Memorial’s historical archive must be restored immediately. An open letter from Orlando Figes and some of the world’s leading academics
Dmitrii Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation
Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St Petersburg
Vladimir Lukin, Russian Federal Ombudsman for Human Rights
Rashid Nurgaliev, Minister of Internal Affairs
Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Yuriy Chaika, General Public Prosecutor of Russian Federation
Vladimir Startsev, Public Prosecutor of Leningrad region,
5 December 2008
We, the 259 signatories of this letter, members of the worldwide scholarly community, wish to express our deep concern at the actions of members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of St Petersburg on 4 December 2008 during a raid of the premises of the Research and Information Centre Memorial in St Petersburg, ul. Rubinshteina 23-105, which resulted in the confiscation of the Centre’s electronic archive.
RIC Memorial is renowned for its research into the history of repression under Stalin, the phenomenon of the Gulag and unofficial movements of the 1950s-1980s in the USSR. The staff of RIC Memorial helped to establish the fate of many thousands of people, citizens of the USSR and other countries, who fell victim to the repressions during the 1930s-1950s. Many of us know members of RIC Memorial’s staff in person or have used the organisation’s archive.
A total of eleven hard drives were confiscated. These drives hold several databases containing: biographical information on more than 50,000 victims of Stalinist repression; the results of the search for execution and burial sites of victims of repression (several hundred sites described or photographed); the photo collection (over 10,000 photographs) and accompanying textual material of the ‘Virtual Gulag Museum’, which is a unique online source linking more than one hundred local Russian museums. Also confiscated were the database to the oral history archive and an electronic collection of photographs, including scans of historic materials from private archives. What is more, the prosecutors took a hard drive and documents belonging to the art historian Aleksandr Margolis, a member of Memorial and the director of the International Charitable Foundation for the Renaissance of St. Petersburg-Leningrad, who is known for his commitment to the preservation of St Petersburg’s historic architecture.
The scholarly community fears the loss of a unique collection, which has been amassed over the course of more than twenty years of dedicated research. This collection is of priceless value for future generations of researchers in both Russia and the wider world and must not be compromised or destroyed.
We are dismayed at the way the results of scholarly research and researchers are being treated by the authorities of St Petersburg and urge you to take action to ensure the electronic archive is immediately returned to its rightful owners.
Yours sincerely,
Orlando Figes, FRSL
Professor of History
Birkbeck College
University of London
Catriona Kelly FBA
Professor of Russian,
Director, European Humanities Research Centre
University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Mary McAuley
University of Oxford, UK
Laura Engelstein,
Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History,
Department Chair, Department of History
Yale University, USA
Beth Holmgren
President, AAASS (2008)
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Duke University, USA
Sheila Fitzpatrick, D. Phil. (Oxon.),
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History,
University of Chicago, USA
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
William G. Rosenberg,
Alfred G. Meyer Collegiate Professor of History,
University of Michigan, USA
Past President, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studes
Istvan Rev
Professor of History, Central European University
Director, Open Society Archives
Malcolm V. Jones BA PhD,
Emeritus Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies,
University of Nottingham, UK
Caroline Humphrey FBA
Professor of Asian Anthropology
Fellow of Kings College,
University of Cambridge, UK
Simon Franklin
Professor of Slavonic Studies,
University of Cambridge,
Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexandra Hrycak
President, American Association for Ukrainian Studies
Chair of the Department of Sociology,
Reed College (Portland, USA)
Sergei Bogatyrev,
Senior Lecturer in Early Russian History
Director, Centre for Russian Studies
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London, UK
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Visiting Professor
Birkbeck College, UK
Anne Applebaum,
Author of Gulag: A History,
Winner of 2004 Pulitzer prize
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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Lecturer in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
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Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
University of Toronto, Canada
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Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester,
President of ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies)
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Associate Professor and Chair,
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Co-Director, International Comparative Studies
Duke University, USA
G.S. Smith, FBA,
Professor Emeritus of Russian,
University of Oxford, UK
Dr Barbara Heldt,
Professor Emeritus of Russian,
University of British Columbia, USA
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DPhil candidate in Russian literature
University of Oxford, UK
Geoffrey Hosking, FBA
Emeritus Professor of Russian History
University College London, UK
Anatoly M. Khazanov, FBA
Ernest Gellner Professor of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
University College London, UK
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Professor
Editor of Canadian Slavonic Papers, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, Canada
Stephen Wheatcroft
Professor of History
University of Melbourne
Australia
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Assistant Professor
Dept of Slavic Langs and Lits
Yale University, USA
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Senior Lecturer in Russian Literature and Film
Russian Department
SSEES/UCL, UK
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John Moores University
Liverpool, UK
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Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Culture
Università di Genova, Italy
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Professor of Russian Literature
University at Albany, SUNY
Albany, NY 12222
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Associate Professor in Russian Studies
University of Nottingham, UK
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Associate Professor of Contemporary History
Universita’ di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
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Lecturer in Politics
Centre for Russian and East European Studies
University of Birmingham, UK
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Head of the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovene Language
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Professor of Russian Literature,
University of Tartu, Estonia,
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Emeritus Professor (Industrial Engineering), University of Manitoba
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Associate Professor in Contemporary History,
University of Tartu, Estonia
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Assistant Professor of Russian
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
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Professor (retired)
University of Manitoba, Canada
Honorary Professor
National University ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ (Ukraine)
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Professor, Central European University,
Budapest
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Professor of Russian
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University of Sheffield
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Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, Canada
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Kluge Fellow, Library of Congress
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Fairfax, VA
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Humboldt University Berlin
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Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s Fellow,
Oxford University.
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GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
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BSc Cognitive Science,
Fellow of the German National
Academic Foundation.
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University of Manchester
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Emeritus Prof. of Russian
American University, Washington, DC
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Robert A. Rothstein
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Centre for Russian and East European Studies
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
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Philologist
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Dept of Anthropology
Universite de Montreal, Canada
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Honorary Professor, University of Perm,
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Tutor in Literature, Oxford University
Dr Sarah Young
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School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London, UK
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European University of St Petersburg
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European University of St Petersburg
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European University of St Petersburg
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European University of St Petersburg
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European University of St Petersburg
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Professor, Russian Studies
University of Arizona
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Assistant Professor of History
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Duke University, USA
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Clare College, Cambridge
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University of Cambridge, UK
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Slavonic Department
University of Cambridge, UK
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School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London, UK
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Senior Lecturer in Russian Literature and Film
SSEES/UCL
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Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics,
National University of ‘ Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ‘
Kyiv , Ukraine
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University of Sheffield
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Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Barnard College, Columbia University, NY, USA
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Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, Canada
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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Poet and Translator
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Stanford University, USA
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Rutgers University, USA
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University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom
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Rutgers University-Newark, USA
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Professor of Russian History
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, USA
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PhD Slavic Languages and Literatures,
UC Berkeley, USA
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Christ Church, Oxford
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Graduate Coordinator
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Comparative Literature / Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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School of Slavonic & East European Studies
University of London, UK
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Professor, Dept. of History & Classics
University of Alberta, Canada
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Lecturer in Russian Studies
University of Manchester, UK
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Stanford University
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Columbia University
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St. Petersburg Institute of history,
Russian Academy of Sciences
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Past President, American Literary Translators Association
Cathy Popkin
Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Russian
Columbia University
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Prof. Emeritus
Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta
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Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics,
University of Derby,
Honorary Senior Research Fellow,
University College, London
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Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages
University of Leiden
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Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature,
University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
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Associate Professor of Russian
Willamette University
Salem, Oregon, USA
Olga Maiorova
Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
the University of Michigan
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,
Director of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University;
Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair of the Slavic Department, Barnard College;
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Ronald S. Lauder Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University, USA
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Professor of Slavic Studies
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, USA
Jane Costlow
Professor of Russian
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
Grzegorz Franczak, PhD.
Lecturer at the University of Milan
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Visiting Lecturer
Wellesley College
Dr. Leonid Livak,
Associate professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
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PhD candidate
University College London
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Professor of Slavic
University of Pittsburgh
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Sakharov Fellow
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
Patricia Herlihy Ph.D. Professor Emerita, Brown University
Louise Wyant Professor of the College
Emmanuel College
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Department and International Studies Program
Miami University
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University of Sheffield
Andreas Umland, M. Phil. (Oxford), Dr. phil. (FU Berlin),
Research Fellow at The Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt,
Bavaria, Germany
Alexander Yanov,
Prof. of Russian history,
City University of New York
Robert Wilcocks
Professor Emeritus
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Robert Romanchuk, PhD
Associate Professor of Slavic
Department of Modern Languages
Florida State University, USA
Co-Editor, Polata Knigopisnaia
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Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
Dr. Erika Wolf
Senior Lecturer
Programme in Art History and Theory
Department of History,
University of Otago
Hugh McLean
Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature,
University of California, Berkeley
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Chair, Russian and East European Studies
Brandeis University
Dr Marja Jänis,
Senior Researcher,
Deparment of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies,
University of Joensuu, Finland.
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Novelist and independent scholar
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Senior Lecturer
Department of English,
University of Otago, New Zealand
Ray Thomas
Honorary Research Fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences
Open University, England
Dr. Stefan Rohdewald
Lehrstuhl fur Neuere und Neueste Geschichte Osteuropas und seiner Kulturen
Universitaet Passau
Stephen M. Norris
Associate Professor of History
Director of Film Studies
Miami University
Michael Khodarkovsky
Professor of History
Member of the Board of Directors of the American Slavic Association (AAASS)
Lucyna Gebert,
Professor of Slavic Linguistics,
University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’,
Italy
Anthony Anemone
Chair & Associate Provost of Foreign Languages
The New School, NY, USA
Valerie Sperling
Associate Professor of Government and International Relations
Clark University
Worcester, MA, USA
Tore Hattermann
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Telegraphenberg A62, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Gerald Pirog, Ph. D.
Associate Professor Program Director
Program in Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
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PhD student, City University London
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Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Prof. Dr. Rainer Kind
Professor at Free University of Berlin
Fellow of American Geophysical Union
Benjamin Sutcliffe,
Assistant Professor of Russian,
Miami University, UK
Dr. Zina Gimpelevich, Professor of Russian,
University of Waterloo, Canada
President, Canadian Association of Slavists
President, Belarusan Institute of Arts & Sciences, Canada (BINiM)
Dr Liisa Byckling
University of Helsinki, Finland
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Wolfson College
University of Oxford
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Department of History
Swansea University, UK
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Beacon for Wales Office
Public Relations and Communications Division
Cardiff University
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‘Never Again’ Association and Collegium Civitas,
Warsaw
Dr. Anne O. Fisher
NEH Collaborative Research Grant, Spring 2009
Research Associate, Department of German and Russian, Williams College
Dr. Deborah A. Martinsen
Associate Dean of Alumni Education
Adj. Associate Professor of Slavic
Columbia University
President, International Dostoevsky Society
Executive Secretary, North American Dostoevsky Society
Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja
Projektleiterin Osteuropa
Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Vermögenskultur
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Wien, Austria;
Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Kenneth Lantz
Professor Emeritus
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Prof. John Jaworsky
Department of Political Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Professor Terry Cox, BA PhD
Professor of Central and East European Studies
President of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies
Department of Central and East European Studies
University of Glasgow
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M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.),
University Lecturer in Russian and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
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King’s College London
Dr. Martha Merritt
Associate Dean for International Education
The University of Chicago
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Russian translator
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Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
Ukrainian President’s medal of the third degree for contributions to Ukrainian culture in the United Sates
Stefanie Schiffer, MA,
Executive Director European Exchange, Berlin
Member of Board ‘Human Rights in Belarus’, Berlin
Martha W. Hickey
Director of International Studies, Portland State University
Assoc. Prof. of Russian
Felix Ackermann PhD,
Director of the support programme ‘Geschichtswerkstatt Europa’,
Institute for applied history, Frankfurt (Oder)
David Gadsby
Assistant Director
Center for Heritage Resource Studies
University of Maryland
Carol Apollonio
Associate Professor of the Practice of Russian
Duke University
Dr. Joseph Peschio
Assistant Professor of Russian
Coordinator, Slavic Languages Program
Chair, Russian and East European Studies Certificate Program
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Catherine Wanner
Associate Professor
of History and Anthropology
108 Weaver Building
The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Andrij Hornjatkevyc
Associate Professor
Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies [and]
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
University of Alberta, Canada
Roman Utkin, M.A.
Independent scholar, Connecticut, USA.
Karen Dawisha
Director, Havighurst Center for Russian and East European Studies
Miami University
Oxford Ohio USA
Dr. Nina Balz
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Abt. Bestandsaufbau/Erschließung
Redaktion ZfBB und BFB
Ludwigstraße 16
D-80539 München
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University of London
Dr Anaïs MARIN (Sciences Po Paris), Research Fellow at the Helsinki
Collegium for Advanced Studies (Finland)
Dr Carol Adlam
Senior Lecturer in Russian
Head of Russian
Department of Modern Languages
University of Exeter
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Lady Davis post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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Lecturer, Jewish History and Culture in the Slavic Countries, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
Christopher Lash, PhD candidate in History
Manchester University, UK
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Information Officer, OSA Archivum,
Budapest, Hungary
Robert Romanchuk, PhD
Associate Professor of Slavic
Department of Modern Languages
Florida State University, USA
Dr. Patty A. Gray,
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology,
National University of Ireland Maynooth
Adrian Ivakhiv, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Vermont, USA
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Sustainable Environmental Management
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Director, Index on Censorship
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Alexander J. Motyl,
Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University-Newark, USA
Catherine Crowther
Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP): Chair of Training Committee International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP): Convener of training programme in analytical psychology in Russia and Liaison Officer for St Petersburg Developing Group
Dr. Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Cornell University
Dr Stephanie Palmer
Lecturer in Law
University of Cambridge
Maureen Tighe-Brown, M.A., M.S.N.
Doctoral candidate in European history
Department of History,
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Dr. Emily Johnson
Associate Professor
Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics
University of Oklahoma
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Independent Scholar
Del Mar, CA, USA
Dr. Gábor T. Rittersporn
Research Director
Centre National de la
Recherches Scientifique
Paris
Ronald D. LeBlanc
Professor of Russian and Humanities
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Murkland Hall
University of New Hampshire
Vladimir Padunov
Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Associate Director, Film Studies Program
University of Pittsburgh
Anne Lounsbery,
Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Director of Graduate Study, New York University
Christina Kramer,
Professor and Chair
University of Kiril i Metodi, Skopje, Macedonia
Jaroslav Rozumnyj Ph.D.
Professor (retired)
University of Manitoba, Canada
Honorary Professor
National University ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ (Ukraine)
Matthew Evangelista
Professor and Chair
Department of Government
Cornell University
James Richter
Professor of Politics
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine
Martin Dewhirst,
Honorary Research Fellow,
Department of Slavonic Studies,
University of Glasgow.
Inna Shtakser,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Dalhousie University, Canada
Alexa von Winning,
Student, University of Tübingen
Jan Plamper, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Lentzeallee 94
14195 Berlin, Germany
Helen Petrovsky
Senior research associate,
Institute of Philosophy,
Russian Academy of Sciences
Dr Neil Robinson,
Senior Lecturer in Politics,
Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, Ireland
Giovanna Brogi
Professor
University of Milan
Julie Draskoczy
MA, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Richard Buchner,
Zeithistoriker, D 14165 BERLIN
Rossen Djagalov,
PhD candidate, Yale University
Alberto Masoero
Professor of Russian History
University of Venice
Prof. Dr. Karsten Brüggemann
Tallinn University
Institute of History
Prof. Iryna Bondarevska,
Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics,
National University of ‘ Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ‘
Kyiv, Ukraine
Dr. Olga Meerson
Associate Professor of Russian
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Dr. Jenny Kaminer
Lecturer, Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies
University of Sheffield
Professor Natalia Pervukhina-Kamyshnikova
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Yulia Spytska
MA International Relations Research Student
University of Essex, UK
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Strasbourg (France), translator.
Lyudmyla Volynets
Free University of Berlin
Petra Hroch,
University of Alberta, Canada.
Professor Frances Millard,
Department of Government,
University of Essex
Dmitrii Kozlov
Pomorskii gosudarstvennyi universitet
Archangelsk, Russia
Flora Roberts,
University of Chicago
Kari Kaunismaa, MSS
Soiskatel doktorskoi stupen
Paimio, Finland
Dr Stefanie Ortmann,
London School of Economics
Denis Kosygin,
Mathematician,
New York University, USA
Lara Weibgen
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
Lauren Kaminsky
Associate Faculty, New York University
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow
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PhC Anthropology Department
University of Washington
Andrew Janco,
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
Dr. Gail Faurschou
Department of Sociology
University of Alberta,
Canada
Olga Livshin
M.A., Ph.D. Candidate,
University of Alaska Anchorage
Bohdan Rubchak
Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
Julia Herzberg, Doctoral Student, Department of History at Bielefeld
University (Germany)
Vera Shibanova
Jacob-Burckhardtstr. 13
78464 Konstanz
Benjamin H. Loring
Postdoctoral Fellow in Central Asian Affairs
Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Svitlana Krys,
PhD Candidate, University of Alberta, Canada.
Yulia Spytska
MA International Relations Research Student
University of Essex
Martin Beisswenger
PhD Candidate
Department of History
University of Notre Dame
USA
Margaret Samu
Ph.D. Candidate in Art History
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Lisa Min
UT Austin
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Bryn Mawr College
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Political scientist
Vienna, Austria
Dr. Lorenz Kaehler, M.A.
Germany
Dr. Richard Buchner (Zeithistoriker)
14165 Berlin, Camphausenstraße 44 D.
Germany
Steven A. Barnes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History,
Project Director and Lead Historian
George Mason University, VA, USA
Michael J. Mikos,
Professor of Slavic Languages,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Simon Ertz, М.А.,
Visiting Fellow, Dept. of History, Moscow State University
Friederike Otto
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ralph Lindheim
Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
Sergei Kan
Professor of Anthroppology
Dartmouth College
Arnold McMillin
Emeritus Professor,
London University
Dina Gusejnova
PhD Candidate in History
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Tony Swift,
Senior Lecturer in History,
University of Essex
Dr Olga Tutubalina
Scott Polar Research Institute
Senior Researcher
Laboratory of Aerospace Methods,
Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University
Mark L. von Hagen
Professor and Chair
Department of History
Arizona State University
Dr Alexander Etkind
Reader in Russian Litarture and Cultural History
Fellow of King’s College
Cambridge University
Daniel G. Prior
Assistant Professor, History
Executive Director, Central Eurasian Studies Society
Miami University
Bettina Nir-Vered
M.A. – Germany
Rebecca Manley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario
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Austria
