Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Seth Bernstein is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He is currently finishing his dissertation, tentatively titled "Communist Upbringing under Stalin: The Political Socialization and Militarization of Soviet Youth, 1934-1941."
David Brandenberger, Associate Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Richmond, has written articles on Stalin-era propaganda, ideology, and nationalism. He has also published National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956 (2002); Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1928-1941 (2011); and Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda, coedited with Kevin M. F. Platt (2006). He is finishing a critical edition of Stalin's infamous 1938 party history textbook, The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Mark Edele is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia. The author of Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society (2008) and Stalinist Society (2011), he is working on a history of Soviet war experiences.
Adrienne Edgar is Associate Professor of Modern Russian and Central Asian History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan (2004). She has published articles on ethnicity, nationality, and gender in Soviet Central Asia and is currently writing a book about ethnic intermarriage in the Soviet Union.
Faith Hillis, Assistant Professor of Russian History at the University of Chicago, is completing a book on nationalist imaginations and politics in the southwestern borderlands of the Russian Empire between 1830 and 1914.
Geoffrey A. Hosking is Emeritus Professor of Russian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His [End Page 506] Trust: Money, Markets, and Society appeared in 2010; and his A Very Short Introduction to Russian History is due out in March 2012.
Catriona Kelly is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her most recent book, Children's World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991, was awarded the Grace Abbott Prize by the Society for the History of Children and Youth. She is currently working on a study of Leningrad and St. Petersburg from 1957. From 2007 until 2011, she led the grant project "National Identity in Russia from 1961," sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Alexei Miller is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Scientific Information in the Social Sciences (INION), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. He is the author of The Ukrainian Question: Russian Nationalism in the 19th Century (2003) and The Romanov Empire and Nationalism (2008). He also coedited the two-volume Poniatiia o Rossii: K istoricheskoi semantike imperskogo perioda (Concepts of Russia: In Pursuit of the Historical Semantics of the Imperial Period [2011]) with Denis Sdvizkov and Ingrid Schierle, and Imperium inter pares: Rol´ transferov v istorii Rossiiskoi imperii (Empire among Equals: The Role of Transfers in the History of the Russian Empire [2010]) with Martin Aust and Ricarda Vulpius.
Alexander Morrison is Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of Liverpool. His Russian Rule in Samarkand, 1868-1910: A Comparison with British India appeared in 2008. He is writing a history of the Russian conquest of Central Asia.
Richard Wortman is James Bryce Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University. His recent publications include "The Tsar and the Empire—Representation of the Monarchy and Symbolic Representation in Imperial Russia," in Comparing Empires: Encounters and Transfer in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Jörn Leonhard and Ulrike von Hirschhausen (2011), 266-86; "The 'Integrity' (tselost´) of the State in Imperial Russian Representation," Ab Imperio, no. 2 (2011): 20-45; and "Great Catherine's Many Dimensions" (review of Robert Massie's Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman [2011]), The National Interest, no. 118 (March-April 2012): 79-88. He continues to research and write on the political culture of Russian monarchy. [End Page 507]
