Rebecca Adeline Johnston

Rebecca Adeline Johnston is a historian at the University of Kansas specializing in Soviet culture and power, with an interdisciplinary focus on information warfare in the Russian and broader post-Soviet space. She holds a doctoral degree from the Department of History at the University of Texas-Austin.

• Research Focus: Examines evolving conceptions of culture in Soviet politics (1953-1964) and analyzes Russian state-sponsored cultural production as a tool for military success in the Ukraine war.
• Expertise: Archival research (Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine), historical truth defense, and information warfare dynamics.

Scientific Awards:

• ASEEES Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program
• National Council for Eurasian and East European Research

Academic Contributions: Currently developing a digital showcase of Russian cultural production and authoring a book manuscript titled The End of Illusion: Putting Culture to Work in the Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1964. Her work integrates interdisciplinary methodologies to explore cultural-political intersections.