About the Guest Editor

Abstract

It is a pleasure to introduce readers to my colleague, Professor John J. Stephan, who translated and edited this issue of Soviet Studies in History. Professor of History at the University of Hawaii, Stephan did his undergraduate work at Harvard University, where he also completed an M.A. degree in East Asian Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Japanese History from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. His numerous publications include Sakhalin: A History (1971); The Kuril Islands: Russo-Japanese Frontier in the Pacific (1974); The Russian Fascists: Tragedy and Farce in Exile, 1925-1945 (1978); and Hawaii Under the Rising Sun: Japan's Plans for Conquest After Pearl Harbor (1984). A frequent traveler to both Japan and the Soviet Far East, Stephan speaks fluent Japanese and Russian. His current research centers on Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Readers of Soviet Studies in History should look forward to his forthcoming book, co-edited with V. P. Chichkanov, Director of the Institute of Economic Research, Far East Science Center, Khabarovsk, Soviet-American Horizons on the Pacific, which will be published in the United States by the University of Hawaii Press and in the USSR by Progress Publishers.