Terry Martin is the George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies in Harvard's History Department and director of the university's Ukrainian Research Institute, known as HURI. He is the author of The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the USSR, 1923–1939 (Cornell UP, 2001) and co-editor with Ronald Suny of A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford UP, 2001). In addition to questions of nationality and empire, he has written on religion, political and administrative history, Soviet neo-traditionalism, and the political police, as well as the Nazi-Soviet comparison. He is currently completing a book on the politics and sociology of state information-gathering in the USSR from the revolution through the death of Stalin.
Terry Martin
Steering Committee
Faculty Associate
George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies and Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
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