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Romain Ducoulombier
Docteur et agrégé d'histoire, chercheur associé au Centre de Recherche Universitaire
Lorrain d'Histoire (CRULH) de l'université de Metz, enseignant, auteur d'une thèse (IEP de
Paris, 2007) Régénérer le socialisme. Aux origines du communisme en France, qui sera
publiée chez Perrin en 2010. Contact: romain.ducoulombier[at]gmail.com,
Ulrich Eumann
PhD, born in 1960, works since 2008 as Research fellow in the project “Opposition
and Resistance against the Nazi Regime in Cologne, 1933-45“ of the Center for the
Documentation of National Socialism in Cologne. Research fields: working class
movement in the Weimar Republic, Communism, National Socialism and resistance
against, social network analysis. Contact: ulrich.eumann[at]t-online.de,
Jens Gieseke
Dr. phil., born in 1964. Senior researcher at the Center of Contemporary History, Potsdam,
Germany. Research fields: History of Communist East Germany, history of secret polices in
Communist countries. Recent publication: Handbuch der kommunistischen Geheimdienste in
Osteuropa 1944-1991, Göttingen 2008 (Co-editor, with Krzysztof Persak and Łukasz
Kamiński). Contact: gieseke[at]zzf-pdm.de,
Alexis Hofmeister
PhD, born in 1973. Assistant Professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne,
Germany, Department of East European History. Research fields: Jewish Autobiography,
Knowledge History of Ethnography. Monograph: Selbstorganisation und Bürgerlichkeit.
Jüdisches Vereinswesen in Odessa um 1900, Göttingen 2007 [Self-Organization and
Bourgeois Culture. Jewish Sociability in Odessa around 1900]. Contact:
alexis.hofmeister[at]uni-koeln.de,
Ralph Hug
Studied philosophy and German literature at the University of Zurich and works as a
journalist and publisher in St. Gallen/Switzerland. He has published numerous articles on the
Spanish Civil War and is author of “St.Gallen-Moskau-Aragón. Das Leben des
Spanienkämpfers Walter Wagner” (2007) as well as co-author together with Peter Huber of
“Die Schweizer Spanienfreiwilligen. Biografisches Handbuch” (2009). He is also founder of
the Interessengemeinschaft Spanienfreiwillige who achieved the political rehabilitation of the
Swiss Interbrigadists in 2009. Contact: hug[at]pressebuero-sg.ch,
Christoph Kapp
M.A., geb. 1977, ist Stipendiat des Graduiertenkollegs Walther Rathenau (Potsdam) und
promoviert über Leben und Wirken des Publizisten Walter Boehlich. Kontakt:
christophkapp[at]freenet.de,
Lazar Kheifets
Doctór Titular en História por el Instituto de Latinoamérica de la Academía de Ciencias de
Rusia. Profesor titular de la Universidad Estatal de San Petersburgo, investigador del
Instituto de Latinoamérica de la ACR, profesor catedrático del Instituto Regional
Leningradense de Economía y Finanzas. Miembro del Advisory Board del “International
Newsletter of Communist Studies” (Alemania). Una de las vertientes de su trabajo
académico durante más de 35 años ha sido el rescate de archivos relacionados con la
historia de la izquierda latinoamericana y el análisis posterior de su desarrollo histórico.
Durante varios años revisó los fondos del Archivo Estatal Ruso de Historia Social y Política,