SlavomĂr Michálek is director of the Institute of History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He is author or editor of, among other books, San Francisco 1945 (2015), Gustáv Husák (2013), 20 rokov samostatnej Slovenskej republiky (20 Years of Independent Slovakia, 2013), Za hranicou sloboda (Behind the Border, there Is Freedom, 2013) and DubÄŤek (2018).
Michal Ĺ tefanskĂ˝ worked at the Institute of Military History in Bratislava as well as the Institutes of Political Science and History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In 1989, he was a member of the government commission for the historical analysis of the years 1967–1970. He is author of, among other books, Studená vojna a Slovensko 1946–1954/1955–1962 (The Cold War and Slovakia, 2008/2012) and KrĂzy reĹľimov sovietskeho bloku (The Crises of the Soviet Bloc Regimes, 2007).