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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 4.2 (2003) 483-484



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Contributors to This Issue


Abbott Gleason is the Keeney Professor of History at Brown University and the Director for University Relations of Brown's Watson Institute. He is author of European and Muscovite: Ivan Kireevsky and the Origins of Slavophilism (1972); Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s (1980, 1983); and Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War (1995). He is co-editor of Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell and Our Future (forthcoming later this year).

Peter Kenez has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1966. He is author of Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin (2000); A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End (1999); Varieties of Fear: Growing up Jewish Under Nazism and Communism (1995); The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917—1929 (1985); Civil War in South Russia, 1919—1920 (1977); and Civil War in South Russia, 1918 (1971). He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled "The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1945— 1948."

J. T. Kotilaine is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is author of two forthcoming volumes on Russian trade and development and Russian-Polish/Lithuanian-Ukrainian economic relations. He is currently working on economic policy in the Baltic region from 1550 to 1730.

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern lectures in comparative literature and history at Tufts University and in Judaic Studies at Hebrew College (Boston). He received his doctorate in modern Jewish history from Brandeis University and candidate of sciences degree in comparative literature from Moscow University. He has published numerous articles in comparative literature and Jewish history, and is the author of a monograph, Evrei v Russkoi Armii, 1827—1914 (2003). At present he is preparing a book entitled Drafted into Modernity: Jews in the Russian Army, 1827—1914. [End Page 483]

Marc Raeff is Bakhmeteff Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is author and editor of more than 20 books, including Siberia and the Reforms of 1822 (1956); Michael Speransky, Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772—1839 (1957); Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia: The Eighteenth-Century Nobility (1966); The Well-Ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change through Law in the Germanies and Russia, 1600—1800 (1983); Imperial Russia: Understanding State and Society in the Old Regime (1984); Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia (1994); and Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919—1939 (1990). A complete bibliography of his work through 1987 can be found in Edward Kasinec, "Marc Raeff: A Bibliography (1946—1987)," in Imperial Russia 1700—1917: State and Society Opposition. Essays in Honor of Marc Raeff, ed. Ezra Mendelsohn and Marshall S. Shatz (1988), 289—313.

David R. Stone is an Associate Professor of history at Kansas State University. He is the author of Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926—1933 (2000).

Vladimir Solonari is currently Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Political Sociology of the State University of Moldova and Rosenzweig Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. He holds a candidate of sciences degree in history from Moscow State University, and from 1990—2001 served as a member of the Moldovan Parliament. In 1994—2001 he headed a parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and National Minorities, and in 1997—2001 he served as a member for Moldova of the European Commission for Democracy through Law. He has published extensively in Moldova, Russia, Europe, and the United States on various aspects of Moldovan history and the transition from communism.

Andrei Zorin is Professor in the Department of the History of Russian Literature at the Russian State University for Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow. He has published Kormia dvuglavovo orla: Literatura i gosudarstvennaia ideologiia v Rossii v poslednei treti XVIII—pervoi treti XIX veka (2001); "Glagol vremen," onDerzhavin and his Russian readers,in Svoi podvig svershiv (1987); and many articles on Russian...

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