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Gleb J. Albert

M.A., born in 1981. Studied history and Slavonic philology in Cologne and Kraków.

Participated in several documentary edition projects at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research. Currently works on a PhD thesis on “Representations and Practices of Revolutionary Internationalism in Early Soviet Society, 1917-1927” as a scholarship holder at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University. Junior editor of the International Newsletter of Communist Studies. Contact: gleb.albert[at]uni-bielefeld.de,

Turganbek Allaniiazov

Candidate of Sciences, born in 1956, Professor of History, University of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Research fields: Kazakh history of the 20^th century, History of resistance against Stalinism. Recent monograph: Posledniy rubezh zashchitnikov nomadizma. Istoriya vooruzhennykh vystupleniy i povstancheskikh dvizheniy v Kazakhstane (1929-1931 gg.), Almaty 2009. Contact: klio56[at]mail.ru,

Bernhard H. Bayerlein

Dr. phil., Historiker und Romanist am Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung der Universität Mannheim, seit 2009 assoziierter Forscher am Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschungen, Potsdam. Autor historischer/ regionaler Studien/ Editionen in Deutschland, Frankreich, der Schweiz, den Niederlanden, Portugal; (Co-)Autor u.a. Archives de Jules Humbert-Droz (1983-2001); Georg Dimitroff: Tagebücher (2000), Paris-Berlin-Moscou.

Télégrammes chiffrés du Komintern (2003), Der Thälmann-Skandal (2003), Deutscher Oktober 1923. Ein Revolutionsplan und sein Scheitern (2003), Mitherausgeber "Jahrbuch für historische Kommunismusforschung" (Berlin), Herausgeber "International Newsletter of Communist Studies/Online" (Mannheim-Berlin). Kontakt: bayerlein[at]zzf-pdm.de,

Marcel Bois

M.A., born in 1978. PhD student in history at the University of Hamburg. His dissertation examines the Left Opposition within the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1924 to 1933. Selected publications: “Ein kleiner Boom. Entwicklungen und Tendenzen der KPD- Forschung seit 1989/90“. In: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2010, pp.

309-322 (co-written with Florian Wilde); Review Article on Christian Gotthardt: Die radikale Linke als Massenbewegung. In: Historical Materialism 17 (2009), pp. 191-200; “Vergessene Kommunisten. Die ’Weddinger Opposition’ der KPD“. In: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2008, pp. 58-67; “Clara Zetkin und die Stalinisierung von KPD und Komintern“. In: Ulla Plener (Ed.): Clara Zetkin in ihrer Zeit. Neue Fakten, Erkenntnisse, Wertungen, Berlin 2008, pp. 149-156. Contact: marcel.bois[at]gmx.de,

Christian Booß

Born in 1953 in Berlin (West). Scientific project manager for the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic (BStU), Berlin, Germany. Research Fields: lawyers in later GDR, system of information of state security, Stasi and media in GDR, liquidation of state security, memory works at the end of GDR. Contact: Christian.Booss[at]bstu.bund.de,

Hernán Camarero

PhD, Teacher and researcher in the field of Argentina's contemporary history at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras y Facultad de Ciencias Sociales at the University of Buenos Aires and the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. Latest books: El Partido Socialista en Argentina. Sociedad, política e ideas a través de un siglo (co-edited with Carlos M. Herrera, 2005); A la conquista de la clase obrera. Los comunistas y el mundo del trabajo en la Argentina. 1920-1935 (2007). Contact: hernancamarero[at]ciudad.com.ar,

Lev Centrih

Historian and sociologist, PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Research interest: history of radical social movements, Marxism-Leninism, theory of history, theory of ideology, epistemology of social sciences. Books: Marxism and Linguistics (2005, co-ed.), Uneventment of History. The Case of Yugoslavia (2008, co-ed.); Articles: The Stalinist Structure and its Reader (2005), On the Significance of the Communist Party of Slovenia during the Second World War and its Aftermath (2008), The Journal Perspektive and Socialist Self-Management in Slovenia: In Search of a New Anti-Stalinist Society. Towards a Materialist Survey of Communist Ideology (INCS, 2009),

Diego Ceruso

Born in 1980 in Argentine. Professor of secondary and university educacion in History received at the University of Buenos Aires. Graduate in History, University of Buenos Aires.

Fields of research: communism and syndicalism, labour militancy in the factory. Contact:

Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

Ph.D. Born in 1948. Retired Surendra Nath Banerjee Professor of Political Science, Calcutta University, India. Areas of interest: International Communist Movement, Intellectual History of Marxism. Recent publications: Comintern and the Destiny of Communism in India, 1919-1943 (Calcutta, Seribaan, 2006); (Ed.) The Ryutin Platform. Stalin and the Crisis of Proletarian Dictatorship (Calcutta, Seribaan, 2010). Contact:

dattagupta_s[at]rediffmail.com,

Magali Delaloye

PhD-student at Bern University (Switzerland) and at the EHESS, Paris. Born in 1978.

Research fields: History of Stalin and Stalinism, gender studies, micro-history, historical anthropology. Last publication: Emocii v mikromire Stalina: Sluchai Nikolaia Bukharina (1937-1938). Tipy bol’shevitskoj muzhestvennosti i praktiki emocii, in: Jan Plamper, Schamma Schahadat, Marc Elie (eds.): Rossiiskaia imperiia chuvstv. Podkhody k kul’turnoi istorii emocii (forthcoming 2010). Contact: magali.delaloye[at]unil.ch,

Nikolas R. Dörr

Magister Artium, Diplom-Politologe, born in 1979. PhD student at the Centre for Research on Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany. Research fields: History and Theory of International Relations, Cold War Studies, Comparative Communist history. Recent monographs: Die Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands im Parlamentarischen Rat 1948/1949, Berlin 2007; Kommunismus im Wandel. Die kommunistischen Parteien Frankreichs, Finnlands und Italiens im Zuge des Eurokommunismus, Berlin 2006. Contact:

doerr[at]zzf-pdm.de,

Romain Ducoulombier

Docteur et agrégé d'histoire, chercheur associé au Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire (CRULH) de l'université de Metz, enseignant, auteur d'une thèse (IEP de Paris, 2007) Régénérer le socialisme. Aux origines du communisme en France, qui sera publiée chez Perrin en 2010. Contact: romain.ducoulombier[at]gmail.com,

Ulrich Eumann

PhD, born in 1960, works since 2008 as Research fellow in the project “Opposition and Resistance against the Nazi Regime in Cologne, 1933-45“ of the Center for the Documentation of National Socialism in Cologne. Research fields: working class movement in the Weimar Republic, Communism, National Socialism and resistance against, social network analysis. Contact: ulrich.eumann[at]t-online.de,

Jens Gieseke

Dr. phil., born in 1964. Senior researcher at the Center of Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany. Research fields: History of Communist East Germany, history of secret polices in Communist countries. Recent publication: Handbuch der kommunistischen Geheimdienste in Osteuropa 1944-1991, Göttingen 2008 (Co-editor, with Krzysztof Persak and Łukasz Kamiński). Contact: gieseke[at]zzf-pdm.de,

Alexis Hofmeister

PhD, born in 1973. Assistant Professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne, Germany, Department of East European History. Research fields: Jewish Autobiography, Knowledge History of Ethnography. Monograph: Selbstorganisation und Bürgerlichkeit.

Jüdisches Vereinswesen in Odessa um 1900, Göttingen 2007 [Self-Organization and Bourgeois Culture. Jewish Sociability in Odessa around 1900]. Contact:

alexis.hofmeister[at]uni-koeln.de,

Ralph Hug

Studied philosophy and German literature at the University of Zurich and works as a journalist and publisher in St. Gallen/Switzerland. He has published numerous articles on the Spanish Civil War and is author of “St.Gallen-Moskau-Aragón. Das Leben des Spanienkämpfers Walter Wagner” (2007) as well as co-author together with Peter Huber of

“Die Schweizer Spanienfreiwilligen. Biografisches Handbuch” (2009). He is also founder of the Interessengemeinschaft Spanienfreiwillige who achieved the political rehabilitation of the Swiss Interbrigadists in 2009. Contact: hug[at]pressebuero-sg.ch,

Christoph Kapp

M.A., geb. 1977, ist Stipendiat des Graduiertenkollegs Walther Rathenau (Potsdam) und promoviert über Leben und Wirken des Publizisten Walter Boehlich. Kontakt:

christophkapp[at]freenet.de,

Lazar Kheifets

Doctór Titular en História por el Instituto de Latinoamérica de la Academía de Ciencias de Rusia. Profesor titular de la Universidad Estatal de San Petersburgo, investigador del Instituto de Latinoamérica de la ACR, profesor catedrático del Instituto Regional Leningradense de Economía y Finanzas. Miembro del Advisory Board del “International Newsletter of Communist Studies” (Alemania). Una de las vertientes de su trabajo académico durante más de 35 años ha sido el rescate de archivos relacionados con la historia de la izquierda latinoamericana y el análisis posterior de su desarrollo histórico.

Durante varios años revisó los fondos del Archivo Estatal Ruso de Historia Social y Política,

del Archivo Estatal de la Federación Rusa y Archivo de la Política Exterior de la Federación Rusa. Autor y coautor de más de 100 artículos relacionados al tema y de 6 monografías, inc.

el diccionario biográfico de la Comintern en Latinoamérica. Contacto: jeifets[at]gmail.com.

Victor Kheifets

Dóctor en História por la Universidad Estatal de San Petersburgo (Federación Rusa) Profesor docente de la Universidad Estatal Aerocósmica de San-Petersburgo (Depto de Relaciones Economicas Internacionales) y del Instituto de Derecho y Negocios Internacionales; corresponsal de las revistas “América Latina” del Instituto de Latinoamerica de Academia de Ciencias Rusa y “The International Newsletter of Communist Studies”

(Alemania). Miembro del Consejo Editorial de la revista electrónica “Izquierdas” (Chile). Una de las vertientes de su trabajo académico (más de 60 artículos relacionados al tema y 3 monografías) ha sido el rescate de archivos relacionados con la historia de la izquierda latinoamericana y el análisis posterior de su desarrollo histórica sobre la base de nuevos documentos. Contacto: jeifets[at]gmail.com.

Endre Kiss

Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (D.Sc.), PhD. Born in 1947. Professor at the Department of Modern Philosophy of the Humanities Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest and at the Department of Theoretical Andragogy at the West-Hungarian University (Szombathely). Most important fields of research: Friedrich Nietzsche, Globalization, Marx and History of Marxism. Latest book: Hermann Brochs literarische Freundschaften (Tübingen 2008). Contact: andkiss[at]hu.inter.net.

Peer H. Lange

PhD, German, born in Riga 1932, 1971-1997 research staff of the "Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik" at Ebenhausen (Securitiy Policy Affairs in Eastern Europe); Numerous articles, studies and papers on related matters. Publications a.o.: „Stalinismus versus

‚Sozialfaschismus’ und ‚Nationalfaschismus’“ (Göppingen 1969), „Das Baltikum als eine Aufgabe für die integrative Gestaltgebung Europas“ (in: APuZ [1998], B. 37). Contact: peer- lange[at]gmx.de.

Ottokar Luban

Geb. 1937, Lehrer (Hauptfach: Geschichte, pens.), Historiker. Publikationen zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, v.a. zu Rosa Luxemburg und der Spartakusgruppe. Letzte Veröffentlichung: Rosa Luxemburgs Demokratiekonzept (2008). Kontakt: oluban[at]gmx.de.

Andreas Malycha

Dr. phil., geb. 1956. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München- Berlin, mit einem Projekt zur Geschichte der SED. Publikationen: Die Akademie der Pädagogischen Wissenschaften der DDR 1970-1990 (2008); Die SED. Geschichte einer deutschen Partei (2009, gemeinsam mit Peter Jochen Winters). Kontakt: malycha[at]ifz- muenchen.de.

Jascha März

M.A., born 1986, Research assistant in the project “Opposition and Resistance against the Nazi Regime in Cologne, 1933-45“ of the Center for the Documentation of National Socialism in Cologne, Research fields: World War II, desertion, national socialism and resistance against. Contact: jascha.maerz[at]gmx.de.

Ingo Materna

Prof. Dr., geb. 1932. Historiker, 1981-1997 Lehrstuhlinhaber für Territorialgeschichte Berlin- Brandenburg an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Arbeitsschwerpunkte: frühe Sozialdemokratie, Novemberrevolution 1918, Brandenburgische Geschichte.

Thorsten Pomian

M. A., born in 1972. Research associate at the chair of History and Cultures of Eastern Europe and Russia, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany. Research fields:

Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union, national minorities in the Soviet Union, history of sports in Eastern Europe and Russia. Contact: Thorsten.Pomian[at]phil-fak.uni- duesseldorf.de.

Jeannette Prochnow

M.A., Sociologist and Cultural Anthropologist. Graduated from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, currently a PhD candidate and scholarship holder at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology under the supervision of sociologist Prof. Jörg Bergmann.

Contact: jeannette.prochnow[at]uni-bielefeld.de.

Werner Röhr

Prof. Dr., Historiker, Berlin. Herausgeber des Bulletins für Faschismus- und Weltkriegsforschung. Letzte Publikation: „Vom Annaberg nach Gleiwitz. Zur Vorgeschichte des deutschen Überfalls auf Polen am 1. September 1939“ (Berlin 2009). Kontakt:

info[at]edition-organon.de.

Uwe Sonnenberg

M.A., geb. 1976, schreibt am Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam seine Promotionsarbeit zur Geschichte der westdeutschen Linken und ihres Buchhandels. Seine wichtigste Veröffentlichung: Die Kopelewsche Brücke – Ein Problemaufriß zum öffentlichen Wirken von Lew Kopelew in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1981-1997 (Berlin, 2007).

Kontakt: Uwe.Sonnenberg[at]web.de.

Štěpán Steiger

LLd, born 1922. Retired. Reserach fields: international relations, international economy.

Author of numerous articles for Czech weeklies and online magazines. Contact:

steiger2001[at]centrum.cz.