Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor Emerita at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She is the author of 16 scholarly books, including East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 and editor or co-editor of 42 scholarly books.

Lavinia Stan is the European Research Area (ERA) Chair and Professor at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. She is author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of numerous previous books, among them Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from 25 Years of Experience.