Mark B. Smith teaches in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in the history of the Soviet Union.
His latest project, about Soviet civilization after the death of Stalin, was published in early 2026 by Allen Lane/Penguin in the UK and Liveright/W. W. Norton in the US.
Mark is now working on a prequel, covering 1917 to 1953, again for Allen Lane/Penguin.