Professional Affiliation

Professor, Department of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Wilson Center Project

De-Stalinization and the Politics of Culture Shift: Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1956

Project Summary

In order to assess the first few years of de-Stalinization in Soviet Ukraine, the project will probe the cultural factors underpinning the relationship between the communist party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Previous Terms

July 2009 - Short Term Grant: " Modern Ukraine: A Short History"; May 2002 - Short Term Grant: "The Soviet Union and the Dialiectics of Nation-Building, 1917 - 1991"; December 1998 - Short Term Grant: "Alexander Dovzhenko, 1894 - 1956: Tradition, Modernity and Stalinist Realities"