Marko Bojcun (B.A., M.Litt., Ph.D.) taught at York University in Toronto, University of London, London Metropolitan University, and New York University. He also worked as a journalist, researcher for documentary films, and leader of European Commission and British Foreign Office projects to foster research, organize student exchange, and train senior Ukrainian civil servants. Since 2014, he is a member of the London-based Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. Bojcun’s previous books include The Chernobyl Disaster (The Hogarth Press 1988, with Viktor Haynes), Ukraine and Europe: A Difficult Reunion (Kogan Page 2001), and the first volume in Ukrainian translation of The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 2017). The complete English edition will be published by Brill in 2020.

Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society”.