Aaron Retish, Ph.D. | Source | Professor of Russian History at Wayne State University

A specialist in late Imperial and Soviet history with a focus on the social, cultural and political history of the countryside. He is the author of "Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State 1914-1922," a regional study of how peasants’ conceptions of themselves as citizens evolved in a time of total war, mass revolutionary politics and civil breakdown.