Gleb Tsipursky

Gleb Tsipursky is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University, History Department, Newark Campus. His research focuses on the Soviet Union, and he writes about modernity, youth, popular culture, consumption, emotions, the Cold War, globalization, social control, policing, and violence. He published in the United States, France, Germany, Canada, England, and Russia, including a brief monograph in the Carl Beck Papers series, entitled Having Fun in the Thaw: Youth Initiative Clubs in the Post-Stalin Years, published in 2012 with University of Pittsburgh Press. Currently, he is completing a monograph entitled “Socialist Fun:  Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Cold War Soviet Union, 1945-1970.” His next planned project is a study on volunteer militias in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia. He was awarded fellowships by the Kennan Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Education Program Service, and the International Research and Exchanges Board.