Biographical note

NIKICA BARI? Research Associate, the Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb, Croatia JOVAN BYFORD Lecturer in Psychology, the Open University, UK MARKO ATTILA HOARE Senior Research Fellow, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London, UK MARIO JAREB Research Associate, the Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb, Croatia PÅL KOLSTØ Professor of Russian and East European Studies, the University of Oslo, Norway SLADJANA LAZI? Doctoral Student, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway OLA LISTHAUG Professor of Political Science, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway OLGA MANOJLOVI? PINTAR Research Fellow, the Institute for Contemporary History of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia SABRINA P.RAMET Professor of Political Science, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway SABINE RUTAR Managing Editor of the journal Südosteuropa. A Journal for Politics and SocietyDUBRAVKA STOJANOVI? Associate Professor of History, the University of Belgrade, Serbia KRISZTIÁN UNGVÁRY Researcher at the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest, Hungary.