About the Author

The Author: Zdenko Zlatar is Reader in Slavic History at the University of Sydney where he has taught Russian, East European, and modern European history since 1979. He is Vice President of the Commission internationale des etudes historiques slaves in Paris. He is the author of four other books including The Slavic Epic: Gundulic's Osman (Peter Lang, 1995), which together with the two volumes of The Poetics of Slavdom forms Zlatar's Slavic epic trilogy.