People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Alexandr Alexandrovich Fursenko Александр Александрович Фурсенко The historian who first reconstructed the Cuban Missile Crisis from Soviet archives
- Alexei Vladimirovich Yablokov Алексей Владимирович Яблоков An ecologist who tracked Chernobyl’s long-term human costs
- Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky Эдвард Станиславович Радзинский A popular historian who reconstructed Russia’s tragedies through archives and drama
- Leonid Yanovich Gibianskii Леонид Янович Гибианский The historian whose archival discoveries rewrote the study of the Tito-Stalin split
- Yuri Nikolayevich Zhukov Юрий Николаевич Жуков A historian who reopened the question of responsibility in the Stalin era
- Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov Валерий Александрович Тишков An ethnologist who challenged the nation as a fixed essence
- Yuri Markovich Goland Юрий Маркович Голанд Economist who began with NEP studies and framed the Kosygin-reform debate
- Evgeny Mikhailovich Andreev Евгений Михайлович Андреев A mathematical demographer who made mortality and life expectancy legible
- Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznechevsky Владимир Дмитриевич Кузнечевский A historian who traces the Russian question through Soviet history
- Aleksandr Antonovich Lyakhovsky Александр Антонович Ляховский Russian general-major and insider historian of the Afghan war
- Aleksei Polyansky Алексей Полянский The KGB-veteran writer who published Yezhov's case file wrapped in novelistic reconstruction
- Rustem Makhmutovich Nureyev Рустем Махмутович Нуреев The institutional economist who crystallized the 50-year debate over the Kosygin reform in a single book title
- Gennady Vasilyevich Kostyrchenko Геннадий Васильевич Костырченко The archival historian of Stalin's state antisemitism who argued the 1953 deportation was a myth
- Vladislav Martinovich Zubok Владислав Мартинович Зубок The Cold War historian who read the Soviet collapse as 'a perfect storm and a hapless captain': a man-made disaster
- Oleg Vitalyevich Khlevniuk Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк An archival historian of Stalin's political power
- Sergei Viktorovich Iarov Сергей Викторович Яров A historian who widened the blockade story from heroism to everyday ethics
- Leonid Anatolyevich Naumov Леонид Анатольевич Наумов The Moscow history teacher who read the Great Terror through its regional statistics
- Yuri Mikhailovich Kilin Юрий Михайлович Килин A historian who recalculated the Winter War casualty record
- Kirill Anatolyevich Boldovsky Кирилл Анатольевич Болдовский A historian tracing what the Leningrad Affair left unresolved
- Aleksandr Vladimirovich Pyzhikov Александр Владимирович Пыжиков A historian of the 1950s-60s USSR and the Russian church schism
- Aleksandr Vladlenovich Shubin Александр Владленович Шубин A historian who reads the Soviet collapse as elite power struggle
- Andrei Valerevich Sushkov Андрей Валерьевич Сушков Historian who advanced an alternative theory that corruption among Leningrad leaders provoked the late-Stalinist purge
- Andrei Mikhailovich Markevich Андрей Михайлович Маркевич A quantitative reinterpreter of Russian economic history
- Alexei Vasilyevich Safronov Алексей Васильевич Сафронов A historian of the Soviet economy's reform possibilities and limits
- Nikita Yuryevich Pivovarov Никита Юрьевич Пивоваров A historian of the institutional limits of Soviet industrial reform