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    “Away from Moscow”: a battle against provincialism in Soviet Ukrainian literature
    Peripheral Histories
    • Dec 11, 2017
    • 8 min

    “Away from Moscow”: a battle against provincialism in Soviet Ukrainian literature

    Olena Palko In March 1924, a Moscow best-selling author Boris Pil’niak was invited to a literary evening in Kharkiv. Pil’niak was...
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    Remembrance of World War II in Russia and Kyrgyzstan
    Peripheral Histories
    • Nov 14, 2017
    • 5 min

    Remembrance of World War II in Russia and Kyrgyzstan

    Vicky Davis Exactly a year ago, a new war film hit Russian cinema screens. Dvatsat’ vosem’ panfilovtsev (Panfilov’s 28) tells the story...
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    "Bridging Central Asian and Caucasus Area Studies” at the ESCAS-CESS Regional Conference in Bishkek,
    Peripheral Histories
    • Sep 25, 2017
    • 4 min

    "Bridging Central Asian and Caucasus Area Studies” at the ESCAS-CESS Regional Conference in Bishkek,

    Timothy Blauvelt, Ilia State University and American Councils for International Education, Tbilisi, Georgia Central Asia and the Caucasus...
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    Peripheral Histories
    • Jul 18, 2017
    • 3 min

    The Life and Works of Harold Karlovich Belger

    G. S. Zhugenbaeva The creative legacy of Harold Karlovich Belger (1934-2015), social and political actor and literary translator,...
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    The Cycle of Violence: The Uprising of 1916 in Semirechye
    Peripheral Histories
    • Jun 27, 2017
    • 6 min

    The Cycle of Violence: The Uprising of 1916 in Semirechye

    Aminat Chokobaeva In August 1916, the native nomads [1] of Semirechye rose in a popular rebellion that for weeks reduced the colonial...
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    Unplaced and Unwelcome: A Story of the Yiddish School in the Ukrainian Shtetl
    Peripheral Histories
    • Jun 7, 2017
    • 4 min

    Unplaced and Unwelcome: A Story of the Yiddish School in the Ukrainian Shtetl

    Maryna Batsman In 1917, the Russian Empire collapsed. The Bolsheviks began to reform nearly every aspect of pre-revolutionary life. The...
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    Russian, Little Russian, Hardly Russian
    Peripheral Histories
    • May 31, 2017
    • 4 min

    Russian, Little Russian, Hardly Russian

    Russian, Little Russian, Hardly Russian: Cossack Colonists and the Ambiguities of Belonging in the North Caucasus Oleksandr Polianichev...
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    Refraining from ‘periphery’
    Peripheral Histories
    • May 24, 2017
    • 4 min

    Refraining from ‘periphery’

    Refraining from ‘periphery’: The first German handbook of Polish history, the concept of the ‘civilizing mission’ and its transfer to...
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    Two documented attempts at creating Italian agricultural colonies in Novorossiia
    Peripheral Histories
    • May 12, 2017
    • 9 min

    Two documented attempts at creating Italian agricultural colonies in Novorossiia

    Heloisa Rojas Gomez At the southern peripheries of the expanding Russian Empire in the late 18th century, a mixed population of...
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    Politicising History in Ukraine and Belarus: An Interview with Dr Per Anders Rudling
    Peripheral Histories
    • May 5, 2017
    • 5 min

    Politicising History in Ukraine and Belarus: An Interview with Dr Per Anders Rudling

    Yuexin Rachel Lin Dr Per Anders Rudling is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of History at the National University of Singapore...
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    Arkhangelsk and Murmansk: Revolutionary Russian and British Imperial Periphery
    Peripheral Histories
    • Apr 19, 2017
    • 6 min

    Arkhangelsk and Murmansk: Revolutionary Russian and British Imperial Periphery

    Steven Balbirnie Russia’s outlying regions during the revolutionary period can be considered peripheries in more ways than one. My...
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    The Formation of the Russian Émigré Community in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s
    Peripheral Histories
    • Apr 10, 2017
    • 6 min

    The Formation of the Russian Émigré Community in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s

    Liao Zhang The late 1910s and 1920s saw an exodus of Russians from Russia, primarily caused by the Revolutions and the resultant...
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    The February Revolution: A Reassessment from the Periphery
    Peripheral Histories
    • Feb 28, 2017
    • 8 min

    The February Revolution: A Reassessment from the Periphery

    Dakota Irvin As the centenary of Russia’s February Revolution approaches, there has been a tremendous surge in academic and popular...
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    Peripheral Actors, Central Concerns: Observing the Russian Revolution
    Peripheral Histories
    • Feb 7, 2017
    • 7 min

    Peripheral Actors, Central Concerns: Observing the Russian Revolution

    Griffin B. Creech Though this blog has focused on the “peripheral” history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in a literal sense,...
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    Venereal Disease and Migration on the Russian Empire's Western Periphery
    Peripheral Histories
    • Jan 30, 2017
    • 4 min

    Venereal Disease and Migration on the Russian Empire's Western Periphery

    Siobhan Hearne In 1906, sailors at the Port of Emperor Alexander III in the Baltic town of Libava (now Liepāja in western Latvia) had the...
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    The Soviet Union and where to find it: social discourses about Soviet symbols in Lithuania
    Peripheral Histories
    • Jan 22, 2017
    • 5 min

    The Soviet Union and where to find it: social discourses about Soviet symbols in Lithuania

    Eglė Kesylytė-Alliks On the 11 March 2017 Lithuania will be counting 27 years since the declaration of its independence from the Soviet...
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    In conversation with Prof. Aleksandrs Ivanovs about History in and of borderlands
    Peripheral Histories
    • Jan 14, 2017
    • 6 min

    In conversation with Prof. Aleksandrs Ivanovs about History in and of borderlands

    Catherine Gibson Latgale (Latgalian: Latgola; Russian: Latgalia) is the name of a region in today’s eastern Latvia, which borders Russia...
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    The Centre-Periphery Relationship during Khrushchev’s Thaw: The View from Latvia
    Peripheral Histories
    • Jan 7, 2017
    • 7 min

    The Centre-Periphery Relationship during Khrushchev’s Thaw: The View from Latvia

    Michael Loader During the 1950s, a faction developed within the Latvian Communist Party (LCP). These were the so-called ‘national...
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