Vladislav Martin Zubok - Temple University

Vladislav Martin Zubok
Office address: Home address:
Department of History 2916 Cambridge Street
Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19130
922 Gladfelter Hall Phone: (215) 235-2570
1115 W. Berks Street (025-24)
Phone: (215) 204-8931
Fax: (215) 204-5891
Email: zubok@temple.edu
CURRENT POSITIONS
Professor of History, Temple University (promoted in July 2009). Teach courses on imperial
Russian and Soviet history, Stalinism and de-Stalinization, East Central Europe in the 19 th -20 th
centuries, and cold war history; advise graduate theses.
Director, Advanced Training Program for Russia, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New
York (2007-10). Organize summer/winter training workshops with interdisciplinary scope in the
social sciences and humanities for junior faculty members from regional universities of Russia;
recruit American and Russian senior scholars to teach at workshops.
Adviser and Consultant, The Dmitry S. Likhachev Foundation, a non-government
organization in St. Petersburg promoting Russian culture, sponsoring the humanities, and
advocating humanitarian democratic values.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies, Academy of Sciences (Moscow),
1985. Dissertation, “The Evolution of the Democratic Party and its Executive Elites Before
and During the Carter Presidency, 1969-1981.”
Diploma and M.A. in History, Moscow State University, 1980. Thesis, “The Fair Deal of
Harry S. Truman, 1946-1949.”
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia. (Harvard University Press, May 2009),
453 pp.
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev.Chapel Hill:
the University of North Carolina Press, 2007, 467 pp.
Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin (with Eric Shiraev), New York: Palgrave
Press, 2000, 182 pp.
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Inside the Kremlin's Cold War. From Stalin to Khrushchev (with Constantin Pleshakov),
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1996, xv + 346 pp. Winner of the Lionel
Gelber Prize for best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on
significant global issues 1996. Published in translation in Germany, Poland, and the
People’s Republic of China.
Books-in-progress:
Conversations with Stalin (with Christian Ostermann and David Wolff). This is a project to
edit, comment on, and publish hundreds of archival records of conversations between Stalin
and foreign visitors in 1944-1953. The manuscript will be ready for a publisher in spring
2009.
Masterpieces of History. The peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe. ed by Svetlana
Savranskaia, Thomas Blanton, and Vladislav Zubok (Budapest: Central European
University Press, 2010)
Crisi e trasformazione dei sistemi politici degli anni Ottanta – Crollo dell’ ultimo impero
(USSR) [Crises and transformations of political systems during the 1980s – The collapse of
the last empire (USSR)] (with Victor Zaslavsky). The manuscript will be ready for a
publisher in December 2008.
A Russian Life: Dmitry Likhachev, a monograph about the nationally-known Russian
historian and the search for national identity in the post-communist Russia.
Edited books, articles, book chapters, and book reviews:
History of Russia. Twentieth Century (in two volumes), ed. Andrei Zubov, Moscow: AST,
2009 – in Russian. I wrote about 250 pages in the 2000-page long volumes.
“The Soviet Union and détente of the 1970s,” Cold War History, Vol. 8, Issue 4 (November
2008), 427-447.
“Russian society and the Prague Spring,” chapter in: Guenter Bischof and Stefan Karner,
eds., Die Sowjetunion, Österreich und die internationale Krise 1968 (Wien, 2008)
“The Destruction of Memory,” review of Orlando Figes, “The Whisperers, Private Life in
Stalin’s Russia,” Washington Post, February 17, 2008.
“German Unification from the Soviet (Russian) Perspective,” commentary on Philip
Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice’s chapter in: Kiron K. Skinner (eds.), with forewords by
Pavel Palazhchenko and George P. Shultz, Turning Points in Ending the Cold War (Stanford
University, Hoover Institution Press, 2008), 255-272.
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Review of Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali. Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside
Story of an American Adversary. New York: W.W. Norton, February 2006. Published in a
by H-Diplo, October 16, 2007, Roundtable Reviews, vol. VIII, No. 13 (2007), at:
http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/#vol9no1.
“La prima crisi della Guerra fredda: Mosca e il petrolio iraniano (1943-1946)” [“The first
crisis of the cold war: Moscow and the Iranian oil”] (with Jamil Hasanli), Ventunesimo
Secolo 13 (June 2007), 11-44.
“Reflessioni sulle Superpotenze passate e presenti: due recenti libri russi,” [“Reflections on
the superpowers past and present: review of recent Russian history books”] Mondo
Contemporaneo 1 (2007), 119-130.
“Soviet Foreign Policy from Detente to Gorbachev, 1975-1985,” chapter for The Cambridge
History of the Cold War, vol. 3 (forthcoming in 2008).
“In Search of Cold War Ideologies,” (with Leopoldo Nuti,), chapter in: Saki R. Dockrill and
Geraint Hughes, eds., Advances in Cold War History (New York-London: Palgrave-
McMillan Press, 2006).
“Gorbaciov e il ruolo della personalita nella storia” [“Gorbachev and the role of personality
in history”], Ventunesimo secolo, 10 (July 2006).
“Unwrapping an enigma: Soviet elites, Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War,” in: Silvio
Pons and Federico Romero, eds., Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War. Issues,
interpretations, periodizations (London: Frank Cass, 2005), 137-164.
Review, Gorlizki, Yoram, and Oleg Khlevniuk. Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling
Circle, 1945-1953 , in Slavic Review, Vol. 64, Number 1 (Spring 2005), 199.
“Russia’s Identity Quest,” Orbis (Winter 2005), 183-193.
“Soft Power. Reagan the dove,” New Republic, (June 21, 2004), 11-12.
Review of Lawrence S. Wittner, “The Struggle Against the Bomb,” H-Peace, May 2004.
The End of the Cold War; New Facts and Aspects, co-edited with S.Yu. Shenin, and A.A.
Shubin (Saratov: Saratov State University, 2004).
“Il posto degli Stati Uniti nella propaganda e nella societa sovietica dopo Stalin: l’immagine
del nemico e i fattori della sua erosione,” in: Pierro Craveri e Gaetano Quagliariello,
L’Antiamericanismo in Italia e in Europa nel Secondo Dopoguerra (Rome: Rubbettino
Editore, 2004), 367-386.
“Russian Historiography of the Cold War: Some Results of the Decade,” Otechestvennaia
istoriia, no. 4, 2003, 143-150; no. 5, 139-162 (with V. Pechatnov).
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“The Brezhnev Factor in Détente, 1968-1972,” in: Natalia Yegorova and Alexander
Chubarian, eds., Cold War and the Policy of Détente: Problems and Discussions (Moscow:
The Institute of General History, 2003), vol. 1, 284-316.
“La Realpolitik del Cremlino e le origini della Guerra fredda” [“The realpolitik of the
Kremlin and the origins of the cold war”], Ventunesimo Secolo. Revista di studi sulle
transizioni (Rome: Luiss University Press, Marzo 2003), 35-75.
“Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War: Different Perspectives on the Historical
Personality,” in: William C. Wohlforth, ed., Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis,
Debates (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), 207-242.
“Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War: Perspectives on History and Personality,” Cold
War History, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (January 2002): 61-100.
“Was There a Stalin Doctrine of the Cold War? The Issue of War and Peace in Stalin’s
Actions and Theoretical Writings in the Last Years of his Life,” chapter in: Saki Dockrill,
Robert Frank, Georges-Henri Soutou, and Antonio Varsori, eds., L’Europe de l’Est et de
l’Ouest dans la Guerre froide 1948-1953. (Universite de Paris IV, Presses de l’Universite de
Paris Sorbonne, 2002), 161-183.
“Die Krisen Gorbatschows und die Vereinigung Deutschlands,” chapter in: Hans-Hermann
Hertle, Konrad H. Jarausch, Christoph Klessmann (Hg), Mauerbau und Mauerfall.
Ursachen – Verlauf- Auswirkungen (Berlin, Christoph Links Verlag, 2002), 245-268.
"Gorbachev's Nuclear Learning," Boston Book Review, April-May, 2000.
“‘Instead We Are Producing Rockets.’ The Story of the American Exhibition in Moscow,
July 1959,” Rodina, special issue No. 4 on the Cold War, Moscow, 1998, 76-78 (in
Russian).
“‘What Chaos in the Beautiful Socialist Camp!’ Deng Xiaoping and Sino-Soviet relations,
1956 - 1963,” The Cold War International History Project Bulletin, no. 10, March 1998,
152-162.
“Stalin’s Plans and Soviet Archives,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 21, No. 2, Spring 1997, 295-
305.
“The Soviet Intelligence Services in Germany and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961” in:
Wolfgang Krieger and Juergen Weber, eds., Spionage für den Frieden? Nachrichtendienste
in Deutschland während des Kalten Krieges, Akademiebeiträge zur politischen Bildung:
Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing (München: Guenter Olzog Verlag, 1997), 121-
144.
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“The Soviet Union and European Integration from Stalin to Gorbachev,” Journal of
European Integration History, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996, 85-98.
"‘To Hell with Yalta!’ - Stalin Opts for a New Status Quo,” The Cold War International
History Project Bulletin, No. 6-7, Winter 1995/1996, 24-27.
“Khrushchev’s Nuclear Promise to Beijing During the 1958 Crisis,” The Cold War
International History Project Bulletin, No. 6-7, Winter 1995/1996, 219, 226-227.
"Soviet Intelligence and the Cold War: the ‘Small’ Committee of Information, 1952-1953,"
Diplomatic History, Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1995, 453-472.
“A Perspective from Russia” in Peter Gourevitch, Takashi Inoguchi, and Courtney
Purrington, eds., United States-Japan Relations and International Institutions After the Cold
War, (La Jolla, CA: The University of California San Diego Press, 1995), 363-378.
"Russia: Between Peace and Conflict," in Hans-Henrik Holm and Georg Sorensen, eds.,
Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 1995), 103-118.
"‘Dismayed by the Actions of the Soviet Union’: Mikoyan's Talks with Fidel Castro and the
Cuban Leadership, November 1962,” The Cold War International History Project Bulletin,
No. 5, 1995, 59, 89-92.
“Soviet Activities in Europe after World War II,” Problems of Post-Communism,
September/October 1995, 3-8.
“Atomic Espionage and Its Soviet ‘Witnesses,’" The Cold War International History Project
Bulletin, no. 4, 1994, 50, 52-53.
"Moscow and Nuclear Weapons after Stalin's Death," with Yuri Smirnov, The Cold War
International History Project Bulletin, no. 4, 1994, 1, 14-18.
"Spy vs. Spy: The KGB vs. the CIA, 1960-1962," The Cold War International History
Project Bulletin, no. 4, 1994, 22-33.
"The Collapse of the Soviet Union. Peace, Stability and Legitimacy," in Geir Lundestad, ed.,
The Fall of Great Powers: Peace, Stability and Legitimacy, Nobel Symposium 87 (Oslo:
Scandinavian University Press, 1994), 157-174.
“The Soviet Union,” (with C. Pleshakov) in David Reynolds, ed., The Origins of the Cold
War in Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), 53-76.
"Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1960's," in Diane Kunz, ed., The Diplomacy in
the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations During the 1960's (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1994), 149-182.
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"Offered Hand Rejected? Vance Mission to Moscow in March 1977” in Herbert D.
Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky, eds., Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-Presidential
Years (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994).
"NSC 68: A Soviet view,” in Ernest May, ed., National Security: NSC 68 (New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1993).
“The Missile Crisis and the Problem of Soviet Learning,” Problems of Communism, Special Edition,
Spring 1992.
“Learning Against the Grain (Soviet Nuclear Mythology).” Peace Review (Winter/Spring 1991).
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Organizer, “Power and Culture during the Cold War: Parallel Home Fronts,” research
project between Temple University and the Russian Academy of Science, funded by the
Carnegie Corporation (NY), 2004. Workshop on this project took place at Saratov State
University, Saratov, Russia, on July 1-2, 2004.
Coordinator, International Summer Schools Program in Russia (with Svetlana
Savranskaia), funded by Carnegie Corporation (NY), in cooperation with the Kuban State
University (Russia), the National Security Archive, and the Informational Bureau of NATO
in the Russian Federation, 2002-2004. The first school, “Regional Aspects of the Cold War
History: Eastern European countries and great powers” took place in Gelendzhik, Russia on
August 6-14, 2003. The second school on the topic “The End of the Cold War and the
Contemporary Problems of International Security” also took place in Gelendzhik, Russia,
June 22-30, 2004.
Senior Research Fellow-in-Residence, The National Security Archive, George
Washington University, April 1994 – September 2001.
Director of Russia and East Bloc Archival Documents Database Project of the National
Security Archive, George Washington University and Cold War International History
Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., funded by
Smith Richardson Foundation to create English language catalogue of newly available
documents, 1996 - September 2001.
Director of the Project "Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan in the Cold War," The National
Security Archive, George Washington University, September 1999 - August 2001.
Fellow, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington
University, 1995-1997.
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Consultant and Co-Director, “Stalin and the Cold War” Project of the Cold War
International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
Washington, D.C., June 1997- August 1998.
Project Co-Coordinator and Consultant, research project and international conference,
“Rethinking the End of the Cold War,” Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International
Studies, Brown University, November 1995 - June 1998.
Acting Director, Seminar on Cold War International History, Norwegian Nobel Institute
(Oslo), coordinated meetings of an international group of visiting scholars and the Institute’s
fellows, January – April 1994.
Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute (Oslo), June - December 1993.
Research Fellow, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., January - May 1993.
Research Fellow, Center for International Security and Arms Control (Stanford
University), December 1990 - April 1991.
Research and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for the U.S.A. and Canada Studies of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, 1985-1992.
Fellow, Russian Science Foundation, a Moscow-based, non-governmental research group
uniting young political scientists, historians and economists, 1991-1993.
Coordinator of Research Seminar for senior scholars and government officials, Institute for
the U.S.A. and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, November 1988 -
December 1990.
TEMPORARY TEACHING POSITIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, Institutions, Marchets, Technologies (IMT), Institute for Advanced Studies,
Lucca, Italy. Taught graduate course on international relations during the cold war, February
2006 and May 2007.
Lecturer, Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Rome, Italy.
Taught undergraduate course on the cold war, March-May 2006.
Lecturer and Deputy Director (with James Millar and James Hershberg) of NEH-funded Summer
Institute on New Sources and Findings on Cold War International History, Elliott School for
International Affairs, George Washington University, September 1998 – August 1999.
Lecturer on History, University of Virginia, January – May 1997. Taught a course on
Russian and Soviet foreign policy in the 20th century for graduate students and Ph.D.
candidates.
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Guest Lecturer on History, George Washington University, in 1995 - 1998. Cocoordinator
of the course “Documenting the Cold War History” (with Christian Ostermann
and the staff of the National Security Archive).
Lecturer on Post-Soviet Politics, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University, June - August 1996. Taught undergraduate course for
students of Russian language, Summer Political Russian Program.
Lecturer on Politics and History, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), September –
December 1992. Taught undergraduate course on Soviet and post-Soviet government and
politics.
Lecturer on History, Ohio University, January – April 1992. Taught (with Steven Minor)
graduate seminar on Soviet-American relations from the Russian revolution to the end of the
Cold War.
Lecturer on History and Politics, Amherst College, September –December 1991. Taught
(with William Taubman) undergraduate course on the Cold War and Soviet-American
relations.
Lecturer on Nuclear History, Stanford University, January - April 1991. Taught (with
David Holloway) graduate course on international nuclear history.
Lecturer on Cold War and Nuclear History, Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies,
Academy of Sciences (Moscow), November 1988 - December 1990.
Guest Lecturer at various seminars on Cold War History, Soviet History and International
Relations for students at Princeton University, the Russian Research (Davis) Center at
Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Brown University, and Georgetown
University.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC MEETINGS:
Commentator, the panel “Waltzing in the Cold War: The Vienna Summit 1961,” the annual
meeting of German Historical Association, October 10, Arlington, VA.
Presentation, the roundtable “Academician Dmitriy Likhachev: A Scholar’s Activism in
Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia,” the annual meeting of the American Association for
Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 22, Philadelphia.
Presentation, “Soviet (Non) Strategy in the Mediterranean during the Cold War,” at the
international workshop “Cold War in the Mediterranean: Connecting the Fronts,” November
14-15, the European Institute, Columbia University, New York.
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Presentation, panel “Cold War Conversations. The 40 th Anniversary of Prague Spring,” the
public conference sponsored by the Cold War Museum, the Embassy of the Czech Republic, and
the Embassy of the Republic of Slovakia, October 11, 2008, Lorton, VA.
Presentation, panel, “Russia and the West,” US Institute of Peace, September 26, 2008,
Washington DC.
Presentation, panel “The Russia-Georgia conflict and the US,” at the Institute of European,
Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Institute for International Economic Policy,
and the George Washington University’s Center for International Business Education and
Research, September 11, 2008, Washington DC.
Presentation, panel “Improving US-Russian Relations through Cooperation in Higher
Education and Research,” Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, September 18, 2008, Washington DC.
Paper, “Lost in the Triangle: Japan and the Far East Diplomacy, 1969-1972. New
Documentation about the Soviet-American Backchannel Talks,” presented at the
international conference, “Northeast Asia in the Cold War: New Evidence and
Perspectives,” June 25-27, 2008, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo,
Japan.
Paper, “Soviet intellectual elites after Stalin’s death and visions of the end of the Cold War,”
presented at the international conference, “Overcoming the Iron Curtain. Visions of the End of
the Cold War in Europe 1945-1990,” June 12-14, 2008, Paris, France.
Paper, “Stalin and Israel,” presented at the international conference “Harry S. Truman, the State
of Israel, and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East,” May 29, 2008, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
Lecture, “Reflections on the end of the Cold war: the role of cultural and intellectual
changes,” the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, April 14, 2008
Lecture, “A Failed Empire? Lessons from the Soviet cold war experience,” Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, April 8, 2008
Presentation, “Russian society and the Prague Spring,” the Eisenhower Center for American
Studies conference “Prague Spring and Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968,” University of
New Orleans, 3-4 April, 2008.
Lecture, “Zhivago's Children: The rise and fall of the intelligentsia after Stalin,” the Institute
of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, February
13, 2008.
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Presentation, “The Soviet Union in the Cold War,” Foreign Policy Research Institute,
Philadelphia, November 29, 2007.
Lecture, “Zhivago’s Children: Exploring the Russian Intelligentsia after Stalin,” Princeton
Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, November 15, 2007.
Lecture, “The Soviet Union in the Cold War,” Washington College, November 6, 2007.
Lecture, “Soviet perspective of the Cold War,” Hollybush Lecture, Rowan University,
November 1, 2007.
Presentation, “Nikita Khrushchev: Institutional and Personal de-Stalinization,” Nikita
Khrushchev’s Memoirs Symposium, the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown
University, October 27, 2007.
Presentation, Panel of Scholarly Experts, Conference, U.S.-Soviet Relations in the Era of
Détente, 1969-1976, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, October 22, 2007.
Lecture, “Space Exploration and the Cold War: A Soviet View,” at Sputnik 50 th Anniversary
Conference, Temple University, October 5, 2007.
Paper, “Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat: Soviet foreign policy in the Far East and the
Pacific Region, 1985-91,” “Cold War in Asia, 1973-1991.” International Workshop, University
of Carolina, Santa Barbara, March 21- 22, 2007.
Lecture, “From Lenin to Putin: Is Another Cold War Possible?” Denver World Affairs Council,
March 19, 2007.
Paper, “Who Were ‘Children and Fathers’ in December 1962? The Manege Episode
Reconsidered,” presented at the annual conference of the American Association for
Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, November 18, 2006.
Paper, “Soviet society in the 1960s: main trends,” Russian-Italian historical workshop,
Libera Universita degli Studi Sociali, Rome, November 9-10, 2006.
Paper, “The Impact of Hungarian revolution 1956 on Soviet society,” workshop. The Davis
Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, October 30, 2006.
Discussant, Roundtable: Lessons from the History-IR Exchange, workshop “Historical
Legacies in International Affairs,” Temple University, October 27, 2006.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Organizer and lecturer, international and disciplinary training workshop for junior US,
Russian, and CIS-countries faculty in humanities and social sciences “Teaching Russian
Legacy in the Global 21 st Century,” July 17-29, Kichkine hotel, Crimea, Ukraine under the
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auspices of Temple University and St. Petersburg University (Department of Psychology),
with support of the Russkiy Mir Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Organizer and lecturer, international and interdisciplinary training workshop for junior
Russian faculty in humanities and social sciences “Russia and the World in the 20 th Century:
Social-Ethnic Migrations and Nation States,” July 5-17, 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia under
the auspices of Temple University and St. Petersburg State University (Department of
Psychology) with support of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Organizer and lecturer, international and interdisciplinary training workshop for junior
Russian faculty in humanities and social sciences “Russia and the World in the 20 th Century.
State Power, Society, and ‘Critical’ Personalities,” December 10-22, Moscow, Russia, 2007
under the auspices of Temple University and the State University for Humanities in
Moscow, Russia with support of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Organizer and lecturer, international and interdisciplinary training workshop for junior Russian
faculty in humanities and social sciences “Russia and the World in 20 th Century: Economic
Modernization and Social-Political Transformations,” 21 July- 2 August 2008, St. Petersburg,
Russia, under the auspices of Temple University and St. Petersburg State University
(Department of Psychology) with support of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
MEDIA
Senior Series Consultant (with John Lewis Gaddis and Lawrence Freedman) on CNN-
Jeremy Isaacs Productions’ “Cold War,” a 24-hour documentary series, September 1995 –
December 1998; consultant and on-air commentator for CNN’s “Cold War Postscript,”
appearing on 21 of 24 half-hour episodes, hosted by Ralph Begleiter, September 1998 -
April 1999; and curricula consultant, Turner Learning: produced teaching guides and CD-
ROM to accompany CNN “Cold War” documentary series for distribution to 20,000 high
school and college teachers in the U.S., 1998-1999.
Consultant and On-Air Commentator, “Race for the Superbomb,” PBS and Learning
Channel documentary, air date January 11, 1999.
On-Air Commentator, “Debating the Issues,” one of five half-hour discussion programs
complementing the PBS documentary series “Messengers from Moscow” featuring leading
U.S. specialists on the Cold War, 1996.
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2008 AAASS Marshall Shulman Prize for A Failed Empire
2008 Public Policy Scholarship, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC
2008 Grant for project, “Teaching Russian Legacy in the Global World
Joint Advanced Training of American and Russian Junior Faculty
in Russian History, Culture, and Language (2008-2009),” Russian
Foundation “Russkyi Mir,” $220,000
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2008 Research and Writing Grant, Foundation “Russkyi Mir,” $20,000
2007 Fellow, the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio
2007 Grant, Advanced Training Program for Russia,
Carnegie Corporation (NY), $320,000
2006 Fellow, Libera Universita degli Studi Sociali, Rome
2005 Research Fellowship, the Collegium Budapest
2004 Carnegie Corporation (NY) Incentive Grant, $15,000 USD
2003 Presidential Research Incentive Summer Fellowship,
Temple University, $5,000
1998 Research Grant, the Open Society Archive, Budapest
1996-1997 Database Grant, Smith Richardson Foundation
1997 Research Grant, National Council for Eastern European and Eurasian
Research
1996 Lionel Gelber Prize for Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War
1996 Fellowship, Zentrum fuer Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
1993-94 Fellowship, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo.
1993 Research Grant, The U.S. Institute of Peace
1992 Fellowship, the Kennan Institute
1991-92 Research and Writing Grant, The MacArthur Foundation Program on Peace
and International Cooperation
1991 Karl Loewenstein Fellowship in Political Science and Jurisprudence,
Amherst College
1991 Fellowship, Contemporary History Institute, University of Ohio
1989 Grant-in-Aid, Eisenhower Institute of World Affairs
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Temple University, Department of History, member of Graduate Admissions Committee
(also chair in 2004), Graduate Council, Undergraduate Committee, Personnel Committee,
and Chair’s Advisory Board, participated in a number of search committees, 2001-present.
Member of the Center for the Studies of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD), Temple
University, 2001-present.
Book reviewer for Slavic Review, H-Diplo, and Mondo Contemporaneo
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
German Historical Association
LANGUAGES: fluent in English and Russian, read German, French, and Italian.
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