Mark Pittaway was Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Open University, UK. His books include Globalization and Europe (2003), The Fluid Borders of Europe (2003) and the posthumous collection of essays, From the Vanguard to the Margins: Workers in Hungary, 1939 to the Present (2015), edited by Adam Fabry.Jill Massino is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. She is the co-editor, along with Shana Penn, of Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe (2009).
