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  • Contributors to This Issue

Sarah Badcock, Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Nottingham, has published on late imperial and revolutionary Russia. Her A Prison without Walls? Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism was published in 2016. She is currently exploring comparative perspectives on questions of punishment, free and unfree labor, and penal cultures.

Helena Barop is working on her dissertation about international drug control at Universität Freiburg, Germany.

Diane P. Koenker is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is most recently the author of Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream (2013), and she is now working on consumer communism in trade and public catering in the Soviet 1960s.

Professor Alexander V. Maiorov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, is Chair of the Department of Museum Studies at St. Petersburg State University. His many publications include "The Mongolian Capture of Kiev: The Two Dates," Slavonic and East European Review 94, 4 (2016): 702–14; "The Mongol Invasion of South Rus´ in 1239–1240s: Controversial and Unresolved Questions," Journal of Slavic Military Studies 29, 3 (2016): 473–99; and "Angelos in Halych: Did Alexios III Visit Roman Mstislavich?," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 56, 2 (2016): 343–76. He is currently working on a critical edition of the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle and on a project to identify Russian literary works in foreign archives and repositories.

Boris N. Mironov is Professor of History at St. Petersburg State University and Senior Research Scholar at the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences. He has published ten books in Russian and two in English, including The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700–1917 (2000) [End Page 450] and The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700–1917 (2012). His most recent book is Rossiiskaia imperiia: Ot traditsii k modernu [The Russian Empire: From Tradition to Modernity], 3 vols. (2014). He is currently working on The Management of Ethnic Diversity and Ethno-Confessional Conflict in Russia: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Experience.

Norihiro Naganawa, Associate Professor at the Slavic and Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, is the author of "A Civil Society in a Confessional State? Muslim Philanthropy in the Volga-Urals Region," in Russia's Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914–1922, 2: The Experience of War and Revolution, ed. Adele Lindenmeyr, Christopher Read, and Peter Waldron (2016); and "Holidays in Kazan: The Public Sphere and the Politics of Religious Authority among Tatars in 1914," Slavic Review 71, 1 (2012): 25–48. With Mami Hamamoto and Diliara Usmanova, he co-edited Volgo-Ural´skii region v imperskom prostranstve, XVIII–XX vv. (The Volga-Ural Region in the Imperial Space, 18th–20th Centuries [2011]). His ongoing research project is a biography of the Tatar revolutionary and Soviet diplomat Karim Khakimov (1890–1938).

Molly Pucci is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century European History at Trinity College Dublin. She is working on her first book, Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe, which compares the creation of communist secret police institutions in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East Germany after World War II.

William G. Rosenberg is Professor of History emeritus at the University of Michigan, Faculty Research Associate at Bowdoin College, and Associate Scholar at the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the European University at St. Petersburg. His many publications include Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (2014), with Diane P. Koenker. He is currently working on problems of scarcity and loss in the revolutionary period and their political effects.

Mustafa Tuna is Assistant Professor of Russian and Central Eurasian History and Culture at Duke University and the author of Imperial Russia's Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity, 1788–1917 (2015), reviewed in this issue of Kritika. [End Page 451]

Sören Urbansky is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Assistant Professor of Russian and Asian Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He is the author of...

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