Michael David-Fox

Michael David-Fox is the director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University, where he is a professor in the School of Foreign Service and Department of History. A founding and executive editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, he is the author of Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929 (1997), Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921–1941 (2011), and Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union (2015). He is editor or co-editor of 11 books, most recently The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023). His Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.