Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Patryk Babiracki is an assistant professor in Russian and East European history at the University of Texas-Arlington and Volkswagen-Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam. He is completing his first monograph Soviet Soft Power and the Poles: The Battle for Hearts and Minds in Stalin’s New Empire, – . His current research concentrates on transnational dimensions of Soviet and East European communisms during the Cold War. Michael David-Fox holds a joint appointment in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of History at Georgetown University. He has published widely on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. He is author of Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, – and Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, – (Oxford, ), and the forthcoming Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Soviet Russia. He is currently conducting research for a book entitled “Smolensk under Nazi and Soviet Rule.” David-Fox is founding and executive editor of the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. Constantin Katsakioris is a historian whose research concentrates on the relations between the Soviet Union and the Third World. He is currently completing his PhD thesis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has published articles in the Cahiers du Monde Russe, the Journal of Modern European History, the Ezhegodnik sotsial’noi istorii, as well as various reviews and essays in several edited volumes. Elidor Mëhilli teaches in the history department at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Previously, he held fellowships at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is working on a book on socialist globalization through the angle of Albania under Yugoslav, Soviet, Eastern bloc, and Chinese patronage, based on archival research in Tirana, Berlin, London, Moscow, Rome, and Washington. 212 contributors Nick Rutter received his PhD in history from Yale in  and is currently revising his dissertation for publication as a book, tentatively titled, Communism’s Party: The World Youth Festivals, –. He is the author of, “Look Left, Drive Right: Internationalisms at the  World Youth Festival,” in Diane P. Koenker and Anne E. Gorsuch (eds.), The Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World (Indiana, ). Marsha Siefert teaches cultural and communications history at Central European University, Budapest. Her edited books include Mass Culture and Perestroika in the Soviet Union and Extending the Borders of Russian History, along with books on world communication and the history of technology. Recent publications include book chapters on film co-productions and cultural diplomacy in the USSR and Eastern Europe, the subject of her current book project, and on nineteenth-century telegraph systems in the Russian and Ottoman Empires. She was for many years the editor of the Journal of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and co-edited two book series with Longman Publishers and Oxford University Press. She is currently co-editing the book series Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, for Central European University Press. Kenyon Z immer is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on the intersections between migration and political radicalism, and has appeared in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, -Present (Blackwell, ), and The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Wiley-Blackwell, ). He is the author (with Mario Gianfrate) of Michele Centrone, tra vecchio e nuovo mondo: Anarchici Pugliesi in difesa della libertá spagnola (SUMA Editore, ), and is currently completing a book on Jewish and Italian anarchists in the United States. Vladislav M. Z ubokis is chair of International History, Department of History, London School of Economics. His numerous publications include Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev with C. Pleshakov (Harvard University Press, ), A Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (University of North Carolina Press, ), and Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Belknap Press, ). He is a recipient of numerous fellowships and professional awards, including the Lionel Gelber and Marshall Schulman contributors 213 prizes; the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Riccardo-Campbell National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; fellowships at the George Washington University’s National Security Archive; and the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow...