Acknowledgments Although I originally envisioned this project to be a solitary one, remi- niscent of my graduate school days of thesis-writing, I quickly learned that writing a book is not a solo project. There were many people involved in the production of this book, and it simply would not have been possible without their help. I would first of all like to thank my wife Olya, who read, edited, translated, transliterated, commented on, and made numerous recommendations to this manuscript and its many versions; she has done much of the yeoman’s work for this book and I am extremely grateful to her. I would also like to thank all my col- leagues from the Davis Center at Harvard University who helped me with various chapters, in particular the Director, Dr. Timothy Colton, and Professors John Schoberlein and Yoshiko Herrera (now at the Uni- versity of Minnesota). Dr. Martin Feldstein, the
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