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.
