Mark Louis von Hagen (July 21, 1954 – September 15, 2019)[1][2] was an American military historian who taught Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian history at Arizona State University.
[4] He was commissioned by The New York Times to write an independent assessment of Times correspondent Walter Duranty and his reporting on the Soviet Union after the newspaper received a letter from the Pulitzer Prize Board regarding allegations of Duranty's role in the cover-up of the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine.
Hagen served as the Emeritus Professor of history and global studies with a joint appointment in the School of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies and School of International Letters and Cultures in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.
[9][10] He wrote Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930 (Cornell, 1990) and War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918 (U of Washington Press, 2007);[11][2] was co-editor (with Andreas Kappeler, Zenon Kohut and Frank Sysyn) of Culture, Nation, Identity: the Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, 1600-1945 (Toronto, 2003);[12] and co-edited (with Jane Burbank and Anatoly Remnev) the title Geographies of Empire: Ruling Russia, 1700-1991 (Indiana, 2004).
In 2003, The New York Times commissioned Von Hagen to study Duranty's role in covering up genocide in Ukraine.