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Migration as Protest and Nostalgia: The Doukhobors’ Attempted Return to Soviet Union in the 1920s
Victoria Peretitskaya As religious dissenters, the Doukhobors, a pacifist Christian sect dating back to the eighteenth century, endured...
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3 days ago10 min read
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In Pursuit of Home: The History of Old Believers’ Resettlement in Alaska
Aglaia Gulakova These remaining Old Believers must be seen – their strength, their conviction, their selfless nightly prayers (no longer...
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Jun 211 min read
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Singing Central Asia: Uncovering Kazakh and Uzbek Estrada
Leora Eisenberg It would have been absurd if it wasn’t quite so sincere: at least seven Kazakhstani composers sitting in a conference...
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May 15 min read
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“Our Real Chances of Survival”: Estonian Democrats between the Nazis and the Allies
Kristo Nurmis “Ready to Die for Liberty: Tiny Estonia to Declare War on USSR as well as on Reich.” So proclaimed The Boston Globe in July...
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Apr 19 min read
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Overlooked Topics and Seeking Recognition: The Changing Representations of Soviet Deportations in Estonian Cinema
Hanna Maria Aunin In January 1988, the editorial board of the Tallinnfilm studio signed a contract with Rein Saluri for a feature film...
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Feb 128 min read
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Peripheral Sexualities? LGBT (Studies) in Estonia – a conversation with Rebeka Põldsam
As part of the series that discusses ‘peripheries’ in the Baltic states, Rasa Kamarauskaitė (RK) of the BASEES Study Group on the Baltic...
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Feb 37 min read
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A Banned Christmas?: Keeping Tradition in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Underground
Kateryna Budz One of the most popular Ukrainian carols is ‘Nova Radist’ Stala’ (‘A New Joy has Come’), which tells the story of the birth...
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Jan 287 min read
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Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal
It is no secret that the Peripheral Histories? editorial team is comprised of a few historians of humanitarianism who are rather...
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Jan 910 min read
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National education and teaching history in interwar Estonian schools
Mann Loper The establishment of Estonia’s independent statehood in 1918 took the political and cultural freedom of Estonians to an...
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Dec 23, 202410 min read
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Giacomo Devoto, the Institute for Eastern Europe (IpEO), and the Advancement of Baltic Studies in Italy
Rosario Napolitano Establishing Baltic Studies in Interwar Italy In the aftermath of the First World War, the Western powers paid...
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Dec 17, 20248 min read
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Peripheral Sexualities? LGBT (Studies) in Lithuania – a conversation with Rasa Navickaitė
Rasa Kamarauskait ė (RK) As part of the series that discusses ‘periphery’ in the Baltic states, Lithuanian sexuality scholar Rasa...
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Dec 11, 20247 min read
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Breaking out of the Baltic Periphery?: The Global Ambitions of the Duchy of Courland in the Seventeenth Century
John Freeman The early modern eastern Baltic Sea has often been considered, with some criticism, a global periphery in comparison to the...
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Nov 28, 20249 min read
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Open Society Archives
For our special series on libraries and archives with collections easily accessible online, Peripheral Histories? editor Priska Komaromi...
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Nov 12, 20247 min read
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The Blavatnik Archive
To highlight another fantastic digital resource Peripheral Histories? editor Susan Grunewald spoke to the Blavatnik Archive , a...
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Nov 6, 20249 min read
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Leeds Russian Archive
As we expand our special series on libraries and archives to highlight collections that are easily accessible from the UK or online,...
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Oct 28, 20247 min read
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REESOURCES
Our archives and libraries series is back with new interviews related to digital primary source collections, as well as with archivists...
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Oct 22, 20248 min read
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Indifference to Monolith? Polish identity in the interwar eastern borderlands and the Polish community in post-war Britain
Josef Butler The 1951 UK census identified 162,339 Polish-born individuals settled permanently in Great Britain. [1] Of this cohort,...
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Sep 25, 20248 min read
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From Incarceration to Repatriation
Author Interview with Susan C. I. Grunewald Susan Grunewald’s recently published book From Incarceration to Repatriation (Cornell...
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Sep 11, 20247 min read
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Localising the Soviet in China: Industrial Development Beyond Centralised Models
Karina Khasnulina At the beginning of the First Five Year Plan in China, Mao Zedong said: ‘What can we make at present? We can make...
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Jun 3, 20249 min read
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Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union
Author interview with Vicky Davis Vicky Davis’ recently published book Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting...
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May 20, 202411 min read
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