Dmitry Asinovskiy is a Knapp Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. His forthcoming monograph, based on his Ph.D. dissertation, A Curse of Anti-Imperialism: The Ideological Worldview and Soviet Support for Ayatollah Khomeini, is currently under review for publication. Earlier, Asinovskiy worked as a Global IAS Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University in Budapest, Nizami Ganjavi Fellow at the University of Oxford, St. Gallen Fellow at New Europe College, Bucharest, and Visiting Fellow at the School of Historical Studies of Tel Aviv University. His recent publications include: “Rostislav Ulianovskii, the Tudeh Party of Iran, and Soviet Attempts to Set Iran on a Non-capitalist Path of Development (1979-83),” Cold War History (2023), and “A Priest Does Not Consider the Toppling of the Shah as an Option: The KGB and the Revolution in Iran,” Iranian Studies (2022).