Contributors and Translators
Simon Belokowsky defended his Georgetown University doctoral dissertation Youth Is to Live in the City!: Rural Out-Migration in the Black Earth Region under Khrushchev and Brezhnev at Georgetown University.
He is also the author of “Laughing on the Inside: Gulag Humour as Evidence for Gulag Society,” Journal of Social History 52, no. 4 (Summer 2019): 1281–1306.Caroline Cormier is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation is entitled “Spaces of Displacement: The History and Commemoration of Jewish Homes and Judenhauser in Nazi Berlin.”
Aaron Hale-Dorrell is an independent scholar, adjunct instructor, translator, and stay-at-home parent. He is the author of Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) and “Deserters from the Labour Front: The Limits of Coercion in the Soviet war economy,” Kritika 20, no. 3 (2019): 481–504 (with Oleg Khlevniuk).
Marc Junge is a Senior Researcher at the Department of History, Eastern European History section, at the University of Erlangen, Germany. His work includes Stalin’s Mass Repression and the Cold War Paradigm (New York: Kindle, 2016) and Stalinistische Modernisierung: Die Strafverfolgung von Akteuren des Staatsterrors in der Ukraine 1939–1941 [Stalinist modernization: the purge of state terror agents in the Ukraine 1939–1941] (Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2020).
Serhii Kokin is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian History of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, Kyiv, Ukraine, and former director of the State Archive of the Security Police of Ukraine (Haluzevii derzhavnyi arkhiv Sluzhbyi bezpeky Ukrainy). He is coeditor of Radians’ki orhany derzhavnoii bezpeky u 1939–chervni 1941 r.: dokumenty HDA SBU Ukrainy [Soviet state security agencies in 1939–June 1941.
Documents of the Special State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine] (Kyiv: “Kyivo-Mohylianska akademiia,” 2009); and the author of “Nimets’ka operatsiia NKVS v suchasnii istoriografiii,” in “Velykyi teror” v Ukraini: Nimets’ka operatsiia 1937–1938 rokiv. Zbirnyk dokumentiv [“The NKVD German operation in modern historiography,” in The “Great Terror” in the Ukraine. The German Operation 1937–1938] (Kyiv, 2018), 42–80, 81–121.Roman Podkur is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian History of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, Kyiv, Ukraine. His work includes “Velykyi terror” 1937–1938 rr. na Donbasi [“The Great Terror”: 1937–1938 in the Donbass] (Kyiv: Institut istoriii Ukrainy NAN Ukraine, 2016) and (as coeditor) Reabilitovani istoriieiu: Chernihivs’ka oblast’ [Rehabilitation by History: Chernihivs’ka oblast’] (Chernihiv: Vidavets’ V. Lozovyi, 2018).
Jeffrey J. Rossman is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).
Andrei Savin is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. His work includes Die Sibiriendeutschen im Sowjetstaat. 1919–1938 [The Siberian Germans in the Soviet State] (Essen: Klartext, 2001) (with Detlef Brandes) and Unter dem wachsamen Auge des Staates: Religioser Dissens der Russlanddeutschen in der Breschnew-Ära [Under the watchful eye of the state: religious dissent of Russian Germans in the Brezhnev era] (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019) (with Victor Donninghaus).
Aleksei Tepliakov is Associate Professor at the Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Russian Federation. Among his works are Mashina terrora: OGPU-NKVD Sibiri v 1929–1941 gg. [Machine of terror: OGPU-NKVD of Siberia in 1929–1941] (Moscow: Novyi Khronograf; AIRO-XXI, 2008) and Deiatel’nost’ organov VTsK-OGPU-NKVD.
1917–1941: Istoriograficheskie aspekty [Activities of the Cheka-GPU-OGPU-NKVD. 1917–1941: historiography] (Moscow: Rosspen, 2018).Valeriy Vasylyev is Professor of History and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian History of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, Kyiv, Ukraine. His work includes Politychne kerivnytstvo URSR i SRSR: Dynamika vidnosyn tsentr-subtsentr vladi, 1917–1938 [Political leadership in the Ukraine and Soviet Union: dynamics of center-periphery relations, 1917–1938] (Kyiv: Institut istorii Ukrainy NAN Ukraine, 2014) and Radians’ki karateli: Spivrobitnyky NKVS—vykonavtsi “Velykoho terror” na Podilli [Soviet perpetrators: the NKVD and the implementation of the “Great Terror” in the Podillia region] (Kyiv: Vydavets’ V. Zakharenko, 2017) (with Roman Podkur).
Lynne Viola is University Professor at the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Her work includes The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) and Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Vadym Zolotar’ov is Associate Professor at the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine. His works includes Sekretno-politychnyi viddil DPU USRR: spravy ta liudy [The Secret-Political Department of the State Political Administration (GPU) of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: events and people] (Kharkiv: Folio, 2007) and « Gil’otina Ukrainy »: narkom Vsevolod Balitskii i ego sud’ba [The “Guillotine of Ukraine”: People’s Commissar Vsevolod Balitskii and his fate] (Moscow: Politicheskaia entsiklopediia, 2017) (with Iurii Shapoval).