Patryk Babiracki is Associate Professor of Russian and East European History at the University of Texas at Arlington and author of Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943–1957 (North Carolina, 2015). He also co-edited two collections of essays devoted to the transnational history of socialism, authored articles in academic journals and general interest periodicals such as New Eastern Europe, The Washington Post, and The Wilson Quarterly. Babiracki's current project, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, re-examines Poland's twentieth-century history through the lens of the Poznań International Trade Fair.
Bradley A. Gorski is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at Georgetown University, where he teaches a range of courses on Russian and comparative literature and culture. His research focuses on late- and post-Soviet literature and literary culture. He is currently completing a monograph titled Cultural Capitalism: Literature and Success after Socialism.
James Heinzen is professor of history at Rowan University. He is the author of two books, The Art of the Bribe: Corruption under Stalin, 1943–1953 (Yale, 2016) and Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917–1929 (Pittsburgh, 2014). He is working on a study of the Soviet shadow economy between the 1950s and the early 1980s.
Antony Kalashnikov is a research fellow at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, NRU Higher School of Economics, and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow (on academic leave) at the University of Alberta. His work on post-Soviet collective memory has appeared in Nationalities Papers and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. Currently, he is completing a monograph (provisionally entitled Monuments for Posterity: Constructing Stalinism's Alternative Future) and is beginning a new project on the censorship of utopian science fiction in the late Soviet period.
Veranika Laputska is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her thesis examines visual propaganda at national commemorations in modern Belarus. Her research interests include the study of nationalism and politics of memory as well as media, visual, and Jewish studies. She holds MA degrees from the European Humanities University (Vilnius), the University of Warsaw, and the University of Lancaster.
David R. Marples is Distinguished University Professor, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta. He is author of sixteen single-authored books and four edited books on topics ranging from contemporary Belarus, contemporary Ukraine, the Chernobyl disaster, twentieth-century Russia, and Stalinism. His recent books include “Our Glorious Past”: Lukashenka's Belarus and the Great Patriotic War (2014); a co-edited book with Frederick Mills, Ukraine's Euromaidan: Analyses of a Civil Revolution (2015); and Ukraine in Conflict: An Analytical Chronicle (2017).
