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Employment

Associate Professor of Russian History, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada (2023—)

Assistant Professor of Russian History, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada (2017-2023)

Lecturer in Russian, East European and Eurasian History, Department of History, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (2015-2017)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (2014-2015)

Education

PhD, University of Chicago, History (2014)

MA, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto (2007)

BA hons., University College, University of Toronto, History (2005)

Publications

Monographs

A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 2021)

Refereed Journal Articles

“‘Because of Him, We Have Pizza Hut!’ Joint Ventures and the Opening Up of the Soviet Economy under Gorbachev,” Russian History, Vol. 49, No. 2-4 (2023): 238-263

“Constructing the Average Worker’s Family Budget after Stalin,” Cahiers du Monde Russe, Vol. 64, No. 1 (2023): 87-108

“‘I Beg You Not to Reject my Plea’: The Late Stalinist Welfare State and the Politics of One-Time Monetary Aid, 1946-1953,” Journal of Social History, Vol. 51, No. 4 (2018): 1045–1068

“Between Fiscal, Ideological, and Social Dilemmas: The Soviet ‘Bachelor Tax’ and Post-war Tax Reform, 1941-1962,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69, No. 6 (2017): 855-877

“Stalin’s Doctrine of Price Reductions during the Second World War and Postwar Reconstruction,” Slavic Review, Vol. 75, No. 3 (2016): 655-677

“Khrushchev’s Cash-and-Goods Lotteries and the Turn to Positive Incentives,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2014): 296-323

“Rubles for Victory: The Social Dynamics of State Fundraising on the Soviet Home Front,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 15, No. 4 (2014): 799-828

Reprinted in an abridged format in Russian translation as “Den’gi dlia pobedy: sotsial’naia dinamika privlecheniia sredstv naseleniia v sovetskom tylu,” in Sovetskii tyl’ 1941-1945 gg.: povsednevnaia zhizn’ v gody voiny, eds. Beate Fieseler and Roger Markwick (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2019)

Chapters in Edited Collections

“‘A Writer Deserves to be Paid for His Work’: Progressive American Writers, Foreign Royalties, and the Limits of Soviet Internationalism in the Mid-to-Late 1950s,” Europe’s Internationalists: Rethinking the Short Twentieth Century, eds. Jessica Reinisch and David Brydan (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)

With Étienne Forrestier-Peyrat, “A Communist World of Public Debt?  The Failure of a Counter-model” in World of Debts: The Global Politics of Public Debts from the Late 18th Century, eds. Nicholas Barreyre and Nicholas Delalande (London: Palgrave, 2020)

Book Reviews

“The Ruble and Russian Autocracy (Ekaterina Pravilova, The Ruble: A Political History),” Current History, Vol. 122, No. 846 (2023): 277-280

Ekaterina Pravilova, The Ruble: A Political History, The Russian Review, Vol. 82, No. 4 (2023): 573-792

Jeremy Friedman, Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World, H-Diplo (January 3, 2023) Online: https://issforum.org/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XXIV-15.pdf

Stefan Link, Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest Over the Industrial Order inH-Diplo (March 7, 2022) Online: https://issforum.org/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XXIII-28.pdf

“Hassan Malik, Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 126, No. 4 (2021): 1704–1705

“Ed. Emilia Koustova, Combattre, Survivre, Témoigner: Expériences soviétiques de la Seconde Guerre mondiale,” Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, Vol. 22 (2021).

“James Heinzen, The Art of the Bribe: Corruption under Stalin, 1943-1953,” in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Vol. 47, No. 2 (2020): 209-211

“Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959,” in Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review (January 2020).

“Artemy Kalinovsky, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan,” H-diplo (July 22, 2019)

“Eds. Harmut Berghoff, Jan Logemann, and Felix Römer, The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 53, No. 4 (2018): 898-901

“Chris Miller, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR,“ H-diplo (April 9, 2018)

Popular Audience Publications

“Is it True that Pepsi Briefly Owned Soviet Warships?” BBC History Magazine (April 19, 2022)

“The Ruble has Plummeted. It’s Not the First Time,” The Washington Post (February 28, 2022)

“The crisis that could take down Putin’s presidency,” The Washington Post (July 26, 2018)

Other Works

“A Postwar Quicksand Society?” Peripheral Histories Blog (August 1, 2018)

Works in Progress

McDonald’s and the Opening and Closing of Russia (book)

International Copyright in the Political Economy of Russia and the Soviet Union (book)

Miss Helen Black: Russia’s Foreign Foreign Agent in America (book)

Awards and Fellowships

William Dawson Scholar (2023-)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Insight Development Grant (2019)

Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture, Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale (2019)

American Council of Learned Societies, Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2013)

Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2011)

Kunstadter Travel Grant, University of Chicago, Department of History (2011, 2013)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2006)

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Master’s Scholarship (2005)