Judith Devlin taught modern history in University College Dublin until her retirement in 2017. She has published books and articles on French and Soviet history. Her most recent publications are: World War 1 in Central and Eastern Europe co-edited with John Paul Newman and Maria Falina (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2018, Bloomsbury, 2019 pbk); ‘Art Censorship in Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s’ in Rόisin Kennedy and Riann Coulter eds, Censoring Art: Silencing the Artwork (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2018) pp.47-69; ‘The Stalin Cult in Comparative Context’ in Susan Grant and James Ryan eds, Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions and Controversies (London, Bloomsbury, 2021); ‘Visual Channels: Posters and Fine Art’ in Kirill Postoutenko, Alexey Tikhomirov, Dmitri Zakharine eds, Media and Communication in the Soviet Union (1917-1953) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp.21-35..