Introduction to Russia and Eurasia - Acknowledgments

I am particularly grateful to the associate editors: Robert Austerlitz (Siberia), Clementine Creuziger (East Slavic Peoples), and Kevin Tuite (Caucasus). Marjorie Balzer and Howard Aronson were helpful throughout, particularly in the early stages; I owe them a correspondingly great debt. I want to thank Sergei Arutiunov of Moscow and Mamaykhan Aglarov of Makhachkala, who were extraordinarily generous with time and thought when it came to recruiting authors and providing information. I am thankful to all the contributors but want to single out the following for special mention: Natalia Volkova, Alaina Lemon, John Colarusso, Svetlana Dyer, Dale Pesmen, Stephanie Platz, Vsevolod Naulko, Johanna Nichols, Galina Gracheva, Elisa Watson, Juha Janhunen, Anatoly Khazanov, T. F. Aristova, Uli Schamiloglu, Victor Mote, David Koester, and David Testen.