Vladislav M. Zubok is a professor of history at Temple University in Philadelphia. His numerous publications include Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev (with C. Pleshakov) (Harvard University Press, 1996), A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), and Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Belknap Press, 2009).He has also received numerous fellowships and professional awards, including the Lionel Gelber and Marshall Schulman Prizes. In the past he was a fellow at the National Security Archive at the University of George Washington and a fellow at the Cold War International History Project at the Wilson Center for International Fellows. In 1995 - 98 he was one of the principal consultants of the CNN 24-part series Cold War. Zubok currently runs the Carnegie Corporation’s International Summer School Project for Social Sciences and Humanities for young educators in the post-Soviet space.