Jörg Baberowski is Professor of Eastern European history at Berlin's Humboldt University. His published works include: Der Rote Terror: Die Geschichte des Stalinismus (2003), Der Sinn der Geschichte: Geschichtstheorien von Hegel bis Foucault (2005), and most recently Verbrannte Erde: Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt (2012; Fischer Taschenbuch 2014), which won the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. His workes have been translated into English, Russian, Polish, Czech an Hungarian.