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Her work examines the function of generation and human age in Soviet history and works to insert the stories of underrepresented populations, such as the elderly and women, into consequential debates about stagnation, cultural life, Soviet collapse, post-Soviet economic and political development, and the Russo-Ukrainian war.\r\n\r\n Dr. Leavitt\u2019s first book, *By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine* (2025, FSG), charted the lives of seven Ukrainians through the first year of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. Based on a unique set of online diaries, Leavitt contextualized her seven subjects, Ukrainian society, and its predicaments for a wide audience, introducing readers to a rigorous but accessible history of Ukraine, the Soviet Union, its collapse, and Russia\u2019s historical relationship with its neighbors.\r\n\r\nLeavitt received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2023. 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