Lynne Viola is a scholar on the Soviet Union.
She is a professor at the University of Toronto and has written four books and 30 articles.
[1] Viola graduated from Barnard College in 1978 and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984.
In 2014, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada.
In 2018, she was the recipient of the Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize.