His grandfather was Israel M. Goodelman with Bessarabian roots. Jay Bergman received his B.A., magna cum laude, with honors in history, from Brandeis University in 1970. He received hisM.A. (1972), M. Phil. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) from Yale University. Dr. Bergman joined the CCSU faculty in 1990. Prior to his arrival at CCSU, he taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Miami, and Albright College. His teaching interests include modern Russian history, modern European history, and intellectual history. His most recent book, The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture, was published in 2019 by Oxford University Press. His first book, Vera Zasulich: A Biography, published in 1983 by Stanford University Press, was translated into Japanese. His second book, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov, published in 2009 by Cornell University Press, was an Alternate Selection of the History Book Club. Interviews he has given on matters concerning Russian and Soviet history have appeared in Harper's Magazine and been broadcast into Russia by Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe. He has also participated in online symposia on recent events in Russia. Dr. Bergman is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars and presi- dent ofits Connecticut Affiliate.