Hugh’s current research project covers the logistics of the Red Army during the inter-war period to the end of the Soviet-German War, the link between the national economy and the operational army, with the resultant impact on the army's mobility.

This project has been published in a series of papers in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies and Journal of the British Commission for Military History. During the pandemic, in lieu of conferences, some of this work was presented at the BCMH 'History goes on' portal in 2021. In addition, he is an active member of the Second World War Research Group and a member of BASEES.

George Gilbert is Lecturer in Modern Russian History at the University of Southampton. His publications include The Radical Right in late Imperial Russia (2016) and, as editor, Reading Russian Sources (2020). He has also contributed articles on aspects of the social, cultural and political history of the late Imperial period to leading journals such as The Russian Review, Kritika, and The Slavonic and East European Review.

Dr Olena Palko is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research interests lie in the field of early Soviet cultural history and the interwar history of Eastern Europe. She was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia in 2017 and has held research fellowships at Humboldt University (Berlin) and Basel University. Olena is a co-ordinator of a digital project, Shadows of Empire: contesting territorial imaginations and borders in modern Europe, conducted at the University of St. Gallen. Olena Palko is a co-convener of the BASEES Study Group for Minority History.

Her first book, Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) was awarded the Prize for the Best Book in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture (2019-20) from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. She is also a co-editor of an edited collection Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing Borders in Twentieth Century, forthcoming in McGill Queens University Press in the spring of 2022.

Sasha Rudan (Саша Рудан) is a researcher at Uppsala University architecting infrastructure for the Retracing Connections project doing research on hagiographic texts in Old Slavonic and other languages. He is completing his Ph.D. at the University in Oslo on the topic of collaborative face-to-virtual systems for augmenting social processes, knowledge management and dialogue. He held research positions at Umeå University and the Queen Mary University of London. He is part of the Prismatic Jane Eyre project at the University of Oxford, working on the close and distant reading of “Jane Eyre” with a focus on stylometric and comparative analyses of the novel’s South-Slavic and Russian translations.

Sasha founded and co-leads the LitTerra Foundation that digitally supports literature, writing, cultural heritage, and digitally under-supported, mainly South-Slavic, languages and dialects. It provides DH platforms for computational text analysis (http://litterra.net/bukvik), visualization and digital heritage (http://litterra.net/litterra), and cross-language corpora. In conjunction with ChaOS (http://cha-os.org), an NGO he co-founded, it enables him to organize projects involving researchers, writers, and artists in the domain of socially-engaged art, culture, and sustainability.

As such, he is interested in collaboration on DH platforms for South-Slavic languages and heritage, as well as in co-designing collaborative platforms and model/game-based workshops.

Andy Willimott is Associate Professor in Modern Russian History and Fellow of the Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. His books include the award-winning Living the Revolution: Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932 (Oxford University Press) and Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide: Tradition, Rupture, and Modernity (co-ed. with Matthias Neumann), (Routledge). His research has been funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK) and the Leverhulme Trust. He was also recipient of a British Academy Rising Star Award (2017-18). His current research project examines the myth, memory, and afterlife of the Paris Commune in revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union.