Tom Gleason is professor of history emeritus at Brown University and a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute. His areas of interest include national identity in the Soviet Union/Russia and the United States from 1830-1930, and the history of the Cold War. A Brown professor for over 30 years, he is the former chair of the history department and a former director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. He recently co-edited with Martha Nussbaum Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell and Our Future (Princeton University Press, 2005) and Nikita Khrushchev, with Sergei Khrushchev and William Taubman (Yale University Press, 2000).