DONALD FILTZER
is Professor of Russian History
at the University of East London in the United Kingdom. He is the
author of five books on Soviet labour history, the most recent of which
is The Hazards of Urban Life in Late
Stalinist Russia (Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming 2010). His latest research is on health,
disease, and mortality on the Soviet Home Front during World War II.
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KOSHINO GO
is a Research Fellow of the Slavic
Research Center. He is also a PhD candidate in Russian Literature,
writing his dissertation on Dostoevsky and the Image of Disease in
Russian Cuture. His recent publication is “The Image of Narod and Fedor
Rostopchin in the Napoleonic War (in Japanese),” Bulletin of Japan
Association for the Study of Russian Language and Literature 40
(2008).
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MATSUI YASUHIRO
is Professor of Politics at
Kyushu University. He is the author of Soviet Political Order and the
Youth Organization (Kyushu University Press, 1999; in Japanese).
His
recent publication is “Stalinist Public or Communitarian Project?
Housing Organisations and Self-Managed Canteens in Moscow’s Frunze
Raion,” Europe-Asia Studies
60:7 (2008).
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MARINA MONGUSH
is Leading Researcher of the
Russian Institute for Cultural Research. She is also a Professor of the
Institute of Tourism and Service. Her recent publication is “Tuvans of
Mongolia and China,” Peoples and
Cultures (Moscow, 2008). Her present
research interest is Buddhism in Russia and Western and American Study
of Siberia.
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DMITRII PAVLOV
is Doctor and Professor of History of the Moscow Technical University
(MIREA), specialist in the Russian public movement at the beginning of
the twentieth century and the Russo-Japanese war 1904-05, currently
writing a monograph on the Russian and Japanese international
image-making in the war period. Recently published: Рабочее оппозиционное движение в
большевистской России. 1918 г.: Собрания уполномоченных фабрик и
заводов. Документы и материалы (Moscow, 2006) and “Russia and
Korea in 1904-1905: ‘Chamberlain’ A.I. Pavlov and his ‘Shanghai
Service’,” in John Chapman and Inaba Chiharu, eds., Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5:
The Nichinan Papers v. 2 (Global Oriental, 2007).
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SATO
KEIJI
is a Research Fellow of the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science. He is also a PhD in
social-cultural studies, wrote his dissertation on analysis of ethnic
mobilization at the end of Soviet period. His recent publications are
“The Analysis of the ‘Matrioshka’ Structure of Ethnic Problems during
the Decline of the Soviet Era: The Case Study of the Problem of
Polish-Lithuanians (in Japanese), Slavic
Studies 54 (2007); “The
Rebirth of Sovereign States and First Challenge to National Interests
of Republics of Soviet Union (1989),” Europa
XXI (Warszawa: Polish
Academy of Sciences, 2007).
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SHIN
BEOM-SHIK
is Associate Professor at the
Department of International Relations, Seoul National University,
Korea, and General Secretary of the Korean Association of Slavic
Studies. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the Moscow
State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). He is the editor of
Challenges of Eurasia and
International Relations in the Twenty-First
Century (2006, in Korean). His articles include “Политика России
в
отношении Корейского полуострова во время второго президентского
правления Владимира Путина и ее значение для Республики Кореи,” The
Journal of Slavic Studies 19:2 (2004); Russian Nonproliferation Policy
and the Korean Peninsular (Strategic Studies Institute at US
Army War
College, 2006);“New Great Game and The Changes and Prospects of
Regional Order in Eurasia (in Korean),”The
Journal of Slavic Studies
23:2 (2008).
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TATSUMI YUKIKO
is a Graduate Student of the
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology of Tokyo University. Her
recent publication is “Public Libraries in the Russian Empire: A Study
on the Expansion of Readership after the Great Reforms (in Japanese),” Slavic Studies 55
(2008). She is writing her dissertation on print
media in modern Russian society.
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GEDIMINAS
VITKUS is Head and Professor of the
Political Science Department of the Military Academy of Lithuania,
Professor of the Institute of International Relations and Political
Science of the University of Vilnius. In 2006 he published a book Diplomatinë aporija [Diplomatic
Paradox] in Lithuanian on prospects for
normalization of Lithuanian-Russian relations.
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