Jonathan Brent is Editorial Director of Yale University Press and founder of the widely praised `Annals of Communism' series. His publication of The Secret World of American Communism (1994) led to the release of classified Second World War information by the CIA and the FBI. He contributes widely to journals and magazines, including the New York Times Book Review. He is currently at work on a biography of Isaac Babel and a novel about the new Russia.
Vladimir P Naumov is an Emeritus Professor of History and the leading researcher for the Presidential Commission on the Rehabilitation of Repressed Persons. He is the author of numerous articles on the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s and is co-editor of The Assassination of Sergei Kirov, The Unjust Trial and The Shvernik Report, three works scheduled to appear in the `Annals of Communism' series.