freidin

Gregory Freidin is Professor and Chairman of Stanford's Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. He received his secondary education in Moscow and post-graduate education at the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D. 1978, Slavic Languages & Literatures). He has taught at Stanford University since 1977.

The main focus of his research has been Russian culture of the twentieth century. Since the late 1980s, he has also written widely on Russian contemporary culture, society and politics for scholarly and large-circulation periodicals in Russia and US, among them The New Criterion, The New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Nezavisimaia gazeta, and Rossiiskaia gazeta. His publication include:

	Russia at the Barricades: Eyewitness Accounts of the Moscow Coup (August 1991), ed. by Victoria Bonnell, Ann Copper and Gregory Freidin. Introduction by Victoria E. Bonnell and Gregory Freidin (M.E. Sharpe, 1994).
	Russian Culture in Transition (Selected Papers of the International Working Group for the Study of Russian Culture, 1990-1991). Compiled, edited, and with an Introduction and contributions by Gregory Freidin. Stanford Slavic Studies 7 (1993)
	American Federalists: Hamilton, Madison, Jay. Selections. With an Addendum of The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States. Translated into Russian, annotated and with an Introduction by Gregory Freidin. Leon Lipson, Consultant. Edited by V. & L. Chalidze. Benson, Vt.: Chalidze Publications, 1990.
	A Coat of Many Colors: Osip Mandelstam and His Mythologies of Self-Presentation. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987.

Freidin has served on the Board of Editors of the Russian Britannica Project and headed the project in 1994-1995. He has been a member of the Working Group for the Study of Soviet Culture, Committee for the Study of Popular Culture (Joint Committee of the Social Sciences Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, 1989-94); has been a member of the Editorial Board of Central Asian Monitor (1992-); and has served on the Committee for the Study of Popular Culture (Joint Committee of the Social Sciences Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, 1989-91).