People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov Георгий Хосроевич Шахназаров Founder of Soviet political science and brains of perestroika's political reform
- Sergo Anastasi Mikoyan Серго Анастасович Микоян A historian who reconstructed the Cold War’s hidden record
- Abel Gezevich Aganbegyan Абел Гезевич Аганбегян Gorbachev's chief economic adviser and the market-reform architect of perestroika
- Ronald Grigor Suny Ronald Grigor Suny The historian who argued the USSR built nations, not destroyed them, the 'revenge of the past' thesis
- Daron Acemoglu Daron Acemoğlu Nobel laureate who showed why the Kosygin reform was structurally doomed by extractive institutions