Gleb Tsipursky is Assistant Professor of History at The Ohio State University. His research is in the field of modern Russian and Eurasian history, with a particular interest in socialist modernity, youth, consumption, popular culture, emotions, the Cold War, crime, violence, and social controls.
His publications have appeared in the United States, France, Germany, Canada, England, and Russia, notably a brief monograph titled Having Fun in the Thaw: Youth Initiative Clubs in the Post-Stalin Years, in the series, The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, #2201 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012). Currently, he is completing a research project on Soviet youth and popular culture during the early and mid-Cold War period, called Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Cold War Soviet Union, 1945-1970. In addition, he has begun research on his next book-length study, Patrolling Soviet and Post-Soviet Society: Volunteer Police in the USSR and Post-Soviet Russia, 1945-2010.
Tsipursky holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina.
