ÁGNES GEREBEN (1947) PhD, a historian of modern Russia, teaches at Central European University, Budapest. She was a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Cultural History at Eötvös Loránd University (1986–2008). She has published studies and articles on Anton Chekhov, Isaak Babel, the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church after 1917, the Gulag, the history of Soviet Jewry, Russian exiles in the West, and on the society and economy of the successor states of the Soviet Union. On these subjects, she is regularly featured in the electronic media.