Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

Contributors

329 paulina bren is adjunct assistant professor of history at Vassar College. She is the author of The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring (2010), as well as various essays about the Eastern bloc. She has recently finished a coedited volume titled Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Postwar Eastern Europe. Her next project is on the spy family, the Fields. greg castillo is senior lecturer in architectural history at the University of Sydney. His research—supported by fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Getty Center for Research, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture—examines the use of architecture and design as Cold War propaganda. His Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design was published in 2010. david crowley is a historian working at the Royal College of Art in London. His specialist interests lie in the architecture and design of Eastern and Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of Warsaw (2003) and coeditor, with Susan E. Reid, of Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc (2002). He curated Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970, a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2008–2009. michael david-fox is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and a founding editor of Kritika. His most recent book, Showcasing the Great Experiment : Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to Soviet Russia, 1921–41, is forthcoming. He is now working on a study of “Smolensk under Nazi and Soviet Rule.” karen gammelgaard is professor of Czech language and literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages, University of Oslo. She has authored and edited publications on Prague school semiotics, standard languages, and Czech literature. She is currently heading a project on Czech public discourse in 1948–53 and is participating in Red-Letter Days in Transition, a joint project on the semantic and pragmatic changes of red-letter days in Central Europe and the Balkans from 1985 on. anne e. gorsuch is associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (2000) and the editor (with Diane P. Koenker) of Turizm: The Russian and East European TourcontributorS peteri text3.indd 329 8/16/10 10:46 AM 330 contributors ist under Capitalism and Socialism (2006). She is completing a book titled All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin and working on a coedited volume with Diane Koenker on popular culture in the socialist 1960s. erik ingebrigtsen recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), as an affiliate of the Program on East European Cultures and Societies (PEECS). In 2007, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the Rockefeller Foundation’s contribution to the modernization of interwar Hungary ’s public health system. He has published articles on the relationship between right-wing radicalism and rural health in Hungary and on a controversial figure in present-day Hungarian collective memory, the interwar public health reformer Béla Johan. His most recent research is oriented toward Hungary’s 1922 entry into the League of Nations. Currently, he holds an administrative post at NTNU. catriona kelly is professor of Russian at Oxford University and a fellow of New College, Oxford. Her recent publications include Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (2001); Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero (2005); and Children’s World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890–1991 (2007). She is currently working on a book about cultural memory in Leningrad/St. Petersburg in the late Soviet and post-Soviet era, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/russian/nationalism). elaine kelly is lecturer in music at Edinburgh University. She has published on a range of topics exploring music historiography and canonic reception in nineteenthand twentieth-century Germany and is currently writing a book on narratives of romanticism in the German Democratic Republic. györgy péteri teaches in the Department of History and Classical Studies and is director of the Program on East European Cultures and Societies (PEECS) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. His latest book is Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921–1929 (2002). His current research interest is the everyday life of the elites and middle...