Lara Douds is Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in History at Northumbria University, UK. She is the author of Inside Lenin's Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
James Harris is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s (2016) and The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System (1999). He has edited multiple volumes on Russian History, including The Anatomy of Terror: Political Violence under Stalin (2013) and Stalin's World: Dictating the Soviet Order (2014, co-edited with Sarah Davies).
Peter Whitewood is Senior Lecturer of History at York St. John University, UK. He is the author of The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military (2015).
