Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Richard E. Ericson is Professor of Economics at East Carolina University and former Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. His recent publications include “Command Economy and Its Legacy,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, ed. Michael Alexeev and Shlomo Weber (2013), 51–85; with Fan-chin Kung, “Fundamental Non-Convexity and Externalities: A Differentiable Approach,” Berkeley Journal of Theoretical Economics (Topics), no. 1 (2015): 49–62; and, with Lester Zeager, “Ukraine Crisis 2014: A Study of Russian–Western Strategic Interaction,” Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy 21, 2 (2015): 153–90. His current research projects explore “Decision Making in the Face of Ambiguity and Catastrophic Risk,” applications of game theory to international interactions, and analysis of the Russian economic system.
Brian P. Farrell is Professor of Military History and Head of the Department of History at the National University of Singapore, where he has been working since 1993. His main areas of research are the military history of the British Empire and the Western military experience in modern Asia. His next publication will be a two-volume series produced by the research project Empire in Asia: A New Global History, of which he is Principal Investigator.
Leonid Gorizontov, Professor of History at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, specializes in the history of the Russian Empire (regional structure, mental geography, national questions) and in the history of Slavic studies. He is currently researching late 19th-and early 20th-century multivolume editions that contain descriptions of the Russian Empire’s regions.
George Grantham, Professor Emeritus at McGill University, specializes in economic history, especially agrarian development and the history of economic thought. He was invited to present an earlier version of his article at the Gaidar [End Page 1019] Forum in January 2013 and is currently preparing a book on agriculture and the European economy in the very long term.
Huri Islamoglu, Fellow at Institut d’études avancées de Nantes in France, has taught economic history and political economy at Bogazici University in Istanbul, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Central European University in Budapest. Her interests focus on comparative global history with a focus on the Ottoman and Qing empires and Europe, contemporary political economy and law, institutions, and economic development.
Oleg Khlevniuk is Leading Research Fellow at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, National Research University Higher School of Economics. He is the author of The History of the GULAG: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (2004); Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–1953 (2004), with Yoram Gorlizki; Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle (2008); and Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (2015).
Boris I. Kolonitskii is University Professor of History at the European University at St. Petersburg, Leading Research Fellow at the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the author of, most recently, “Tragicheskaia erotika”: Obrazy imperatorskoi sem’i v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny (“Tragic Eroticism”: Images of the Imperial Family during World War I [2010]).
John P. LeDonne, Research Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, is the author of The Russian Empire and the World: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment (l997), and Empire or Unitary State? Russia’s Management of the Eurasian Space 1650–1850 (forthcoming).
Lars T. Lih lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. He is Adjunct Professor at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, but writes about Russian and socialist history on his own time. His recent publications include Lenin Rediscovered (2006) and Lenin (2011). At present, he is preparing a collection of his articles under the title Deferred Dreams.
Liudmila Novikova, Research Fellow and Associate Director of the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and [End Page 1020] Its Consequences at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, is the author of Provintsial’naia ‘kontrrevoliutsiia’: Beloe dvizhenie i Grazhdanskaia voina na Russkom Severe 1917–1920...
