SARA DICKINSON Lecturer, Università degli Studi di Genova GITTA HAMMARBERG deWitt Wallace Professo, Macalester College, Minnesota, USA PAUL KEENAN Tutorial Fellow, Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK OL'GA KOSHELEVA Leading Research Fellow, Department of History, the Academy of Education, Moscow GARY MARKER Professor of Russian History, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA LURANA DONNELS O'MALLEY Professor of Theatre, University of Hawaii, USA RICHARD STITES Professor of Russian History, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, USA GALINA UL'IANOVA Senior Research Fellow, the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow WILLIAM G. WAGNER Brown Professor of History and chair of the History Department, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA