The Contributors

Michael C. Brainerd is a Visiting Scholar at the Russian Institute, Columbia University. He was Assistant Professor of Russian History at Middlebury College from 1974 to 1978.

Robert S. Edelman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He has recently completed work on a book dealing with the rise and fall of the Russian Nationalist Party, 1907-17.

Leopold H. Haimson is Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of Decision-Making and Communications in Soviet Industry, Vol. II of Studies in Soviet Communications (M.I.T. Press, 1952), and The Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism (Harvard University Press, 1955). He edited The Mensheviks: From the Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War (The University of Chicago Press, 1975) and is Director and General Editor of other studies of the Project on the History of the Menshevik Movement. His articles have appeared in numerous books and periodicals. At present he is preparing a four-volume work entitled Russian Society and Politics on the Eve of the First World War (to be published by W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.)

Geoffrey A. Hosking is Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Essex, England. He is the author of The Russian Constitutional Experiment: Government and Duma, 1907–14 (Cambridge University Press, 1973). He has recently completed a book on the search for an image of man in contemporary Soviet fiction.

Alexandra Shecket Korros is a former staff researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute and Archives of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She is currently Assistant Executive Director of the Miami University-Hamilton Campus.

Ruth Delia MacNaughton is an associate at Cahill, Gordon and Rein-del, a New York City law firm. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association.

Roberta Thompson Manning is Assistant Professor of History at Boston College and Managing Editor of Russian History. She is presently at work on a book concerning the crisis of the Russian nobility during the last years of the old regime.

Eugene Vinogradoff is a Research Associate and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently he has two works in progress: one dealing with rural Russia during the 1905–1907 Revolution and another with contemporary education in the USSR (with Janice T. Gibson).