Yuri Slezkine

is a Russian-born American professor of Russian history and director of the Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2017), The Jewish Century (Princeton University Press, 2004) and ‘The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism’, Slavic Review, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 414-452.