Valerie SperlingValerie Sperling is Associate Professor of Government and International Relations at Clark University. She is the author of Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and the editor of Building he Russian State (2000). Her research on the Russian women's movement, as well as on militarism and patriotism in Russia, has been published in Nations & Nationalism, Women & Politics, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and numerous edited volumes. Read More Read Less