Education
B.A., McPherson College
M.A., Eastern New Mexico University
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Research Areas
The Soviet Union
Books
The Kremlin and the Schoolhouse: Reforming Education in Soviet Russia, 1917-1931 (Indiana University Press, 1991)
Stalin's School: Moscow's Model School No. 25, 1931-1937 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999)
Sotsial'naia istoriia Rossii: 1917-1941 (Russian Social History, 1917-1941) (Rostov-on-Don: Rostov State University Press, 1994)
Rossiia: Strannaia Zemlia i ee zagadochnye liudi (Russia: This Strange Land and its Mysterious People), trans. K.I. Novikov (Kirov: FGUIPP, 2003)
as editor, Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects (edited with Ben Eklof and Vera Kaplan) (London: Frank Cass, 2005)
How Ordinary Russians Experience Their Lives and World: A Report of a Participant-Observer (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).
Kirovs School No. 9: Power, Privilege, and Excellence in the Provinces, 1933-1945 (Kirov: Loban, 2008)
