L¿l¿ Borhi is Peter A. Kadas Associate Chair and Professor of Central European History at Indiana University and Scientific Counsellor of the Institute of History Center for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy. He is the author of Hungary in the Cold War, 1945¿1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union (2004) and the¿co-author and co-editor of Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary and Austria, 1944¿1948 (forthcoming). He is the recipient of the Gold Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (2006), the Zolt¿Bezer¿ Prize of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage of Hungary (2006), and the Gy¿rgy R¿i Prize of the Hungarian Historical Association (1995).

Translator Jason Vincz, a specialist in Anglo-American and Eastern European literature, holds degrees from Harvard College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University.