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Mark Edele is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of two books, Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), and Stalinist Society, 1928–1953 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). He edited Totalitarian Dictatorship: New Histories (New York: Routledge 2014) with Daniela Baratieri and Giuseppe Finaldi; a special issue of the Australian Journal of Politics and History 58, no. 3 (2012) on War and Peace, Barbarism, and Civilization in Modern Europe and Its Empires, with James Crossland and Giuseppe Finaldi; and a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History, entitled The Limits of Demobilisation: Global Perspectives on the Aftermath of the Great War, with Robert Gerwarth (forthcoming 2015). His essays have been published in Slavic Review, Kritika, Australian Journal of Politics and History, International Labor and Working Class History, Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Russian history/Histoire russe, and Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. He also published chapters in A Companion to the Second World War, ed. Thomas Zeiler, vol. 1 (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography, ed. Kiril Tomoff, Julie Hessler, and Golfo Alexopoulos (New York: Palgrave, 2011), Late Stalinism: Society between Reinvention and Reconstruction, ed. Juliane Fürst (London: Routledge, 2006), and Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick and Michael Geyer (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). Edele is currently working on a book on displacement in the Soviet Second World War.

Tatiana Filimonova is Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Vanderbilt University where she teaches Russian language, literature, and film. She received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Northwestern University in June 2013. Her dissertation explores the eastern trajectory of Russian literature throughout the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries, tracing Eurasianist political and philosophical ideas in Russian fiction. She has written on Eurasianism in contemporary Russian prose, including the work of Pavel Krusanov and Vladimir Sorokin, and her research interests include intersections of contemporary literature, politics, and intellectual thought.

Chinyun Lee is Associate Professor, teaching world history in the Department of History at National Chi Nan University, Taiwan. She earned her PhD in the [End Page 341] Department of History at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her primary research interest is international trade, and her recent topic is on the silk trade in Central Asia during the Qianlong Reign (1711–99).

Sergey Lyubichankovskiy is Full Professor of Russian History at the Orenburg State Pedagogical University and a senior research officer at the Volga Regional Branch of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the public expert group at the Governor’s Office and the Government of the Orenburg Region, a member of the International Association for the Humanities (IAH). He is a member of editorial boards of such history journals as Wschodni rocznik humanistyczny [East humanitarian year-book] (Lublin, Poland), Problemy istoriï Ukraïny XIX–pochatku XX st. [Problems of history of Ukraine of XIX – the beginning of the XX centuries] (Kiev, Ukraine), Izvestiia Natsional’nogo tsentra arkheografii i istochnikovedeniia/Arkheografiia zhene derektanu ūlttyq ortalyghynyng khabarlary [News of the National Center of an Archaeography and Source Study] (Astana, Kazakhstan), and “Belye piatna” rossiiskoi i mirovoi istorii [“White spots” of Russian and world history] (Moscow, Russia). His main research interests are: methodology of history, the history of Russian statehood, intercultural communications, and Russia bureaucratic history. He is the author of six monographies and more than 100 publications, including in Kritika (USA), Acta Slavica Japonicа (Japan), Wschodni rocznik humanistyczny (Poland), International Journal of Russian Studies (Turkey), Ukrainian historical magazine (Ukraine), Ab Imperio, Russian history, etc. He has participated in international conferences in Glasgow, Stockholm, Uppsala, Torun, Kaunas, Lviv, Hong Kong, Kolkata, Osaka, Istanbul, Rome, and Hamilton, etc. His books include Gubernskaia administratsiia i problema krizisa vlasti v pozdneimperskoi Rossii (na materialakh Urala, 1892–1914 gg.) (Samara: IPK GOU OGU, 2007), Remontiruemaia vertikal’: Gubernskaia reforma v planakh pravitel’stva Nikolaia II (Orenburg: OGU, 2009), and Formation and...

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