Stephen Lovell

I am Professor of Modern History at King’s College London. I have written widely on Russian social and cultural history, with particular interests in media and communications, old age and generations, urbanization and urban culture, and voting and political culture in the Russian Empire and the USSR. I am currently researching the history of voting from Catherine the Great to Putin, a project supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. I was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2004. I am the author of the prize-winning Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000 (2003) and Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919–1970 (2015), as well as five other books covering periods from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.I am a former editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and now serve on the editorial board of Past and Present.