ALEXANDER HUZHALOUSKI is a professor of History Faculty, Belarusian State
              University, and is a specialist in twentieth century Belarusian culture. His recent
              major publications include: “Из истории продаж белорусских музейных цен-
              ностей за границу,”Праці центру пам’яткознавства 18 (Kiev, 2010).. Вип. 18 and
              “Антисемитизм в обращениях, жалобах, доносах граждан БССР высшему
              партийному руководству. 1951 год,” Заметки по еврейской истории. Сетевой
              журнал еврейской истории, традиции, культуры 4:139 (2011). 
               
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            ALEXANDER MORRISON is a lecturer in Imperial History at the University of
              Liverpool, UK. From 2000-2007 he studied and taught at All Souls College, University
              of Oxford. He is the author of Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910: A Comparison
              with British India (Oxford University Press, 2008). 
               
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            MIKHAIL SUSLOV is a senior research fellow at the Russian Institute for Cultural
              Research in Moscow. His recent publication is “Neo-Slavophilism and the Revolution
              of 1905-07: A Study in the Ideology of S. F. Sharapov,” Revolutionary Russia
              24:1 (June 2011). 
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            TAKIGUCHI JUNYA is a research fellow at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido
              University. After the completion of his Ph.D. research (“The Bolshevik Party Congress,
              1903–1927: Orchestration, Debate and Experiences,” University of Manchester),
              he is currently conducting research on the Party congress during the 1930s
              and on a comparative study of the making of communists. 
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            MIKE WESTRATEis a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame. His publications
              include “Subjectively Stalinist? Orlando’s Figes’ The Whisperers in Historiographical
              Context,” with Maria Rogacheva, The Journal of Modern Russian History
              and Historiography 1:2 (2009). He is currently writing his dissertation, titled: “Under
              the Falling Red Star: The Lives and World of Ukraine’s Final Soviet Generations.” 
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