RICHARD H. BAYERLEIN Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Cologne and Visiting Professor, University of Guadalajara and University of Bourgogne, Dijon MARY BUCKLEY Reader in Politics at the University of Edinburgh MARY SCHAEFFER CONROY Professor of Russian at the University of Colorado at Denver IRINA DAVIDIAN Research Fellow at the Institute of National Problems in Education, Moscow MIKHAIL M. GORINOV Research Fellow at the Moscow Union of Archives GABRIELE GORZKA Managing Director of the East-West Science Centre and Lecturer in East European History at Kassel University, Germany PETER HUBER Lecturer at the University of Basel JOHN KEEP Professor of Russian History at the University of Toronto (1970-88) ROBERT MAIER Research Fellow at the Brunswick Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Germany ALEXANDER RABINOWITCH Professor of History at Indiana University DONALD J. RALEIGH Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SUSAN Z. RUPP Assistant Professor of Russian History at Wake Forest University VIKTORIIA TIAZHEL'NIKOVA Research Fellow at the Moscow Union of Archives ALEKSANDR VATLIN Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Moscow State University and Vice-President of the Russian Association for Soviet Studies