Simone Attilio Bellezza is a fellow at the School of Advanced Historical Studies, University of San Marino, and earned his Ph.D. in European social history in 2007. He will spend four months at Harvard (February–May 2008) studying the topic “The Shestydesiatnyky and the Language Question from Khrushchev’s Reform of Education to Petro Shelest’s Removal (1955–73),” focusing on the battle for the use of the Ukrainian language as a means of diffusion of culture and scientific knowledge.