Miriam Dobson Editor & Author

Miriam Dobson is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. Her first book Khrushchev’s Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin was published in 2009 and she is currently completing a monograph, provisionally entitled Unorthodox Communities in the Cold War: Protestants, Secularisation, and Soviet Atheism, 1945–1985.

Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Sheffield. His most recent publications include Contested Commemorations: Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture (2013) and Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War: Killing, Dying, Surviving (2017).