Ana Siljak is a

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historian and writer. She is best known for her

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-nominated book ''Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World'', a biography of

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published in 2008. She is a professor of Russian and Eastern European history at Queen's University in

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,"Professor nominated for Charles Taylor Prize"
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'', February 5, 2009. and has contributed reviews of history and non-fiction books to the ''

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in history from

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. She was also coauthor with Philipp Ther of ''Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948'' (2001).

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