Choi Chatterjee is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the author of Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002) and the co-author of Russia in the Long Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2016) and The Twentieth Century: A Retrospective (Perseus, 2002). Her latest book, Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach, will be published by Bloomsbury Academic Press in 2021.