People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Robert Owen Robert Owen Social reformer who emphasized education and cooperation
- John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes British economist who left the Treasury in protest at the peace treaty and warned of the damage reparations would do
- E. H. Carr E. H. Carr Author of the 14-volume History of Soviet Russia; diagnosed a "latent incompatibility" between NEP markets and planning
- James Martin Stagg James Martin Stagg The meteorologist whose forecast shaped an invasion
- Solly Zuckerman Solly Zuckerman The scientific adviser who made bombing a field of operational research
- Eric Hobsbawm Eric Hobsbawm Historian of revolution’s social foundations and later memory
- Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest A Cold War historian who dissected the Stalin era
- Robert W. Davies Robert W. Davies The British economic historian who built the seven-volume chronicle of Soviet industrialisation
- Roderick MacFarquhar Roderick MacFarquhar Harvard sinologist whose Origins of the Cultural Revolution trilogy and Mao’s Last Revolution dissected China’s elite politics
- Hugh Thomas Hugh Thomas The historian who made the Spanish Civil War a global narrative
- Martin McCauley Martin McCauley A British historian of modern Soviet history
- Alan S. Milward Alan S. Milward The British economic historian whose archival work recast postwar European recovery and integration
- Archie Brown Archie Brown The British political scientist who argued Gorbachev's individual leadership was the decisive factor in transforming the Soviet system
- Sebastian Balfour Sebastian Balfour British historian whose 'Castro' argued US hostility pushed Cuba toward socialism
- Richard Overy Richard Overy A historian who connects war’s military outcomes to its psychological meaning
- Robert Service Robert Service A contentious biographer of Soviet history
- Stephen G. Wheatcroft Stephen G. Wheatcroft Australian economic historian who reconstructed Soviet famine and repression statistics from the archives
- Mark Harrison Mark Harrison the British economic historian whose three-position taxonomy of NEP's failure shaped the historiographical debate
- David Marples David Marples A historian connecting Chernobyl to modern Eastern European history
- Julian Jackson Julian Jackson A historian who clarified the political conflicts of modern France
- Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash British historian who coined 'refolution' to define the peaceful revolutions of 1989
- Helen Graham Helen Graham The British historian who named the Spanish Civil War 'the war before the lights went out'
- Orlando Figes Orlando Figes A historian who wove revolutionary social history into human experience
- Anatol Paul Lieven Peter Paul Anatol Lieven The historian-journalist who chronicled Baltic independence
- Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore Simon Sebag Montefiore A historian of power's intimate worlds
- Adam Higginbotham Adam Higginbotham A journalist who traced the structure of disaster
- Lara Pawson Lara Pawson British journalist and writer who tracked Angola's 1977 massacre through interviews
- Polly Jones Polly Jones A historian of de-Stalinization, memory, and cultural change
- Sergey Sergeyevich Radchenko Сергей Сергеевич Радченко Cold War historian who traced the Sino-Soviet split to inequality within the alliance and clashing national interests
- Roderick Bailey Roderick Bailey Oxford research fellow and historian of Britain's Special Operations Executive