People of the Revolution and the USSR
- William Chase Taubman William Chase Taubman A biographer who reshaped the study of Soviet leadership
- Bruce Cumings Bruce Cumings The revisionist historian who recast the Korean War as fundamentally a civil war
- Angela Davis Angela Davis Marxist feminist philosopher who theorised the prison-industrial complex, co-founder of Critical Resistance
- William Whitney Stueck William Stueck The US diplomatic historian who reframed the Korean War as a substitute for World War III and led the post-revisionist challenge to Cumings
- Amy Knight Amy Knight The American historian whose Beria biography revealed the paradox of Stalin's executioner as unlikely reformer
- David Kotz David M. Kotz A political economist of Soviet system change
- Richard B. Frank Richard B. Frank An archival military historian of the Pacific War
- Robert C. Allen Robert C. Allen The Oxford economic historian who reassessed Soviet industrialization as one of the most successful development stories of the 20th century
- Jonathan Brent Jonathan Brent American historian and publisher who documented Stalin's last conspiracy
- J. Arch Getty J. Arch Getty A revisionist historian of Soviet political history
- Barry Eichengreen Barry Eichengreen An economist who reads international monetary order through history
- Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama The scholar who read 1989 as liberal democracy's endpoint
- Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz A scholar who reread war after withdrawal
- Mark R. Beissinger Mark R. Beissinger Political scientist who argued the Soviet collapse was produced by the event-driven tide of nationalism, not structural inevitability
- Edward W. Walker Edward W. Walker A political scientist who analyzed Soviet dissolution through the paradoxes of federalism
- Rafael Reuveny Rafael Reuveny Israeli-born political economist who established the causal-mechanism framework linking the Soviet-Afghan war to the USSR's collapse
- Stephen Mark Kotkin Stephen Mark Kotkin The structural analyst of the Soviet collapse who argued the system was not dying
- Hope M. Harrison Hope M. Harrison A Cold War historian who recast the Berlin Wall's origins
- Terry Martin Terry Martin The historian who redefined the USSR as an 'affirmative action empire' rather than a 'prison of nations'
- Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum A historian of Soviet and Eastern European memory
- Kate Brown Kate Brown Environmental historian who traced Chernobyl's concealed death toll
- Daniel Kowalsky Daniel Kowalsky American historian who reassessed Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War using declassified archives
- Francine Hirsch Francine Hirsch American historian who argued the USSR continued the imperial ethnographic practices of the tsarist state
- David Brandenberger David Brandenberger The American Soviet historian who mapped the three schools of Leningrad Affair historiography
- Kristen Ghodsee Kristen Ghodsee An ethnographer of the social costs of the post-1989 transition
- James Heinzen James Heinzen A historian who anatomized the Soviet countryside state
- Jennifer Frost Jennifer Frost A US historian who redefined the question of how the Space Race should be measured
- Mark Kramer Mark Kramer A historian who decoded the Cold War archives