Karen Petrone is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Kentucky, and a specialist in Russian and Soviet Cultural and Gender History. She is author of Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (2000) and The Great War in Russian Memory (2011), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012. She is editor (with Valerie Kivelson, Michael S. Flier, and Nancy Shields Kollmann) of The New Muscovite Cultural History: A Collection in Honor of Daniel B. Rowland (2009); and editor (with Jie-Hyun Lim) of Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives (2011).