Mark Edele is the inaugural Hansen Professor in History at the University of Melbourne where he also serves as Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Arts. He is a historian of the Soviet Union and its successor states, in particular Russia.He was trained as a historian at the Universities of Erlangen, Tübingen, Moscow and Chicago. His latest book, entitled Stalinism at War. The Soviet Union in World War II, was published in 2021. He teaches the histories of the Soviet Union, of the Second World War, and of dictatorship and democracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.