Ronald Grigor Suny is Wiliam H. Sewell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan; Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago; and Senior Researcher at the Higher School of Economics, National Research University, St. Petersburg, Russia.  He is author of The Baku Commune, 1917-1918; The Making of the Georgian Nation; Looking Toward Ararat:  Armenia in Modern History; The Revenge of the Past:  Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union; The Soviet Experiment:  Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States; “They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide;and co-editor of A Question of Genocide:  Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire.