Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Jan C. Behrends is a researcher at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) and teaches East European History at Humboldt Universität. His first monograph, published in 2006, analyzed propaganda for the USSR in Poland and East Germany (1944–56); and he is currently working on a comparative study on perceptions of the metropolitan city in Moscow, Berlin, and Chicago around 1900.
Dietrich Beyrau is Professor emeritus at the Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Universität Tübingen. His recent publications include Formen des Krieges: Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (The Forms of War: From Antiquity to the Present [2007]), which he coedited with Michael Hochgeschwender and Dieter Langewiesche; “Die Soldaten der Sofja Fedortschenko” (The Soldiers of Sof´ia Fedorshchenko), in Armiia i obshchestvo v rossiiskoi istorii XVII–XX vv. (Army and Society in Russian History, 17th–20th Centuries), ed. P. P. Shcherbinin et al. (2007); and Deutschsein als Grenzerfahrung: Minderheitenpolitik in Europa zwischen 1914 und 1950 (Germanness as a Liminal Experience: Minorities Policy in Europe, 1914–50), which he coedited with Matthias Beer and Cornelia Rauh-Köhne (2009).
Oleg Budnitskii is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies in Moscow, and a member of the Kritika editorial board. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the annual Arkhiv evreiskoi istorii (Archive of Jewish History) and author or editor of over 200 publications (including 18 books) on the history of Russia and Russian Jewry of the second half of the 19th and the 20th centuries. His major books are Den´gi russkoi emigratsii: Kolchakovskoe zoloto, 1918–1957 (The Money of the Russian Emigration: Kolchak’s Gold, 1918–57 [2008]); Rossiiskie evrei mezhdy krasnymi i belymi, 1917–1920 (Russian Jews between Reds and Whites, 1917–20 [2005]); and Terrorizm v rossiiskom osvoboditel´nom dvizhenii: Ideologiia, [End Page 743] etika, psikhologiia (vtoraia polovina XIX–nachalo XX v.) (Terrorism in the Russian Liberation Movement: Ideology, Ethics, Psychology [Second Half of the 19th–Early 20th Centuries] [2000]).
Katerina Clark is Professor of Comparative Literatures and of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She is currently working on Moscow, the Fourth Rome, a cultural history of the 1930s, and Europe without Borders: Avant-Garde Interactions, 1920–1933.
Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History at Yale University. Her study of late imperial political culture, Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path, is forthcoming. She is working on a study of political violence in early 20th-century Russia.
Peter Fritzsche is Professor of German and European History at the University of Illinois. His recent books include Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (2004); Nietzsche and the Death of God (2007); and Life and Death in the Third Reich (2008).
Jochen Hellbeck, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, is the author of Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin (2006). He is currently working on a comparative study of how German and Soviet soldiers experienced the battle of Stalingrad.
Bert Hoppe is affiliated with Edition Judenverfolgung, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München—Berlin. He is currently working on the Holocaust in the occupied Soviet territories, 1941–44. His relevant publications include In Stalins Gefolgschaft: Moskau und die KPD, 1928–1933 (2007), reviewed in this issue of Kritika; Auf den Trümmern von Königsberg: Kaliningrad 1946–1970 (Out of the Wreckage of Königsberg: Kaliningrad, 1946–70 [2000]); and “Bor´ba protiv vrazheskogo proshlogo: Kenigsberg/Kaliningrad kak mesto pamiati v poslevoennom SSSR” (The Struggle against a Hostile Past: Königsberg/Kaliningrad as a Site of Memory in the Postwar USSR), Ab Imperio 5, 2 (2004): 237–68.
Oxana Nagornaja is affiliated with the Center for Historical and Cultural Studies at South Ural State University in Cheliabinsk. She is working on Russian prisoners of war in Germany during World War I. Her major publications include “Russkie generaly v nemetskikh lageriakh voennoplennykh Pervoi mirovoi voiny” (Russian Generals in [End Page 744] German POW Camps in World War I), Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 6 (2008); “‘Russkii narod zakonchil...
