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  • Contributors to This Issue

Nicholas B. Breyfogle is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently completing work on his first book, Heretics and Colonizers: Religious Dissent and Russian Empire-Building in the South Caucasus, and has begun work on his second project, tentatively entitled “Baikal: The Great Lake and its People.” His research interests include Russian colonialism, inter-ethnic contact, peasant studies, religious belief and policy, environmental history, and the history and culture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

Oleg Vital′evich Budnitskii holds the degree of doktor istoricheskikh nauk and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Professor at the Center for Jewish Studies and Jewish Civilization at the Institute for Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University. He has authored or edited over 100 publications on 19th- and 20-century Russia, the revolutionary movement, and Jewry during the Russian Revolution and Civil War. These include, most recently: Terrorizm v rossiiskom osvoboditel′nom dvizhenii: Ideologiia, etika, psikhologiia (vtoraia polovina XIX–nachalo XX v.) (2000); the first of three volumes of the Bakhmetev-Maklakov correspondence (co-editor, 2001); and Evrei i russkaia revoliutsiia: Materialy i issledovaniia (editor, 1999).

Mikhail Dolbilov is kandidat istoricheskikh nauk and prepodavatel′ in the History Department of Voronezh State University. His recent publications include “Soslovnaia programma dvorianskikh ‘oligarkhov’ v 1850–1860-kh godakh,” Voprosy istorii, no. 6 (2000); “Proekty vykupnoi operatsii 1857–1861 gg.: K otsenke tvorchestva reformatorskoi komandy,” Otechestvennaia istoriia, no. 2 (2000); and “Kul′turnaia idioma vozrozhdeniia Rossii kak faktor imperskoi politiki v Severo-Zapadnom krae v 1863–1865 godakh,” Ab Imperio, nos. 1/2 (2001). His current research concerns the bureaucratic elite and the representation of imperial power in 19th-century Russia as well as imperial power and the Western borderlands of the Russian empire. [End Page 885]

Anne E. Gorsuch is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (2000). Her current work is on Soviet travel accounts, domestic tourism and guidebooks, and exhibitions in the late Stalin and Khrushchev era.

Lars T. Lih is the author of Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914–1921 (1990) and co-editor of Stalin’s Letters to Molotov (1995). He has published a number of articles on his current research interest – Bolshevik doctrine – while working to complete a study of Lenin’s What is to be Done before the end of the centennial year (2002). He is an independent scholar in Montreal, Quebec.

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage (2000). Currently he is working on Jewish voluntary cultural associations in Russia, 1905–21.

Richard S. Wortman is Bryce Professor of History at Columbia University. In addition to the two volumes of Scenarios of Power (1995 and 2000), he is the author of The Crisis of Russian Populism (1967) and The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness (1976). He is currently beginning a study of Russian texts of exploration. [End Page 886]

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