Professor Young is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Over the course of her career, she become increasingly interested in the USSR's involvement in transnational movements and processes, whether political, social, cultural, or economic.

Research/Teaching Areas: Central Asia, Communism, Historiography, Modern Europe, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Russia, Soviet Union, Spain

Current Projects/Research: "`Where the Spanish Pulse Beats': Moscow's Spanish Center, 1966-2004," in Christopher J. Ward, ed., _The Routledge Handbook of the History of Moscow_ (New York, Routledge, January 28, 2006

Review of Seth Bernstein, Return to the Motherland: Displaced Soviets in WW II and the Cold War

(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023), for H-Diplo. Published in December, 2023. Available at https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20014752/young-bernstein-retur…-

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"Spain and the Early Cold War: The Isolation Paradigm Revisited," _Journal of Cold War Studies_, vol. 24, no. 3 (2022): 43-79.