Editors
Adela Hincu is an intellectual historian researching the history of Marxist social thought, social sciences and feminism in socialist Eastern Europe. She is currently conducting a Marie Curie postdoctoral project at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana.
Esa Purschke is a Berlin-based cultural historian and translator with interests in socialist internationalism, Soviet history, and Western European leftism. Next to Red Threads, Esa is active in Black Sheep Society and labor organizing across the US and Germany.
Matan Kaminer is an anthropologist and a lecturer at Queen Mary University London. An anti-occupation and migrant solidarity activist, he is the author of Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture, and a member of the boards of Academia for Equality and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Olena Lyubchenko is a PhD candidate at York University and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Rooted in the critique of political economy, her work examines the transformation of the Soviet Union, with a focus on social reproduction. She is affiliated with Alameda Institute and Black Sheep Society.
Rossen Djagalov teaches Soviet culture and left internationalism at New York University. He is the author of From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third World (2020) and of a forthcoming book on multinational Soviet literature. He is active in the Black Sheep Society, BASIS, DSA, and AAUP.
Sona Baldrian is an emerging scholar based in Yerevan, Armenia. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender and political economy, with particular attention to the ways in which disorganized economic restructuring and processes of political abandonment shape women’s social citizenship in postsocialist Armenia.
Volodymyr Ishchenko is a Ukrainian sociologist, currently at Freie Universität Berlin. He studied protests, revolutions, right and left radicalism, nationalism, and civil society. He contributed to The Guardian, Al Jazeera, New Left Review, and Jacobin. He authored Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War (Verso, 2024).
Zach Hicks is a doctoral candidate at University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include the cultural production of the former Second World, critical theory, and the critique of political economy. He is a member of the editorial collective of Long-Haul Magazine and active with Black Sheep Society.
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