Notes on Contributors
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anne applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and a prize-winning historian with a particular expertise in the history of communist and post-communist Europe. She is also a Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, where she runs a research project on disinformation and 21st century propaganda. She is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956, which won the 2013 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. Both books were nominated for the National Book Award. Anne is a former member of the Washington Post editorial board, a former deputy editor of the Spectator Magazine, and a former Warsaw correspondent of The Economist. From 2011–2015 she created and ran the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute in London, a program which sought to understand new threats to democracy. She has lectured at many universities, including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge, Zurich, Humboldt and Heidelberg.
pascal bruckner is a French philosopher and novelist, born in I948. He has published about 25 books, which have been translated in 30 countries. He was Professor at Sciences Po (Paris) for 20 years, and has served as Visiting Professor at NYU, SDSU and Texas A&M University. He has two new books in English, The Wisdom of Money (Harvard University Press, 2017), and An Imaginary Racism, Islamophobia and Guilt (Polity Press), to be released soon
james s. corum is a military historian with twelve books and more than 70 major journal articles and book chapters published in military history and strategic studies. Dr. Corum taught at US staff colleges 1991 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2014 was Dean of the Baltic Defence College in Tartu, Estonia. He is currently head of the MA in Terrorism and Security program at Salford University, Manchester, UK.
lynn d. corum is a freelance Russian translator and analyst educated at Brown University (BA) and Exeter University in the UK (MA). She taught 30 years, first as a language instructor at St. Lawrence University, and finally as the International Teacher at Miina Härma Gümnaasium in Tartu, Estonia. Her daily monitoring of Russian media as well as Kremlin publications, begun in Estonia, is her window into the ideology of Putin's Kremlin.
nicholas eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, and is Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle WA. He is author or editor of over 20 books and monographs, including Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications (Seattle, WA: NBR, 2010). He earned his AB, MPA and Ph.D. from Harvard and his M.Sc. from the LSE. [End Page 213]
ray finch is a Eurasian Military Analyst for the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He has produced analytical studies dealing with the Russian military and society. Prior to this he worked as the Assistant Director in the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. Finch spent 20 years in the US Army, first as a Field Artillery Officer and then as a Eurasian Foreign Area Officer. He earned both his BA and Masters at the University of Kansas.
paul gregory is Cullen Professor of Economics at the University of Houston and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. His research is in the areas of Russian economic history and comparative economics. He has published thirty books and more than 100 articles on these subjects. He blogs at Forbes at Econworld.
sarah m. misemer, Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies and associate director of undergraduate research in the LAUNCH office at Texas A&M University, is the author of Secular Saints: Performing Frida Kahlo, Carlos Gardel, Eva Perón, and Selena (Tamesis, 2008); Moving Forward, Looking Back: Trains, Literature, and the Arts in the River Plate (Bucknell University Press, 2010); Theatrical Topographies: Spatial Crises in Uruguayan Theater Post-2001 (Bucknell University Press, 2017); and co-editor, along with Richard J. Golsan, of The Trial That Never Ends: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann...
