Darrel Slider, Ph.D.

USF

Darrell Slider began his training as a specialist on the Soviet Union at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in the 1970s, and then completed an MA in Russian Studies and a PhD in Political Science at Yale.  He has published widely on the politics of the USSR, the Georgian Republic, and Russia.  He coauthored (with Stephen White and Graham Gill) The Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future(Cambridge University Press, 1993).   Starting in 1981 he taught Soviet and Russian politics at the University of South Florida (Tampa) where he is currently Emeritus Professor.  Dr. Slider has lived for lengthy periods in the former Soviet Union starting with his PhD dissertation research in 1979-80.  He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2004-05 and again in 2017-18.