Timothy Snyder - Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928–1953

Imitation and Domination, 19281953

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Timothy Snyder

Lynne Viola

Sarah Cameron

Hiroaki Kuromiya and Andrzej Peposki

Rafa Wnuk

Marek Wierzbicki

Christoph Mick

Alex J. Kay

Dieter Pohl

Timm C. Richter

Geoffrey Roberts

Mark Kramer

Mark Kramer

Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on east European history, including The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 15691999 (2003); Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artists Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (2005); and Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (2010). He helped Tony Judt compose Thinking the Twentieth Century (2011).

Ray Brandon is a freelance translator, historian, and researcher based in Berlin. He is coeditor (with Wendy Lower) of The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization (2008) and translator of Andrej Angrick and Peter Klein, The Final Solution in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 19411944 (2009). He is working on a political biography of Dmytro Paliv, a prominent interwar Galician-Ukrainian politician and senior officer within the SS-Division Galicia.

Sarah Cameron is assistant professor of Soviet history at the University of Maryland-College Park. She earned her PhD in history at Yale University, where her dissertation won the John Addison Porter Prize for the best dissertation in the arts and sciences and the Turner Prize for the most outstanding dissertation in European history. She is working on a book project, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Mass Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan.

Alex J. Kay is an independent scholar based in Frankfurt and Berlin. He is author of Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 19401941 (2006), as well as numerous articles on German occupation in the Soviet Union, and coeditor (with Jeff Rutherford und David Stahel) of Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization (2012).

Mark Kramer is director of the Cold War Studies Program at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Harvards Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is the editor of the Journal of Cold War Studies and the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series.

Hiroaki Kuromiya is professor of history at Indiana University. His publications include Stalin (2005); The Voices of the Dead: Stalins Great Terror in the 1930s (2007); (with Andrzej Peposki), Midzy Warszaw a Tokio: Polsko-japoska wsppraca wywiadowcza 19041944 [Between Warsaw and Tokyo: Polish-Japanese cooperation in intelligence, 19041944] (2009); and Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalins Ukraine (2012).

Christoph Mick is associate professor of history at the University of Warwick. He is author of Kriegserfahrungen in einer multiethnischen Stadt. Lemberg, 19141947 [Wartime experiences in a multiethnic city: Lemberg, 19141947] (2010), Forschen fr Stalin [Conducting research for Stalin] (2000), Sowjetische Propaganda, Fnfjahrplan und deutsche Russlandpolitik [Soviet propaganda, the five-year plan, and German policy toward Russia] (1995), as well as numerous articles on Russia, Poland, and Ukraine.

Dieter Pohl is professor of history at the Klagenfurt University, Austria. Among his publications are Die Herrschaft der Wehrmacht: deutsche Militrbesatzung und einheimische Bevlkerung in der Sowjetunion, 19411944 [The rule of the Wehrmacht: German military occupation and the indigenous population in the Soviet Union, 19411944] (2008), Verfolgung und Massenmord in der NS-Zeit [Persecution and mass murder in the Nazi era] (2003), and Justiz in Brandenburg [Justice in Brandenburg] (2001), as well as numerous articles on the Holocaust and German occupation policy in the Soviet Union.

Timm C. Richter is a freelance historian associated with the research and educational center Villa ten Hompel, Mnster. He is author of Herrenmensch und Bandit: Deutsche Kriegsfhrung und Besatzungspolitik als Kontext des sowjetischen Partisanenkrieges (194144) [Master race and bandit: German conduct of war and occupation policy as the context of the Soviet partisan war (194144)] (1998), as well as numerous articles on the Wehrmacht and partisan warfare during the Second World War. He is editor of Krieg und Verbrechen. Intention und Situation: Fallbeispiele [War and crime. Intention and situation: Case examples] (2006) and coeditor of Bolschewistische Herrschaft und Orthodoxe Kirche. Das Landeskonzil 1917/1918 [Bolshevik rule and Orthodox church. The all-Russian church council of 1917/1918] (2005).

Geoffrey Roberts is professor and head of the School of History at University College Cork, Ireland. An expert on Soviet military and foreign policy, he is the author of many books and articles including Stalins Wars: From World War to Cold War, 19391953 (2006) and Molotov: Stalins Cold Warrior (2012). His most recent book, Stalins General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov (2012), won the 2013 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography.

Lynne Viola is professor of history at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance (1997), The War against the Peasantry, 19271930 (2005), and The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalins Special Settlements