People of the Revolution and the USSR
- 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
- Adam Higginbotham Adam Higginbotham A journalist who traced the structure of disaster
- Jay Bhattacharya Jayanta Bhattacharya A health economist who traced causal links in public policy
- Lara Pawson Lara Pawson British journalist and writer who tracked Angola's 1977 massacre through interviews
- 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
- Polly Jones Polly Jones A historian of de-Stalinization, memory, and cultural change
- Hennadii Hryhorovych Yefimenko Геннадій Григорович Єфіменко A historian of state and society in Soviet Ukraine
- Jeronim Perović Jeronim Perović The Swiss historian whose archival research overturned the received Yugoslav narrative of the Tito-Stalin split
- Andrei Valerevich Sushkov Андрей Валерьевич Сушков Historian who advanced an alternative theory that corruption among Leningrad leaders provoked the late-Stalinist purge
- Nancy Qian Nancy Qian An economist who traces state policy through historical data
- Andrei Mikhailovich Markevich Андрей Михайлович Маркевич A quantitative reinterpreter of Russian economic history
- László Ritter Ritter László An archival historian of Cold War military affairs
- Sergey Sergeyevich Radchenko Сергей Сергеевич Радченко Cold War historian who traced the Sino-Soviet split to inequality within the alliance and clashing national interests
- Alexei Vasilyevich Safronov Алексей Васильевич Сафронов A historian of the Soviet economy's reform possibilities and limits
- Ahmed Ismail Samatar Axmed Ismaaciil Samatar Somali scholar who critiqued the Barre regime's rhetoric against its reality
- Ainius Lasas Ainius Lašas Lithuanian political scientist of Baltic politics and international relations
- Artemy Mikhailovich Kalinovsky Артемий Михайлович Калиновский Cold War historian who analyzed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan as a 'long goodbye'
- Gentiana Kera Gentiana Kera Historian of socialist-era Albanian historiography and its party control
- 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
- Leonid Moiseyevich Sabsovich Леонид Моисеевич Сабсович The economist who blueprinted Stalin's accelerated industrialization, standard-bearer of the 'socialist city' Urbanists
- Mark Kramer Mark Kramer A historian who decoded the Cold War archives
- Nikita Yuryevich Pivovarov Никита Юрьевич Пивоваров A historian of the institutional limits of Soviet industrial reform
- Roderick Bailey Roderick Bailey Oxford research fellow and historian of Britain's Special Operations Executive
- Susanne Dahlgren Susanne Dahlgren Finnish social anthropologist of southern Yemen and Aden