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Jeffrey Brooks is Professor of Russian and European history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 (2003, 1985); Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (2000); and Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State, with G. Chernyavskiy (2006). He received a Guggenheim, a Vucinich Prize, and other awards. He has also written many essays about Russian politics and culture. In progress, Russian Culture High and Low in a Great Age.
Recent and upcoming essays include: “The Russian Nation Imagined: The Peoples of Russia as Seen in Popular Imagery, 1860s-1890s,” The Journal of Social History Vol. 43, No. 3(2010), 535-557; “Chekhov, Tolstoy, and the Illustrated Press in the 1890s,” Cultural and Social History, Vol. 78, No. 2 (2010), 213-232; “Neozhidannyi Tolstoi: Лев и медведь. Юмор в “Войне и мире” in Novoe Literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Observer) No. 109 (summer, 2011), 151-71; “The Moral Self in Russia’s Literary and Visual Cultures (1861-1955),” The Space of the Book: Print Culture in the Russian Social Imagination, Miranda Remnek ed., (2011), 201-30; “Soviet Culture, 1932-1992,” with Sergei Zhuk, in the Oxford Handbook of Twentieth Century Russia, (2013); and “Marvelous Destruction: Left-Leaning Satirical Magazines of 1905-1907,” in Eksperiment in 2013.