Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Nick Baron is Associate Professor in History at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Soviet Karelia: Politics, Planning, and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920–1939 (2007); and The King of Karelia: Col P. J. Woods and the British Intervention in North Russia 1918–1919. A History and Memoir (2007; Russian translation 2008). He co-edited (with Peter Gatrell) Homelands: War, Population, and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918–1924 (2004) and has published numerous articles on 20th-century Russian and East European history and historical geography. He is currently writing a cultural study of Soviet topography, cartography, and spatial cultures under Lenin and Stalin.
Joshua First is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Michigan. He recently published an article, "Making Soviet Melodrama Contemporary: Conveying 'Emotional Information' in the Era of Stagnation," Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 2, 1 (2008): 21–42. His dissertation, "Scenes of Belonging: Cinema and the Nationality Question in Soviet Ukraine, 1960–1980," examines the intersection of nationality politics, Thaw-era aesthetic problems, and consumer politics after Stalin.
G. M. Hamb urg is Otho M. Behr Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. He is the co-author (with Ernest Tucker and Thomas Sanders) of Russian–Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus: Alternative Visions of the Conflict between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830–1859 (2004). His current projects include editing (with Randall Poole) A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830–1930 and writing Russian Political Thought, 1700–1917.
Robert E. Johnson is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. His recent works include: " 'I Lost It at the Market': Some Thoughts on the Political Economy of Post-Soviet Russia," in What Is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies, Memories, edited by Thomas Lahusen and Peter H. Solomon, Jr. (2008), 15–25; and a three-hour radiodocumentary, The Cold War [End Page 495] Declassified (CBC Radio, Ideas, November–December 2006). He is currently working on a book manuscript on archives of the Cold War.
Stephen Lovell is Reader in Modern European History at King's College London. His recent publications include Destination in Doubt: Russia since 1989 (2006) and, as editor, Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe (2007).
Daniel L. Schlafl y, Jr., is Professor of History and Director of Russian and East European Studies at Saint Louis University. He has published a number of works on aspects of Russia's encounter with the West, particularly with the Roman Catholic Church and the Jesuits. He also translated and annotated two volumes of S.M. Solov'ev's History of Russia.
Ilya Vinitsky is Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent books are Dom tolkovatelia: Poeticheskaia semantika i istoricheskoe voobrazhenie V. A. Zhukovskogo (Interpreter's House: Poetic Semantics and the Historical Imagination of Vasilii Zhukovskii [2006]); and a collection, co-edited with Angela Brintlinger, Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture (2007). His new book, Spectral Paradoxes: Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism, is forthcoming. He is also writing, with Andrew Baruch Wachtel, a cultural history of Russian literature. [End Page 496]
