Gábor Egry is senior research fellow and director general at the Institute of Political History, Budapest. His research focuses on nationalism, everyday ethnicity and politics of identity in modern east European history. His latest book Etnicitás, identitás, politka. Magyar kisebbségek nacionalizmus és regionalizmus között Romániában és Csehszlovákiában 1918–1944 (Ethnicity, Identity, Politics: Hungarian Minorities between Nationalism and Regionalism in Romania and Czechoslovakia 1918–1944) analyzed everyday ethnicity in the interwar period and how it was related to politics of identity. He is author of articles published in East Central Europe, Hungarian Historical Review, Historie Otázky Problémy.
Igor Fedyukin is Director of the Center for History Sources, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow. His works have appeared in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Social History, Cahiers du Monde russe, and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, among others, and his forthcoming monograph explores the role of administrative entrepreneurs, or “projectors,” in building new organizational forms in Russian education under Peter I and his immediate successors.
Barbara Martin received her PhD in International History in 2016 from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland). Her research focused on Soviet dissident historians in the post-Stalin era. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow of the Swiss National Foundation for Science at the Research Centre for East European Studies at Bremen University (Germany).
Jeremy Smith is Professor of Russian History and Politics at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. His research has focused on the non-Russian nationalities of the Soviet Union, and he is author of a major monograph on the subject, Red Nations: the Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is now working on the end of the USSR and its aftermath.
Anton Vadimovich Sveshnikov is a doctor of historical science, professor of general history at Omsk F.M. Dostoevsky State University, and chief research fellow of the Poletaev Institute for the Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities at the Higher School of Economics. He is a specialist on the history of historical scholarship in Russia and the Soviet Union, and author of two monographs on the Saint Petersburg school of medieval studies.
Patricia Thurston is team leader of the Specialty Cataloging Team at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University. She has been compiling the annual dissertations list for Slavic Review since 1997. In addition, she has written about collections of Romanian materials in research libraries in the United States. Her current work includes efforts to encourage the implementation of non-Latin scripts used in Russia, Central Asia, and other parts of the world in local and national cataloguing environments.
Anna Toropova is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. She is currently conducting a research project on the intersection of medical knowledge, cinematic technology, and revolutionary agendas of mind-body transformation in early Soviet Russia.
Yury Zaretskiy is Professor at the School of Philosophy of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His work centers on cultural history, self-narrations, and the theory of history. He has authored and edited several books, book chapters, and numerous articles on these topics.
