Contributors to This Issue

Harvey Asher is Professor Emeritus of History at Drury University. Recent publications include "Ordinary Executioners: A Social Psychological Analysis," Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung (2001), and "Hitler's Decision to Declare War on the United States," Society for Historians of American Foreign Policy Newsletter (2000).

Paul Bushkovitch is Professor of History at Yale University. His recent publications include Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001); and Peter the Great (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).

Jonathan W. Daly is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866-1905 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998) and is completing a volume covering the same topic during Russia's first constitutional period (1906-17).

Jonathan Dekel-Chen is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of a forthcoming book from Yale University Press on the Jewish agricultural colonization movement in Southern Ukraine and Crimea during the interwar period.

Michael Gordin is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University, teaching the history of science and imperial Russian history. He is also a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows. He has written a series of articles on relations between Russian science and the state and culture broadly construed, particularly in the imperial period. His biographical study of D. I. Mendeleev in the Russian empire will appear in the spring of 2004 from Basic Books.

Jeffrey Herf is Professor of History at the University of Maryland in College Park, where his research and teaching focuses on the intersection of ideas and politics in 20th-century Europe and Germany. His publications include: Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997); and Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). He is currently at work on a study forthcoming with Harvard University Press with the working title: "'The Jewish War': Goebbels and the Campaigns of Nazi Wartime Anti-Semitism."

Elizabeth A. Papazian is Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Maryland in College Park. She has recently published an article on Alexander Dovzhenko's 1930 film, Earth, and is currently working on a book about changing models of Soviet authorship, 1921-34.

Jeff Sahadeo is Assistant Professor in the Institute of European and Russian Studies and the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He received his Ph. D. in history at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in 2000 and is currently preparing his manuscript on the Russian settler community of Tashkent for publication.