Daria A. Arincheva is an Associate Professor of Chinese studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. She has published over 15 scholarly works including Chinese Revolutionaries in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and the 1930s (2015) and Lives and Fates of the First Chinese Communists (2021).

Alexander V. Pantsov is a Professor of History and the holder of the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He has published over 150 scholarly works including The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927 (2000), Mao Zedong: The Real Story (2012), Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life (2015), Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives (2021), and Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China: 1887-1975 (2023).

Steven I. Levine is a Senior Fellow at the Maureen & Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana, USA. He is a retired professor of Chinese history and politics. He has translated from Russian several previous books by Alexander V. Pantsov, including biographies of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Chiang Kai-shek.