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  • Contributors to This Issue

Kevin Bartig teaches musicology at Michigan State University. He has published articles on Russian and Soviet music and is currently completing a book on Sergei Prokof'ev's work with the Soviet film industry.

Paul Hagenloh is Associate Professor of History in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is the author of Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926-1941 (2009), reviewed in this issue of Kritika. He is currently working on a study of state administration and political violence in the early Soviet era, tentatively titled "Soviet Power: Revolutionary Councils and the Communist State under Lenin and Stalin."

Oliver Johnson is Research Associate in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is currently working on a monograph exploring the production and reception of fine art in the postwar Soviet Union, a project that is funded by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Oleg Khlevniuk, Doctor of Historical Sciences, is Senior Specialist (glavnyi spetsialist) at the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) in Moscow. He is the author of The History of the GULAG: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (2004); and, with Yoram Gorlizki, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953 (2004) and Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle (2008).

Ann Kleimola is Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her related publications include "Visions of Horses," in Mesto Rossii v Evrope (Russia's Place in Europe [2001]); "Cultural Convergence: The Equine Connection between Muscovy and Europe," in The Culture of the Horse, ed. Karen Raber and Treva Tucker (2005); and "A Legacy of Kindness: V. L. Durov's Revolutionary Approach to Animal Training," in Other Animals: Beyond the Human in Russian Culture and History, ed. Amy Nelson and Jane Costlow (2010). Her ongoing research includes further study of animals in Rus'. [End Page 694]

Donald Ostrowski is Research Advisor in the Social Sciences and Lecturer at Harvard University's Extension School, where he teaches world history. His publications include Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589 (1998) and The Povest' vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis (2003). He also chairs the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies' Early Slavists Seminars at Harvard University.

Maureen Perrie is Professor emeritus of Russian History in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on Russian history from the 16th to the 20th centuries and edited the first (pre-Petrine) volume of The Cambridge History of Russia (2006). She is currently researching popular attitudes toward the legitimacy of the first Romanov tsars.

Angela Rustemeyer is Universitätsdozentin at Universität Wien. Her dissertation, "Domestic Servants in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1861-1917" was published in 1996; and her Habilitationsschrift, "Dissent and Honor: Crimes against the Sovereign in Russia, 1600-1800," appeared in print in 2006. Most recently, she edited, with Guido Hausmann, Imperienvergleich: Beispiele und Ansätze aus osteuropäischer Perspektive. Festschrift für Andreas Kappeler (Imperienvergleich: Examples and Approaches from an East European Perspective. A Festschrift for Andreas Kappeler [2009]). Her current research focuses on the economy and culture of early modern Eastern Europe and on crime in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1750-1950.

Isolde Thyrêt is Associate Professor of History at Kent State University. She is author of Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia (2001) and numerous articles on women and piety in medieval Russia and Muscovite religious imagery. She is presently working on a book-length project on the role of the cult of the relics of Russian Orthodox saints in Muscovite society and culture.

Teddy J. Uldricks is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His recent publications include "War, Politics, and Memory: Russian Historians Reevaluate the Origins of the Second World War," History and Memory 21, 2 (2009): 60-82; and "Appeasement in Russian, Chinese, and American Foreign Policy," Selected Annual Proceedings of the Conference of Florida Historians 16 (March 2009): 88-105. [End Page 695]

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