Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Rachel Applebaum, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European History at Tufts University, is the author of Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia (2019). She is currently working on a new book project about Russian's development as a world language during the Cold War.
Konstantin D. Bugrov is Leading Researcher at the Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Ekaterinburg and the author of Monarkhiia i reformy: Politicheskie vzgliady N. I. Panina (Monarchy and Reforms: The Political Views of N. I. Panin [2015]); Sotsgoroda Bol´shogo Urala (Socialist Cities of the Greater Urals [2018]); and, with M. A. Kiselev, Estestvennoe pravo i dobrodetel´: Integratsiia evropeiskogo vliianiia v rossiiskuiu politicheskuiu kul´turu XVIII veka (Natural Law and Virtue: The Integration of European Influence into 18th-Century Russian Political Culture [2016]).
Julia Herzberg is Professor of Early Modern History of East Central Europe and Russia at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She is currently working on a study about fasting in early modern Russia as both a practice and an object of political, medical, and religious disputes. She has also conducted research on peasants' autobiographical practices in tsarist Russia and on the environmental history of Central Eastern Europe and Russia.
Maya Lavrinovich, Senior Research Fellow at the National Research University—Higher School of Economics, Moscow, is the author of, among other works, "The Role of Social Status in Poor Relief in a Modernizing Urban Society: The Case of Sheremetev's Almshouse in 1802–1812," Russian Review 76, 2 (2017); 224–52; and "A Servant of Two Masters? The Role of Patronage and Clientage in the Career Strategies of a Moscow Official in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries," Cahiers du monde russe 59, 1 (2018): 7–36. She is currently studying the Malinovskii brothers' social advancement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Sergey Polskoy is Associate Professor of Humanities at the National Research University—Higher School of Economics and Research Fellow at the Center for 18th-Century Studies, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences. He studies 18th- and early 19th-century Russian intellectual and political history. His most recent publication is "The Concepts of Constitution and Fundamental Laws in Russian Political Discourse at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century," in The Enigmatic Tsar and His Empire: Russia under Alexander I, 1801–1825, ed. Alexander Kaplunsky, Jan Kusber, and Benjamin Conrad (2019), 135–66.
Vladislav Rjéoutski is Research Fellow at the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Moscow. His research deals with the social history of languages and history of education in imperial Russia. He recently coauthored, with Derek Offord and Gesine Argent, The French Language in Russia: A Social, Cultural, Political, and Literary History (2018).
Frances Saddington is a PhD candidate in the School of History, University of East Anglia. She is currently completing a thesis on the Soviet children's picture book between 1917 and 1932.
Nari Shelekpayev is Associate Professor in Soviet History at the European University in St. Petersburg. His research focuses on Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia and the comparative history of empires in the 19th and 20th centuries. His articles have appeared in Ab Imperio, Planning Perspectives, and Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie since 2018.
Irina Volkova, Professor at the National Research University—Higher School of Economics, Moscow, is the author, most recently, of "The Reflection of the Identity of the Soviet State in the School Historical Discourse on the Eve of World War II," Istoriia 9, 10 (2018, online); and "Teatr v predvoennoi sovetskoi shkole i formirovanie frontovogo pokoleniia" (Theater in the Prewar Soviet School and the Formation of the Frontline Generation), Otechestvennaia i zarubezhnaia pedagogika, no. 6 (2019, online). Her professional interests encompass military-historical anthropology and prosopographical studies of the Soviet Union's frontline generation.
