Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
The Tsar's Numbers: The Rise of Statistics in the Russian Empire
The problem of epistemology plagued the rulers of Russia as it plagues the historian today. How do we gather and assess knowledge about...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Sep 10, 2016
- 6 min
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: A Peripheral Borderland
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: A Peripheral Borderland: Perm’ Province Through the Eyes of Travel Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century Jonathan...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Sep 1, 2016
- 7 min
Research in Armenia: An interview with Shushan Ghazarian
Shushanik Ghazarian is a PhD student in cultural anthropology and researcher at the Institute of Ethnography and Archaeology at the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Aug 24, 2016
- 12 min
Roundtable Report: Doing Research in the South Caucasus
By Jo Laycock Doing Research in the South Caucasus The South Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan; Imperial and Soviet...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Aug 5, 2016
- 5 min
Imperial Russia and Armenian Refugees on the Caucasus Front of the Great War
Research in Progress: Imperial Russia and Armenian Refugees on the Caucasus Front of the Great War 1914-1917 By Asya Darbinian While...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jul 26, 2016
- 7 min
Ekaterinburg into Sverdlovsk: What's in a Name?
By Dakota Irvin I am writing my dissertation on the Russian Revolution and Civil War in the provinces, in particular the city of...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jul 20, 2016
- 5 min
Archival Bricolage
By Carrie Crockett Over the past few years, I have been researching Russia’s efforts to colonize Sakhalin during the 19th century. The...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jul 18, 2016
- 5 min
CONFERENCE REPORT: Russia's Failed Democratic Revolution, February-October 1917
CONFERENCE REPORT: Russia's Failed Democratic Revolution, February-October 1917: A Centenary Reappraisal March 11-12, 2016 Rome,...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jul 13, 2016
- 8 min
Interview: Donald J. Raleigh on a Career Studying the Russian Provinces
Donald J. Raleigh is the Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jul 5, 2016
- 8 min
Russian and Soviet Peripheries in the World
By Timothy Nunan Where was Russian and Soviet history? This question might seem to have a straightforward answer: within the borders of...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jun 30, 2016
- 6 min
‘Lost between enormous mountains’: Reconsidering the New Soviet Woman in the Cultural Periphery
By Hannah Parker The period of socialist construction that followed the Russian Revolutions entailed huge upheavals to the personal and...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jun 15, 2016
- 3 min
Researching Lower-Class Histories: the Benefits of the Regional Archive
Siobhan Hearne I am currently writing my PhD thesis on female prostitution in late-imperial urban Russia, and I am particularly...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jun 7, 2016
- 5 min
“A World Apart” – Soviet Children’s Homes as Social Periphery
By Mirjam Galley Хорошо у нас в школе! Afanasenko/Kairova (eds), Piat' let shkol-internatov (Moscow: Izdat APN RSFSR, 1961), p. 32. The...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- May 15, 2016
- 6 min
Siberia in 1917: Regionalism without Regionalists? (Part 1)
How local power structures related to the wider Russian state in 1917 is a question at the heart of English-language scholarship on the...
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