Allen Lynch is Professor at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he teaches international relations and Russian studies. He has served as the Director of Research at the University’s Center for International Studies, Director of the University’s Center for Russian and East European Studies, Assistant Director of the Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University, Deputy Director of Studies at the Institute for East-West Security Studies in New York City, and Executive Vice President of the Feris Foundation of America. He is currently Co-Treasurer of the Friends of the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. His Ph.D. is in Political Science, Columbia University. In 2011, he published an interpretive biography, Vladim


