Recent doctoral program graduate Kyungtaek Kwon has published an article in the journal Russian History. Titled “Inspection journey of K.E. Voroshilov to the Far East (1931),” the article follows the travels of prominent Soviet official K.E. Voroshilov to military and industrial facilities in the Volga region, the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East. Kwon shows that Voroshilov sought to evaluate the process and results of the industrialization and militarization of the USSR in defense preparations.

Kwon completed his graduate work under the advisement of Dr. Matthew J. Payne in 2023. His dissertation was titled, “Identifying the City: Komsomol’sk-na-Amure Transformation from Military Outpost to the City of Youth in the Soviet Far East, 1932-1982.” He has recently been appointed assistant professor in the History Department of Pusan National University.