**Jane Burbank *is professor emerita of history and Russian and Slavic studies at New York University. She is the author of Intelligentsia and Revolution and Russian Peasants Go to Court . Frederick Cooperis professor emeritus of history at New York University. He is the author of Citizenship betwee...

**Jane Burbank *is professor emerita of history and Russian and Slavic studies at New York University. She is the author of Intelligentsia and Revolution and Russian Peasants Go to Court . Frederick Cooperis professor emeritus of history at New York University. He is the author of Citizenship between Empire and Nation *, Africa since 1940, and Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference. Burbank and Cooper are coauthors of Empires in World History (Princeton).