title: John B. Dunlop
abstract: More than anything, Dunlop was an unusually gifted and insightful student of Russian history both during the communist period and afterwards.In fact, it was Russia, as distinct from the Soviet Union, that was his overwhelming passion, and there was little he did not know about its culture, politics, society, religious life, and myriad other subjects.He recognized the existence and salience of Russian nationalism when most other scholars either ignored or denied its existence.He was ahead of his 
journal: Slavic Review