About Artemy M. Kalinovsky

Artemy M. Kalinovsky is assistant professor in east European studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches Russian, Central Asian, and Cold War history. He is the author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2011), and co-editor (with Sergey Radchenko) of The End of the Cold War and the Third World (Routledge, 2011), as well as (with Crag Daigle) of the Routledge Handbook of Cold War Studies (2014). More recently, he co-edited Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era (2015) and is a co-author of the forthcoming Missionaries of Modernity: Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony in Afghanistan and Beyond. His current research completing a book on the politics and practices of development in Soviet Central Asia, which will appear with Cornell University Press in 2017.