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De'Vonte Tinsley (2020 & 2022)

Virginia Tech

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De’Vonte Tinsley is a rising senior at Virginia Tech majoring in Russian and history with a minor in Russian Area Studies. He has been passionate about Soviet history since elementary school and is dedicated to becoming a lifelong speaker of Russian. He is primarily interested in the questions of state building, nationality, and class loyalty and structure during the Russian Civil Wars of 1916-1926 and plans to continue his academic career by receiving his PhD in Russian and Soviet history.