Tony Wood teaches Latin American history at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work focuses on radical transnational debates on race, class, and the nationĀ-state in Latin America in the 1920s and 1930s, retracing connections between Mexico, Cuba, and the USSR. Previously trained as a specialist on Russia and the former USSR, he is the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence (2007) and Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War (2018).