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.

Håvard Bækken is professor of Russian Area Studies at the Norwegian Defence University College. His recent research focuses on patriotic education and militarized identity policy in Russia and he has published numerous articles on this topic. More recently, he has also done research on the situation in the occupied territories of Ukraine, with particular attention to Russia’s strategies and practices targeting children. Bækken is also the author of several publications on quasi-legal practices in Russia.