Angela Shpolberg is an Affiliated Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on cultural relations between the U.S. and the nascent U.S.S.R in the 1920s. Her current project, Women in Search of Revolution: Angelica Balabanoff, Emma Goldman, and Alexandra Kollontai, 1919-1925, explores how the three women navigated the intersection of feminism, communism, and anarchism. Specifically, it examines the cultural forces that first drew all three women to support the Bolshevik Revolution and, later, turned them into the regime’s first and most vocal opponents.

Originally from Odesa, Ukraine, Angela Shpolberg holds a Ph.D. from Odesa National University where she taught for over ten years. Her articles have been published in Social History/Histoire sociale, New England Quarterly, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.