, cliometrics |
Institutions | Saint Petersburg State University |
Boris Nikolaevich Mironov (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Миро́нов) (born September 21, 1942) is a Soviet and Russian historian, cliometrist, specialist in the field of historical sociology, social, economic and demographic history of Russia, anthropometric history and research methodology.
Mironov was born in 1942 in Marks, Saratov Region (USSR).
Graduated from Leningrad State University, the Department of History (1965).
Worked at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1970–2016) and at Herzen University (1978–1981).
Doctor of Historical Sciences (1983), Professor of St. Petersburg State University (1990–1993 and from 2000 to the present).
Taught at universities in Canada, the United States, France, Germany and Japan (1993–2003).
Author of over 390 works [ru], of which over a hundred articles have been published in leading international journals in English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and other languages. Two monographs (“The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700—1917” and “The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700—1917”) were translated into English and Chinese.[1][2][3]