The contributors are Manon de Courten, Megan Dixon, Halina Goldberg, Leonid Efremovich Gorizontov, Irina Grudzinska, Beth Holmgren, Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Matthew Pauly, Nina Perlina, Robert Przygrodski, David L. Ransel, Bozena Shallcross, Barbara Skinner, and Andrzej Walicki.
David L. Ransel is Robert F. Byrnes Professor of History and Director of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University.
Bozena Shallcross is Associate Professor of Polish Literature at the University of Chicago.