Gregory L. FreezeGregory L. Freeze is Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History at Brandeis University, USA. He has written and edited numerous works on Russian history since the eighteenth century and is the author of Russian Levites: Parish Clery in the Eighteenth Century (1977), From Supplication to Revolution: A Documentary Social History of Imperial Russia (1988) and, with Boris Mironov, The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 (2014). He is also the editor of Russia: A History (3rd Ed., 2009). Read More Read Less