Robert Justin Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Oakland University in Michigan, USA, and Research Associate at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA. He specializes in the history of censorship and human rights in modern western democracies.Andrew M. Nedd teaches art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), USA. From 2004 to 2014, he served as the chair of the SCAD Art History Symposium. Nedd specializes in Russian art and in recent years travelled to China, where he published articles dealing with contemporary art of that country.