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“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...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Dec 11, 20178 min read
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...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Nov 14, 20175 min read
"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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Sep 25, 20174 min read
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,...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jul 18, 20173 min read
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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Jun 27, 20176 min read
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...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jun 7, 20174 min read
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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May 31, 20174 min read
Refraining from ‘periphery’
Refraining from ‘periphery’: The first German handbook of Polish history, the concept of the ‘civilizing mission’ and its transfer to...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
May 24, 20174 min read
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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May 12, 20179 min read
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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May 5, 20175 min read
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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Apr 19, 20176 min read
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...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Apr 10, 20176 min read
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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Feb 28, 20178 min read
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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Feb 7, 20177 min read
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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Jan 30, 20174 min read
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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Jan 22, 20175 min read
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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Jan 14, 20176 min read
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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Jan 7, 20177 min read
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