He is founder and co-blogger at the Russian History Blog and served as the project director and lead historian for the web exhibit Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives. Barnes has published widely on a number of topics dealing with Soviet cultural and social history. His articles have appeared in the Slavic Review, Kritika, and International Labor and Working Class History. Barnes�s latest research focuses on post-1968 Soviet history. This book project will examine the information flow in a highly authoritarian state, the popular response to conflicting information, and the relationship between the loss of ideological fervor and the daily life of Soviet citizens.