About Nigel Raab Nigel Raab is professor of history at Loyola Marymount University, and the author of Democracy Burning? Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850–1914. Books by Nigel Raab All Shook Up The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917-1991 by (author) Nigel Raab Democracy Burning? Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914 by (author) Nigel Raab