Jeffrey Brooks is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Thank You Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (2000) and When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861–1917 (1985; reprinted 2003), which won the Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for best book by an American in 1985. He is also the author of many essays including "Chekhov, Tolstoy, and the Illustrated Press in the 1890s," in Cultural and Social History (Journal of the Social History Society), (2010) and "The Russian Nation Imagined: The Peoples of Russia as Seen in Popular Imagery, 1860s-1890s," in Social History (Spring 2010). Brooks received the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in Arts and Sciences for 2004. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.