Professor Jonathan Harris has taught courses in international relations, comparative politics, and on Soviet and Russian foreign and domestic policies at the University of Pittsburgh since the mid-1960s. He has also served as the editor of the Russian and East European Series for the University of Pittsburgh Press since the mid-1980s. His most recent books are Subverting the System: Gorbachev’s Reform of the Party’s Apparat, 1986-1991 and The Split in Stalin’s Secretariat, 1939-1948. He has recently begun research on decision making during the reign of N.S. Khrushchev. Professor Harris is a regular speaker for the World Affairs Council in Pittsburgh and has often commented on Russian affairs for KDKA-TTV, KQV NewsRadio and KPFA in San Francisco. Professor Harris has travelled widely in the USSR and the Russian Federation and worked briefly for the Eurasian Foundation as an observer of Russian local politics. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received a Certificate from the Russian Institute, MIA from the School of International Affairs, and a PhD in political science from Columbia University.