Andrea GRAZIOSI (1954) is professor of contemporary history at the University of Naples Federico II, associate of the Center d’études des mondes russie, caucasien et centre-européen (Paris), and fellow of the Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard). He was president of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History and of the National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research. His publications include Histoire de l’URSS (Paris, 2011; Bologna, 2012; Mosca, 2016); Lettres de Kharkov. La famine en Ukraine, 1932-33 (Paris 1989 and 2013; Turin 1991; Kyïv 2007); The Great Soviet Peasant War, 1917-1933 (Cambridge, Ma, 1997; Naples, 1998; Moscow, 2008); War and revolution in Europe, 1905-1956 (Bologna, 2001; Kyiv and Moscow, 2005); The Battle for krainian (Cambridge, Ma, 2017) with Michael Flier; and Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept (Montreal, 2022), with Frank Sysyn. He founded and directed in Moscow, from
1993 to 2010, the series Dokumenty sovetskoi istorii.