SEVENTEEN MOMENTS IN SOVIET HISTORY WAS CREATED by James von Geldern ([Macalester College]https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/facultystaff/jamesvongeldern/)) and Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University), who continue to lead the project. A second grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities has enabled the team to expand its scope, bringing new attention to the non-European nationalities of the Soviet Union and deepening the site's coverage of the final years of Soviet rule through 1991. To that end, the project has been joined by Krista Goff (University of Miami) and Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College), whose expertise in the histories of Soviet Central Asia and its successor states shapes the new directions of the site. The team is grateful to Alicia Sheill, Catherine Foley, and Anthony Donofrio, who carried out a complete rebuild of the site under the second NEH grant. The site continues to be supported and hosted by MATRIX, the center for digital humanities and social sciences at Michigan State University.

Past Contributors

The site was originally created with funding from an NEH educational development grant from 1999 to 2002, and developed in collaboration with MATRIX. Krzystof Karski designed the original site. At MATRIX, Dean Rehberger and Bartek Plichta provided valuable guidance in organizing the complexities of Soviet history into a coherent and navigable website. Emilia Simeonova (Macalester College), Ward McKee, and Meredith Roman (Michigan State University) developed materials for the original site. In 2008, Christian Meister oversaw the first redesign, supported by a Macalester College research grant and private donations. From 2007 to 2011, Kristen Edwards (Notre Dame de Namur University) collected archival materials from the Hoover Institution, coordinated the 2008 upgrade, and collaborated on a further upgrade in 2013. Amy Nelson (Virginia Tech) served as content curator and web director from 2014. Jackie Hawthorne (MATRIX) was project supervisor for the 2015 redesign.