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  • Contributors to this Issue

Steven A. Barnes is a Ph.D. candidate in Russian and Soviet history at Stanford University, where he is writing a dissertation on the Gulag in the Karaganda oblast’ of Kazakhstan. His article, “All for the Front, All for Victory! The Mobilization of Forced Labor in the Soviet Union during World War II” will appear in International Labor and Working Class History in fall 2000.

David M. Goldfrank is Professor of History at Georgetown University. His interests are in medieval and early modern Russia, Russian intellectual history, and foreign policy. He is author of The Origins of the Crimean War.

Charles J. Halperin is the author of Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History, The Tatar Yoke, and numerous articles on early East Slavic and Russian history.

Nathaniel Knight is Assistant Professor of History at Seton Hall University. He is currently working on a study of ethnography in 19th-century Russia.

Donald Ostrowski is Research Advisor in the Social Sciences and Lecturer in Extension Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier 1304–1589 (1998) as well as the editor of Primary Sources Supplement to World History (1995) and The Povest’ vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis (2000).

David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye is Assistant Professor at Brock University in St Catharines, Canada, where he teaches Russian and East Asian history. He is currently writing about Russian perceptions of Asia.

Marshall Poe is Lecturer in European history at the University of Limerick (Ireland). He is author of Foreign Descriptions of Muscovy: An Analytic Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (1995), “A People Born to Slavery”: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476–1748 (forthcoming), and The Russian Elite in the Seventeenth Century (forthcoming). He is currently working (with Benjamin Uroff) on a translation of Kotoshikhin’s O Rossii v tsarstvovanie Alekseia Mikhailovicha.

Amir Weiner is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His book, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution, is forthcoming in October 2000. Currently, Weiner is at work on a book-length study of the sovietization of the western borderlands, 1939–89.

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