Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Alexander M. Martin, Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is an executive editor of Kritika. He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics (1997) and Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762–1855 (2013), and the editor of I.A. Rozenshtraukh, Istoricheskie sobytiia v Moskve 1812 goda vo vremia prisutstviia v sem gorode nepriiatatelia (The Historical Events in Moscow During the Presence of the Enemy in That City in 1812 [forthcoming]).
Frances Nethercott is Reader in Russian History at St. Andrews University. She has published widely on aspects of Russian intellectual culture, and is currently completing a research project on historical writing in the late imperial era.
Carolyn J. Pouncy is managing editor of Kritika. Under the pen name C. P. Lesley, she has published two novels, The Not Exactly Scarlet Pimpernel and The Golden Lynx (both 2012). Her next novel, The Winged Horse, will appear in 2014.
Nikolai Promyslov, Research Fellow at the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, specializes in Napoleon’s Russian campaign of 1812. He is currently working on a collective volume about French periodicals in 1789–1814 and the construction of an image of Russia in French newspapers of that period.
Albert J. Rieber is University Professor Emeritus at the Central European University in Budapest and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His comparative history The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War (2014) has just appeared. The sequel, Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia, has been accepted for publication next year, as has his third historical detective novel, Siberian Secrets. [End Page 468]
Joshua Rubenstein, a long-time staff member of Amnesty International, is an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. His latest book is Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life (2011), and his current project examines the events surrounding Stalin’s death.
Victor Taki is currently affiliated with the Center for Ukrainian and Belorussian Studies at Moscow State University. His most important publications include “Orientalism at the Margins: The Ottoman Empire under Russian Eyes,” Kritika 12, 2 (2011): 321–51, and Bessarabiia v sostave Rossiiskoi imperii, 1812–1817 (Bessarabia as Part of the Russian Empire, 1812–1917 [2012]), co-authored with Andre Cusco. His current research, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany), explores changes in the Russian military’s approach to Ottoman Muslims in the context of the Russian–Ottoman wars of the 19th century.
Zhivka Valiavicharska is Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. She works and teaches in the area of modern political and social theory, radical political thought, critical theory, and feminism and queer theory. Her current research projects focus on the history of Soviet and socialist political thought and the rise of Marxist humanism in post-Stalinist Eastern Europe.
Julius Wachtel, a retired federal agent, is Lecturer in the Division of Politics, Administration, and Justice, California State University Fullerton. In addition to Stalin’s Witnesses (2013), he has written scripts for a documentary and a dramatic film about the Moscow show trials.
Glennys Young is Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington. In 2011, she published The Communist Experience in the Twentieth Century: A Global History through Sources. She is working toward completion of a book project, Refugee Worlds: The Spanish Civil War, Soviet Socialism, Franco’s Spain, and Memory Politics.
Vladislav Zubok is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and director of the Russia International Affairs Programme at LSE IDEAS. He is finishing up a book on the life and public intellectualism of Dmitrii S. Likhachev and beginning a new project “1991: Russia Destroys the Soviet Union.” [End Page 469]
