W. George Krasnow (also published as Vladislav Krasnov),
Ph.D., runs the Russia
and America Goodwill Association,
a non-profit organization of Americans for friendship with Russia.
Formerly, he was a professor and director of Russian Studies at the
Monterey Institute of International Studies in California.
Under the name of Vladislav Krasnov he published three
books:
Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky: A
Study in the Polyphonic Novel (University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1979)
Russia Beyond Communism: A Chronicle
of National Rebirth (Westview Press, 1991)
Soviet Defectors: The KGB wanted
List (Hoover Institution
Press, 1985)
His op-ed columns have appeared in The
Wall Street Journal, New York Times, International Herald Tribune,
San Francisco Examiner, San Diego Union, and Dallas Morning News.
Recent articles, signed W. George Krasnow, can be found
online, as well as in Johnson's Russia List, Russia Blog, Russia: Other
Points of View, OpenDemocracy (UK) and a number of Russian-language
outlets.