Andrea Graziosi (1954) is Professor of History at the Università di Napoli Federico II and a past President of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (2007-11) and of Italy’s National Authority for the Evaluation of Universities and Research (2014-2018). He is an associé of the Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (Paris) and a fellow of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Among his publications are Histoire de l’URSS (Paris, 2011; Bologna, 2012; Moscow, 2016); Lettres de Kharkov. La famine en Ukraine, 1932-33 (Paris 1989 and 2013; Torino 1991; Kyiv 2007); The Great Soviet Peasant War, 1917-1933 (Cambridge, Ma, 1997; Napoli, 1998; Moscow, 2008); Guerra e rivoluzione in Europa, 1905-1956 (Bologna, 2001; Kyiv and Moscow, 2005); The Battle for Ukrainian (Cambridge, Ma, 2017) with Michael Flier; and Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept (Montreal 2022), with Frank Sysyn. He founded and coedited in Moscow, up to 2010, the series "Dokumenty sovetskoi istorii."