Günter Bischof - The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

Csaba Bks is founding director of the Cold War History Research Center (www.coldwar.hu) and senior research fellow at the 1956 Institute, both in Budapest. His main fields of research are Cold War history, the history of East-West relations, Hungarys international relations after World War II, and the role of the East Central European states in the Cold War. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including The 1956 Hungarian Revolution:A History in Documents (with Malcolm Byrne and Jnos M. Rainer), and more than sixty major articles and chapters, and he has participated at some seventy international conferences. Bks was a visiting professor at New York University and at Columbia University. He is also a contributor of the forthcoming three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies and Cold War History.

Gnter Bischof is the Marshall Plan Professor of History and director of CenterAustria (www.centeraustria.org) at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of Austria in the First Cold War 194555 (1999). He is the editor (with Saki Ruth Dockrill) of Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955 (2000) and many other books and coeditor of Contemporary Austrian Studies (seventeen volumes). Bischof was a guest professor at the Universities of Munich, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and Louisiana State University and serves on many boards.

Alessandro Brogi is associate professor at the University of Arkansas. His principal area of research is U.S. strategic and cultural relations with Western Europe during the Cold War. He is the author of three books: LItalia e legemonia americana nel Mediterraneo (Acqui Storia prize runner up); A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 19441958; and Confronting Anti-Americanism: Americas Cold War against the French andItalian Communists (forthcoming). Brogi was also at Yale University as lecturer and John Olin Fellow in International Security Studies (19992002), visiting professor at Johns Hopkins Universitys School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center, Italy (2004), and research fellow at the Peace Nobel Institute of Oslo, Norway (2007).

Mark Carson received his Ph.D. in history from the Louisiana State University. His masters thesis, F. Edward Hebert and the Congressional Investigation of the Vietnam War was published in Louisiana History. Carson was a guest lecturer at Loyola University and recently a visiting assistant professor at Tulane University. He is presently revising his dissertation, Beyond the Solid South: Southern Members of Congress and the Vietnam War and serves as an adjunct instructor at the University of New Orleans.

Saki Ruth Dockrill was a professor and chair of contemporary history and international security at Kings College, London. She was the author of many books and articles, including Eisenhowers New Look National Security Policy, 19511961; Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955 (with Gnter Bischof); and The End of the Cold War Era.

Aleksei Filitov is a historian at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the author of many articles concerning Soviet foreign policy, especially toward Germany.

Tvrtko Jakovina is associate professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is the author of Socijalizam na americkoj penici [Socialism on the American Grain] (2002) and Americki komunisticki saveznik: Hrvati, Titova Jugoslavija i Sjedinjene Americke Drave 19451955 [The American Communist Ally: Croats, Titos Yugoslavia and the United States, 19451955] (2003) and has written many articles dealing with the foreign policy of Titos Yugoslavia and Croatian history in twentieth century. Jakovina is vice president of the Croatian Fulbright Alumni Association, lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Zagreb, and guest-lecturer at Instituti per lEuropa centro-orientale e balcanica, University of Bologna-Forli. He served as a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.

Stefan Karner is the director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War-Consequences, Graz-Vienna-Klagenfurt (see http://www. bik.ac.at) and a professor and the deputy director of the Department of Economic, Social and Business History at the University of Graz. He is the chairman of the Austrian Part of the Austrian-Russian Commission of Historians, a member of the Czech-Austrian Commission of Historians, and a member of the editorial board of the Jahrbuch fr Historische Kommunismusforschung, Berlin. In 1995 he received the prestigious Austrian Scientist of the Year award. Karner is the author of more than twenty books, including Im Archipel GUPVI. Kriegsgefangenschaft und Internierung in der Sowjetunion19411956 [In the GUPVI Archipelago: Prisoners of War and Internees in the Soviet Union 19411956], coeditor of Die Rote Armee in sterreich.Sowjetische Besatzung 19451955 (2 volumes) [The Red Army in Austria: The Soviet Occupation 19451955], and the editor of several book series.

Harald Knoll is a senior fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War-Consequences, Graz. He has published on prisoners of war in the USSR during and after World War II, especially on Stalins legal persecution of POWs, on the Austrian resistance against the Nazi regime, and on espionage in the Soviet occupation zone in Austria (19451955).

Petr Kolr serves as the ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States. He was educated at Charles University in Prague and majored in information technology and library science and ethnography. He held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, the University of Londons Institute of Historical Research, and the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. He worked as a specialist at the Institute for Ethnography and Folklore Studies and the Research Center for Peace and Disarmament Issues, as well as a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History, all of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science; he also worked as a chief researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Defense and at the Institute for International Relations, both in Prague. Kolr joined the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the mid-1990s and served as director of the Department for Czechs Living Abroad and Nongovernmental Relations; director of the Eastern & Southern Europe Territorial Department, as well as foreign policy adviser to the foreign minister. He also served as an adviser for European Integration and the Balkans to Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic 19992003, and as Czech ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden and the Republic of Ireland, as well as a deputy minister of foreign affairs for bilateral relations.

Mark Kramer studied at Stanford and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. He has been a driving force in making new documents from former communist countries available through the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He is the director of the Davis Center for Cold War Studies, Harvard University (see http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/) and editor of the Journal of ColdWar Studies (MIT Press). He is the author of numerous articles and signal analyses on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Cold War.

Nikita Petrov is leader of the research program on Soviet security studies at Memorial Moscow (see http://www.memo.ru/eng/memhrc/index.shtml). He is author of various books on the NKVD/KGB, including