Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Julie Fedor is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.

Dr. Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu.

Dr. Gergana Dimova is a Lecturer in Politics at the London Study Centre of Florida State University. She obtained her MA and PhD from Harvard University, and was subsequently a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, a Research Associate at the University of Oxford and an associated Lecturer at the University of Winchester. Dimova serves as a commissioning co-editor of Cambridge University Press’s book series “Elements in Politics and Society,” associate editor of the journal Democratic Theory, and convenor of the Politics and Anti-Politics Specialist Group of the UK’s Political Science Association. Dimova is the author of Democracy beyond Elections (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). Her articles have been published in, among other journals, Demokratizatsiya, Democratic Theory, Comparative Political Theory, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, CEU Political Science Journal, Global Media Journal, and Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.

Rory Finnin is University Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Ukrainian Studies and Founding Director of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme at the University of Cambridge.

Ivan Kozachenko is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the project “Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies,” which is based at the University of Cambridge and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Yuliya Yurchuk is Associate Professor of History of Ideas at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. She specializes in memory studies, history of religion, and the study of nationalism in East European countries. She is the author of the book Reordering of Meaningful Worlds: Memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Post-Soviet Ukraine (Acta 2014) and one of the editors of Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective (Routledge, 2022, co-edited with Zuzanna Bogumil). Together with Julie Fedor and Andreas Umland she was a co-editor of the series of special issues of Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society dedicated to the memory and history of the OUN and UPA. Currently she is working on two research projects: one in the field of the transnational intellectual women’s history (funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies) and another in the field of cultural heritage in the context of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war (funded by the Jean Monnet EU Program). Her interests continue to be memory, knowledge production, imperialism, decolonization, and securitization of the past.