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I am a historian of modern Russia. My research explores the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the Soviet Union during its late decades: from Stalin鈥檚 death in 1953 to the country鈥檚 collapse in 1991. My earlier work on the 1950s and 1960s, the epoch known as the Thaw, focused on reading audiences and the problem of comprehending individual life experience in the framework of twentieth-century past. Above all, I wrote about how the Soviet readers had interpreted the mass political violence of the Stalinist years. On the basis of archival evidence, primarily thousands of readers鈥� letters to literary journals, this work discussed how the evolution of historical consciousness and language had transformed Soviet society after Stalin.听

Currently, I am writing a history of听migrations from the Soviet Union to the West during the 1970s and 1980s. The project explores the mechanisms of these migrations as well as the values and ideas that motivated their various participants. 听听听听听

My teaching ranges from introductory surveys to advanced seminar courses on Soviet and Imperial Russia as well as on comparative cultural and intellectual history of modern Russia and the West. I supervise student research in these and adjacent fields. 听

Selected publications

Monographs

• The Readers of Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. 442 pp.
• Novoangliiskii separatism v SShA v nachale XIX veka. [New England Separatism in the United States in the Early Nineteenth Century.] Saint Petersburg: Glossa, 1997. 112 pp.

Edited Collections

• The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s. Co-editor (with Eleonory Gilburd) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013, paperback edition 2014. 528 pp.
• The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930. Co-editor (with Lynne Viola, Viktor P. Danilov, and Nikolai A. Ivnitskii). Annals of Communism Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 427 pp.

Journal Guest Editorship

• The Thaw and After: Late Soviet Culture and Society. In Russian Studies in History, vol. 49, no. 4 (Spring 2011); vol. 50, no. 1 (Summer 2011)

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

• 鈥淪oviet Peasants, Village Prose, and the Thaw: A Reading Audience That Was Not There?鈥�听Other Voices in Soviet History: Collected for a Devil鈥檚 Advocate,听ed. Heather D. DeHaan, Dan Healey, and Tracy MacDonald (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2025): 41-65
• 鈥淥n Choice and Freedom in Transnational Migrations: The Soviet Jewish Migrants in Europe Who Were Left Behind,鈥� Journal of Social History, vol. 57, no. 1 (Fall 2023): 156-186. .
• 鈥淩eading during the Thaw: Subscription to Literary Periodicals as Evidence for an Intellectual History of Soviet Society,鈥澨齣n听Reading Russia: A听Histor