Peter Blitstein is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his MA in Political Science and his PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Blitstein’s areas of expertise are twentieth-century European political and social history and the history of nationalism. His research focuses on the relationship between the Soviet state and the non-Russian nationalities in the Stalin period; he has presented it at universities in the United States, Germany, and Russia and has published in journals such as Slavic Review, Ab Imperio, and Cahiers du monde russe. Blitstein lived in Moscow in 1995-1996 and has been a frequent visitor to Russia since.
