Isabel Tirado received her PhD in European History from the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches early modern and modern Russian and Soviet History and World History. She has received fellowships from Fulbright-Hays, Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, IREX, American Philosophical Society, Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center, and National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. She published, Young Guard! The Petrograd Komsomol Organization, 1917-1921 as well as articles on Soviet women and youth, and is currently working on a book about Komsomol organizational efforts among peasants in the decade after the Bolshevik Revolution. Education: PhD, History--University of California at Berkeley, 1985. MA, Russian Area Studies--Hunter College, CUNY, 1973, BA, History and Russian--Hunter College, CUNY, 1969. Selected Publications - Book: 1988 Young Guard! The Petrograd Komsomol Organizations 1917-1920, Greenwood Press.