Lisa Kirschenbaum writes and teaches about modern Russia and the Soviet Union, war and memory, international communism, and gender in modern Europe. Her books focus on questions of how individuals - children who grew up in the wake of the Russian Revolution, survivors of the siege of Leningrad - came to represent their life stories as part of history. Her most recent book, International Communism and the Spanish Civil War, explores the personal and political lives of international communists. This project explores the connections between Russian Americans and the Russian Revolution.