Russia’s Long Twentieth Century: Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives

Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, this new edition of Russia’s Long Twentieth Century is an accessible textbook that encourages students to start a lively conversation with Russia’s storied past.

Choi Chatterjee is a Professor of History Emerita at California State University, Los Angeles. Her most recent book is Russia in World History. A Transnational Approach (2022). She is writing a history of the worldly travels of the Russian Orthodox text, TheWay of the Pilgrim.

Deborah A. Field was a Professor of History at Adrian College for 21 years and is now a Lecturer at the University of Michigan, interested in gender and everyday life. She is the author of Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev’s Russia (2007).

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum is a Professor of History at West Chester University. Her research explores how ordinary people navigated the traumas of the twentieth century. Her most recent book is Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip (2024).