1. Andrea Graziosi is a professor of modern history at the University of Naples.
2. Joshua Rubenstein is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, and for many years was northeast regional director for Amnesty International USA.
3. Roman Szporluk is Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History (emeritus) at Harvard University.
4. Paul Hollander is a professor of sociology (emeritus) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
5. Jeffrey Hardy is an assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University.
6. Michael Ellman is a professor of economic systems and chair of the department of business studies at the University of Amsterdam.
7. Jeffrey Rossman is an associate professor of history and director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Virginia.
8. Norman Naimark is the Robert and Florence McDonnel Professor of Eastern European Studies and a professor of history at Stanford University.