Draft:Vera Tolz

Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic is the Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester.

She received a MA in Classics from St Petersburg in 1981 and a PhD in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham in 1993.

Books

 * Russia: Inventing the Nation (2001)
 * Nation and Gender in Contemporary Europe (2005) co-editor
 * Nation and Empire at War (2015) co-editor
 * with Stephen Hutchings, Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television (2015)
 * Russia's Own Orient': The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods (2011)
 * Russian Academicians and the Revolution (1997)