A Response to Geoffrey Swain and Laura Engelstein

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Notes on contributor

Jonathan D. Smele is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary, University of London. He has recently published The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars, 1916–1926 (London/New York: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2016) and the Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926, 2 Vols (Langham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). He also edited The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917–1921: An Annotated Bibliography (London/New York: Continuum, 2003), wrote ‘The Study Group on the Russian Revolution: The First Thirty Years’, Revolutionary Russia 18, no. 2 (2005), and is the former editor of Revolutionary Russia. He is currently joint editor (with Michael Melancon, Auburn University) of The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia and is also on the Advisory Committee of the Russia's Great War and Revolution project.

Notes

1 Smele, ‘Still Searching for the “Third Way”’, 1809.