Lisa A KirschenbaumLisa A. Kirschenbaum is a Professor of History at West Chester University, Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments (2006) and Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Sovie Russia, 1917-1932 (2001). She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and grants from the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center and the International Research and Exchanges Board. She has published articles in the Slavic Review, European History Quarterly and Nationalities Papers, and has contributed to the Women's Review of Books. Read More Read Less