Junya Takiguchi is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Ryukoku University (Kyoto, Japan). He received his PhD (in History) from the University of Manchester (UK) in March 2009. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Slavic Research Center (now the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center) at Hokkaido University (Japan) from May 2010 to March 2012 before joining Ryukoku University in April 2012 (as a Lecturer and then an as an Associate Professor in April 2016). He has worked on the history of the Soviet Communist Party, of the British Communist Party and of the Communist International. His recent publications in English include: “The Organizational Management of the Tenth Congress”, in Clayton Black and Alexis Pogorelskin (eds.), Congress of Contradictions: The Tenth Party Congress, March 1921 (De Gruyter-Brill, 2025); “Stalinist Political Spectacle and the Defeat of the Opposition: The Fifteenth Congress of the Bolshevik Party in 1927”, History (The Journal of the Historical Association), vol.108, nos. 379–380, 2023, pp. 108–130; “Spreading the Revolution, Assembling Information and Making Revolutionaries: The Bolshevik Party Congress, 1977- 22” in Christopher Read et al. (eds.), Russia’s Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914–22 (Book 4): Reintegration - the Struggle for the State (Slavica Publishers, 2018), pp. 425–444.