Yan Mann is an Associate Clinical Professor of History and the Program Lead of the World War II Studies master’s degree program at Arizona State University. He is a co-editor of The Eastern Front: War, Myth, and Memory and author of "Situating Stalin in the history of the Second World War," in the edited volume, The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia and "Manufactured Memory: Crafting the Cult of the Great Patriotic War," in the edited volume, Terrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide. His research revolves around the relationship between individual and collective memory of the Great Patriotic War, the Stalin cult, censorship, propaganda, and the production of the war’s first official history during Khrushchev’s thaw. He specializes in the Second World War, the Soviet Union, and War and Society.
