Contributors to This Issue
James Heinzen is Associate Professor of History at Rowan University. His recent publications include "A Campaign Spasm: Graft and the Limits of the 'Campaign' against Bribery after the Great Patriotic War," in Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Development, ed. Juliane Fürst (2006); and "The Art of the Bribe: Corruption and Everyday Practice in the Late Stalinist USSR," Slavic Review 66, 3 (2007): 389–412. His current project is investigating bribery and anti-corruption campaigns in the Soviet Union, 1940s–60s.
Norman W. Ingham is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He has published widely on medieval Slavic and early-modern Russian literature and given many conference papers and lectures on Slovo o polku Igoreve. Currently he is preparing a book with the working title "The Magic of the Igor´ Tale."
Edward L. Keenan is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History, Harvard University. He has recently published Josef Dobrovský and the Origins of the Igor´ Tale (2003) and Rosiis´ki istorychni mify (Russian Historical Myths), 2nd enl. ed. (2003).
Lars T. Lih lives in Montreal, and his main research interest is Bolshevik ideology: its content, origins, and impact. His most recent book, Lenin Rediscovered: "What Is to Be Done?" in Context (2006), will shortly be released in paperback. He is currently working on a short biography of Lenin for the Critical Lives series.
Laurie Manchester is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. She is the author of Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia (due in 2008). Her current book project, tentatively entitled "The Colonial World through Russian Eyes," examines Russian perceptions of, and experiences in, China, Africa, and Latin America from 1861 to 1941. [End Page 919]
Vladimir Solonari is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. He received his Candidate of Historical Sciences degree from Moscow State University in 1986. In 1990–2001, he served as a member of the Moldovan Parliament as well as of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He has published several articles on Romanian and Moldovan history and has just completed a book, "Purifying the Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in World War II Romania."
