STEPHEN F. COHEN is Professor Emeritus of Politics and Russian
Studies at Princeton University and Professor Emeritus of Russian
Studies and History at New York University. He is the author of a
number of widely acclaimed books on Russia, including Bukharin and
the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography; Rethinking the
Soviet Experience; and most recently Soviet Fates and Lost Lives:
From Stalinism to the New Cold War. His new book Why the Cold War
Again? will be published later this year. Cohen is also a
contributoring editor to The Nation magazine and his articles have
appeared worldwide.
VLADIMIR POZNER is a veteran journalist and bestselling author. He
is the host of the top-rated weekly current affairs program on
Channel One — Russia’s largest TV network. Named the “Voice of
Moscow” by CNN, he is a regular commentator on Russia and the Cold
War in Western media. He is also the author of a number of
bestselling books, including Parting with Illusions and Eyewitness:
A Personal Account of the Unravelling of the Soviet Union. Pozner
has won multiple awards, including three Emmy certificates and nine
TEFY awards.
ANNE APPLEBAUM is a journalist and leading expert on Russia. She
was a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post between
2002 and 2006 and her writing has appeared in the New Yorker and
the New Republic, among others, and she is the author of several
books about central and eastern Europe, including Gulag: A History,
which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. Her foreign
affairs column appears biweekly in the Washington Post and Slate,
and is syndicated around the world. Applebaum is currently the
director of the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute.
GARRY KASPAROV came to international fame as the youngest chess
champion ever in 1985 at the age of twenty-two. He broke Bobby
Fischer’s rating record in 1990 and his own peak rating record
remained unbroken until 2013. He retired from competitive chess in
2005 to join the vanguard of the Russian pro-democracy movement,
and founded the United Civil Front, and organized the Marches of
Dissent to protest the repressive policies of Vladimir Putin.
Kasparov has been a contributing editor to the Wall Street Journal
since 1991 and is a frequent commentator on politics and human
rights.
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