Zuzanna Bogumił is an assistant professor at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She specializes in memory studies, museum studies and anthropology of religion. Since 2006, Bogumił has worked on the memory of Soviet repressions, focusing on its secular, religious, postsecular and decolonial dimensions. Bogumił has authored, co-authored or co-edited several books. Tatiana Voronina is an independent researcher interested in the social and cultural history of the late Soviet Union, rural history, memory politics, religion and oral history. She holds PhDs in history from the European University in Saint Petersburg (2005) and the University of Zurich (2022), and she currently works on late Soviet culture. Voronina is the author of a monograph and has published a dozen articles in leading academic journals on Soviet memory, late Soviet temporalities, and urban and rural inequality.

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