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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 8.1 (2007) 225-226

Contributors to This Issue

Eugene M. Avrutin is Assistant Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His articles have appeared in Ab Imperio, Jewish Social Studies, and Slavic Review. He is currently completing his first monograph, entitled "A Legible People: Identification Politics and Jewish Accommodation in Imperial Russia."

Kate Brown, Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is currently a fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Her A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (2004) won the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize for International History and the Association for Women in Slavic Studies' Heldt Prize. She is currently working on a book about atomic cities in the United States and the USSR.

Oxana Klimkova is a Candidate for the Ph.D. in History at the Central European University in Budapest. She is currently taking part in "High-Level Decision-Making under Stalin," a research project directed by Paul Gregory, Professor of Economics at the University of Houston.

Joshua Sanborn is Associate Professor of Russian History and Director of the Russian and East European Studies Program at Lafayette College. He is the author of Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905–1925 (2003); and co-author (with Annette Timm) of Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe (2007). He is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled "Life on the Frontier of Death: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Ecosystem of War in Russia, 1914–1918."

Marci Shore is presently Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale University, where she begins a position as Assistant Professor of History in the fall of 2007. She is the author [End Page 225] of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968 (2006); and the translator of Michał Głowiński's Czarne sezony (The Black Seasons, 2005). Her current project, "The Self Laid Bare: The Search for Modernity between Paris and Petersburg, 1910–1930," examines phenomenology, structuralism, and aesthetic theory in early 20th-century Central Europe.

Erik van Ree is Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies of the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Socialism in One Zone: Stalin's Policy in Korea, 1945–1947 (1989); and The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism (2002); and co-author (with John Lowenhardt and James R. Ozinga) of The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992). He is currently doing research on the young (pre-1917) Stalin.

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