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\"\"A specialist in the interdisciplinary history of Russian technology, science, culture, and the arts, Prof. Palmer earned his B.A. in History and Slavic Languages & Literatures from the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Cambridge University Press, 2006),\u00a0co-editor of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia\u2019s Great War and Revolution<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(<\/span>Slavica Publishers<\/span>, 2022) and\u00a0How History is Made: A Student\u2019s Guide to the Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline<\/em><\/a> (Mavs Open Press, 2022), and editor of the c<\/span>ollection\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Flight Culture and the Human Experience<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em>(Texas A&M University Press, 2025)<\/span><\/span>. His current book-length project, How Russia was Made: Technology and Culture from the Icon to the iMac<\/em>, examines the foreign origins and domestic transformation of major technological systems from the founding of the Kievan state through the opening decades of the twenty-first century. He is the founder, President and CEO of SPOKE Educational Network, Inc.<\/a> (SPOKE-Network\u2122<\/a>) which serves as home to “Introduction to Russian Culture.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A specialist in the interdisciplinary history of Russian technology, science, culture, and the arts, Prof. Palmer earned his B.A. in History and Slavic Languages & Literatures from the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. in History from the University of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":891,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","","tg-column-two"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6CYNa-th","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3169,"url":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/russianhistory\/smu-textbooks\/","url_meta":{"origin":1815,"position":0},"title":"SMU Textbooks","author":"gensek","date":"August 13, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Each image links to the book at Barnes and Noble.com \u00a0 Russia: A History ISBN: \u200e 9780199560417 Author: Gregory L. 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