People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Hugh Thomas Hugh Thomas The historian who made the Spanish Civil War a global narrative
- Vladimir Tismăneanu Vladimir Tismăneanu Romanian-American political scientist and authority on the 1989 revolutions
- Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama The scholar who read 1989 as liberal democracy's endpoint
- Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash British historian who coined 'refolution' to define the peaceful revolutions of 1989