Natalya Naumenko is an assistant professor at the Depart­ment of Economics at George Mason University. Her research concentrates on economic history and political economy with a particular focus on Russia and the former Soviet Union. She gradu­ated from Northwestern University in 2018. Before joining Mason, she did a postdoc at the Political Theory Project at Brown University. Her website is here: https://www.natalyanaumenko.com/