A prominent British historian has found a new way to get in trouble: Orlando Figes, a historian of Stalin’s Russia at Birkbeck College, London, and a contributor to the New York Review, has admitted that his wife has been publishing hostile comments about rival historians at Amazon.co.uk under a pseudonym.
The practice of using a pseudonym to post denunciations of rivals or critics on the internet is called “using a sock puppet.” CONTINUED at TheNation.com: HERE.