Jochen Hellbeck

West German by birth, and a Russian historian by training, Jochen Hellbeck is uniquely qualified to write this book. He is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2017) for this book, and author most recently of Stalingrad: The City That Defeated the Third Reich(Public Affairs 2015), and the online project “Facing Stalingrad.” He is also the author of Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Harvard University Press 2006).