Benjamin Tromly

Benjamin Tromly teaches courses in modern European history, with an emphasis on the 20th century. His teaching interests include Russian and East European History, totalitarianism, the Cold War, European intellectual history, collective memory, and European nationalisms. Tromly is the author of two books. Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual Life under Stalin and Khruschev (Cambridge University Press, 2014) explores the formation of educated elites in Russian and Ukrainian universities during the early Cold War, and the conflicts that arose about the place of intellectuals and higher learning under socialism. Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia (Oxford University Press, 2019), examples the activities of Russian anti-communist émigrés and refugees in the early Cold War. He has published in Cold War History, Contemporary European History, Europe-Asia Studies, European History Quarterly, Intelligence and National Security, Journal of Cold War Studies, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Nationalities Papers, and Russian Review.