People of the Revolution and the USSR
- 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
- Asif Siddiqi Asif Siddiqi The Bangladeshi-American historian who founded the modern archival study of the Soviet space program
- Daniel Kowalsky Daniel Kowalsky American historian who reassessed Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War using declassified archives
- Daron Acemoglu Daron Acemoğlu Nobel laureate who showed why the Kosygin reform was structurally doomed by extractive institutions
- Francine Hirsch Francine Hirsch American historian who argued the USSR continued the imperial ethnographic practices of the tsarist state
- Jay Bhattacharya Jayanta Bhattacharya A health economist who traced causal links in public policy
- 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
- Nancy Qian Nancy Qian An economist who traces state policy through historical data
- Artemy Mikhailovich Kalinovsky Артемий Михайлович Калиновский Cold War historian who analyzed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan as a 'long goodbye'
- 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