Contributors to This Issue

Hugh L. Agnew is Associate Dean for Faculty and Student Affairs and Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. Among his publications are The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (2004), Origins of the Czech National Renascence (1993), and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of Czech nationalism and national identity. His current research focuses on issues of symbol and ritual in the Czech nationalist politics of the 19th century.

Karel C. Berkhoff is Associate Professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, an organization of the University of Amsterdam and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His book Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule (2004) was awarded the Wiener Library's Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, Category A. His current research focuses on Soviet propaganda during World War II and on the history of sites of Nazi and Soviet mass murder in and near Kiev.

Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. His principal recent publications include Writing, Society, and Culture in Early Rus, c._950–1300 (2002) and National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction (co-edited with Emma Widdis, 2004). He continues to work on the socio-cultural history of writing in Russia.

Catriona Kelly is Professor of Russian at Oxford University and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. Her recent publications include Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (2001); and Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2001). She is currently working on a history of childhood in 20th-century Russia, supported by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust (forthcoming in 2006).

Jan Plamper teaches Russian history at Universität Tübingen, Germany. He just completed a book manuscript, "The Stalin Cult," and recently co-edited Personality Cults in Stalinism–Personenkulte im Stalinismus (with Klaus Heller, 2004). He is now working on a book-length study of fear in the late imperial Russian army.

Pavel Polian is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at Stavropol´ State University. His works include Zhertvy dvukh diktatur: Ostarbeitery i voenno-plennye v Tret´em Reikhe i ikh repatriatsii (Victims of Two Dictatorships: Ostarbeiter and Prisoners of War in the Third Reich and Their Repatriation, 1996); and Zhertvy dvukh diktatur: Zhizn´, trud, unizhenie i smert´ sovetskikh voennoplennykh i ostarbeiterov na chuzhbine i na rodine (Victims of Two Dictatorships: The Life, Work, Humiliation, and Death of Soviet Prisoners of War and Ostarbeiter in Foreign Lands and in the Motherland, 2000).

Susan E. Reid is Senior Lecturer in Russian Visual Arts in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She has authored and edited publications on Russian and Soviet visual arts, gender, space, consumption, and material culture, with a focus on the post-Stalin era. She is currently engaged in a study of "Everyday Aesthetics in the Khrushchev-era Apartment."

Marina Sorokina, Candidate of Historical Sciences, is Senior Researcher at the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Department Head at the Russkoe zarubezh´e Library-Foundation. She co-edited, with Ia. V. Vasil´kov, Liudi i sud´by: Biobibliograficheskii slovar´ vostokovedov-zhertv politicheskogo terrora v sovetskii period (1917–1991) (People and Their Fate: A Bio-bibliographical Dictionary of Orientalists Victimized by Political Terror in the Soviet Period [1917–1991], 2003). She is the author, most recently, of "Operatsiia 'Umelye liudi,' ili chto uvidel akademik Burdenko v Orle" (Operation "Skilled People," or What Academician Burdenko Saw in Orel), in In Memoriam: Sbornik pamiati Vladimira Alloia (In Memoriam: A Collection of Articles in Memory of Vladimir Alloi, 2005); and "Snova vostokovedy...: Materialy dlia biobibliograficheskogo slovar´ia 'Rossiiskoe nauchnoe zarubezh´e'_" (Oriental Scholars Revisited: Materials for a Bio-bibliographical Dictionary of Russian Émigré Scholars), Diaspora: Novye materialy 7 (2005): 619–82. Her current projects include: "The Struggle for Resources...