Author Info
Stephen Kotkin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, with a joint appointment as Professor of International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School. He is the author of the enormously influential books <i>Magnetic Mountain:Stalinism as a Civilization and Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970—2000</i> and contributes regularly to <i>The New York Times, The New Republic</i>,<i> </i>and the BBC.<br/><br/>Jan T. Gross a native of Poland, also teaches at Princeton, where he is the Norman B. Tomlinson ’16 and ’48 Professor of War and Society. He was a 2001 National Book Award nominee for his widely acclaimed <i>Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.</i> His most recent book, <i>Fear:Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz</i>, was named one of the best books of the year by <i>The Washington Post</i>.