Hiroaki Kuromiya

Hiroaki Kuromiya was educated in Japan (BA, Tokyo University) and USA (PhD, Princeton University) and worked in Great Britain and USA, teaching and researching Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history. He is the author of, among others, Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s (1998), Stalin: Profiles in Power (2005), Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s (2007), Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952–1953 (2012), and Zrozumity Donbas (2015), as well as Między Warszawą a Tokio: Polsko-japońska współpraca wywiadowcza 1904–1944 (2009, with Andrzej Pepłoński), The Eurasian Triangle: Russia, The Caucasus, and Japan, 1904–1945 (2016, with Georges Mamoulia), and Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894–1945 (2023).