Olena Palko In March 1924, a Moscow best-selling author Boris Pil’niak was invited to a literary evening in Kharkiv. Pil’niak was well-known in Ukraine. His ...

Vicky Davis Exactly a year ago, a new war film hit Russian cinema screens. Dvatsat’ vosem’ panfilovtsev (Panfilov’s 28) tells the story of a handful of outnu...

Timothy Blauvelt, Ilia State University and American Councils for International Education, Tbilisi, Georgia Central Asia and the Caucasus share much in commo...

Aminat Chokobaeva In August 1916, the native nomads [1] of Semirechye rose in a popular rebellion that for weeks reduced the colonial presence in the region ...

Maryna Batsman In 1917, the Russian Empire collapsed. The Bolsheviks began to reform nearly every aspect of pre-revolutionary life. The Jewish community rec...

Russian, Little Russian, Hardly Russian: Cossack Colonists and the Ambiguities of Belonging in the North Caucasus Oleksandr Polianichev Since the mid-1990s, ...

Refraining from ‘periphery’: The first German handbook of Polish history, the concept of the ‘civilizing mission’ and its transfer to 19th-century Polish his...

Heloisa Rojas Gomez At the southern peripheries of the expanding Russian Empire in the late 18th century, a mixed population of foreigners began to settle. D...

Yuexin Rachel Lin Dr Per Anders Rudling is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of History at the National University of Singapore and an associate pro...

A century ago, the events that would later become known as the Russian Revolution were well underway. Street protests, generated in part from breadlines and ...

Steven Balbirnie Russia’s outlying regions during the revolutionary period can be considered peripheries in more ways than one. My research explores Northern...

Liao Zhang The late 1910s and 1920s saw an exodus of Russians from Russia, primarily caused by the Revolutions and the resultant political and societal turbu...

Dakota Irvin As the centenary of Russia’s February Revolution approaches, there has been a tremendous surge in academic and popular activity and analysis, ru...

Griffin B. Creech Though this blog has focused on the “peripheral” history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in a literal sense, I seek to add to th...

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 highest rates of ve...

Eglė Kesylytė-Alliks On the 11 March 2017 Lithuania will be counting 27 years since the declaration of its independence from the Soviet Union. This period pr...

Catherine Gibson Latgale (Latgalian: Latgola; Russian: Latgalia) is the name of a region in today’s eastern Latvia, which borders Russia to the east and Bela...

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