Stephen F. Jones is an American expert on post-Communist societies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who currently serves as a Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending For the superstate in George Orwell 's novel see Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. South Hadley is a town in Hampshire County Massachusetts, United States The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
Originally from England, Jones received his B. A. in 1974 from the University of Essex, his Ph. The University of Essex is a British Campus university located near the town of Colchester, England D. from the London School of Economics in 1984. The London School of Economics and Political Science, more commonly referred to as The London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist college of the He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1986), the University of London (1986-88), and at the University of Oxford (1988-89). The University of London is a university based primarily in London, England, UK. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the
He specializes in the history and politics of the South Caucasus nations (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan). The South Caucasus is a mountainous geopolitical area of south-central Eurasia, also referred to as Transcaucasia, or The Transcaucasus. Georgia ( საქართველო, Sakartvelo) is a Transcontinental country in the Caucasus region situated at the dividing line between Armenia (Հայաստան transliterated: Hayastan,) officially the Republic of Armenia (Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն Hayastani Azerbaijan ( English; Azərbaycan officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan Respublikası is the largest and most populous country in the South Stephen Jones speaks fluent Georgian and reads Russian and French fluently. Georgian (ka ქართული ენა kartuli ena) is the Official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people He has lectured at various schools in the United States and regularly briefs the CIA and U.S. State Department in the Caucasus. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all The Caucasus ( also referred to as North Caucasus) is a geopolitical region located between Europe Asia & Middle East