Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society -

Julie Fedor is lecturer in modern European history at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of in Eastern Europe aRussia and the Cult of State Security; coauthor of Remembering Katyn; and coeditor of Memory and Theory nd Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States.

Andriy Portnov is currently guest lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His publications include Histories for Home Use: The Polish-Russian Ukrainian Triangle of Memory (Yuri Shevelov Prize); Historians and Their Histories: The Faces and Images of Ukrainian Historiography in the Twentieth Century; Ukrainian Exercises with History; Between "Central Europe" and the "Russian World"; and Scholarship in Exile: The Scholarly Activity of Ukrainian Emigration in Interwar Poland 1919-1939.

Andreas Umland is a researcher of contemporary Russian and Ukrainian politics with a focus on the post-Soviet extreme right, at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine, and the Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies, Germany. He is also initiator and codirector of a Master's program in German and European Studies administered jointly by Kyiv's Mohyla Academy and Jena's Schiller University.