David L. Hoffmann is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of four previous monographs-Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941 (1994); Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity (2003); Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism (2011); and The Stalinist Era (2018). He also edited Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices (2000); Stalinism: The Essential Readings (2002); and The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia (2022).