Judith Pallot: Since 1980 Official Student of Christ Church - tutor in geography - and lecturer in the Oxford centre of the Environment where she gives lectures and classes on the former Soviet Union and Russia. Prior to 1980 Judith Pallot taught at Leeds University. She has been involved in Russian Studies since the early 1970s, and made her first extended visit to Russia as a post graduate in 1971. Her research initially focused on the historical geography of the Russian peasantry and was based on the use of Russian archives but with the collapse of communism and the possibility of con...