Matthias Neumann is Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. He has published extensively on the history of childhood and youth in revolutionary Russia, including the monograph The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917–1932 (Routledge, 2011), which was translated into Spanish. He is also co-editor of Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide: Tradition, Rupture and Modernity (Routledge, 2017). His current research explores exchange programmes that enabled American children to visit the Soviet Union and investigates the role of children in citizen diplomacy during the Cold War. His forthcoming manuscript, American Peace Child: Bridging the Cold War Divide in a Soviet Youth Camp, is under contract with the University of Toronto Press. Professor Neumann was President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) from 2019-2023 and is the Head of School of the UEA School of History and Art History. He also serves as Trustee and Treasurer of the Royal Historical Society and is an Associate Editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.
