Zuzanna Bogumil is Assistant Professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw and a member of the Social Memory Laboratory at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. Her recent book is Gulag Memory (Universitas, 2012). Joanna Wawrzyniak is Head of the Social Memory Laboratory at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. Among her recent books is the co-authored oral history documentary, Rebels: the 1970s and 1980s in Poland (Swiat Ksiazki, 2011). Tim Buchen is a research fellow at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). His PhD dissertation on anti-Semitism in Habsburg Galicia won the Immanuel Kant Award from the German Federal Representative for Culture and Media (2012). Christian Ganzer is a PhD student at Leipzig University, Germany. His publications include a monograph on the Museum of the History of the Zaporozhian Cossackdom in the Ukraine (ibidem-Verlag, 2005).

Maria Senina is a historian at the Museum of the Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg. Her main academic interest is the history of Russia at the beginning of twentieth century.