ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Joshua Rubenstein has been involved with human rights and international affairs for more than twenty-five years. He is the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and a longtime associate at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian Studies. Overseeing Amnesty's work in New England, New York, and New Jersey, Rubenstein has acted as Amnesty's spokesperson in numerous radio, television, and print interviews. He has also lectured widely on the Soviet human rights movement, including a series of lectures in Russian at the Mendeleev Institute in Moscow in 1990-91. He has contributed articles and reviews on Soviet and international affairs to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, New Republic, The Nation, and elsewhere. STALIN'S SECRET POGROM is Rubenstein's third significant contribution to the study of Russian history. The New York Review of Books called his first book, Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights, "sympathetic, scholarly, and comprehensive." Rubenstein is also the author of Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg, a biography of the controversial Soviet writer and journalist, which the New York Times Book Review called "convincing, judicious, and enjoyable."

Vladimir P. Naumov is executive secretary of the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation on the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression. He is the editor of the Russian-language edition of STALIN'S SECRET POGROM.