Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
States as Bastions of Memory: Lessons from the Talysh Case
Karli Storm-Närväinen Even the most democratic of aspiring nation-states can be likened to bastions of memory, particularly when...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Oct 2
- 9 min
Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism
Author interview with Fabian Baumann Fabian Baumann's recently published book, Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jul 12
- 9 min
The Periphery's Civil War: Memory, Monuments and Battlefields in Karelia
Alexander Osipov The confrontation between the Reds and the Whites was the main plot of the Civil War in Russia, although a comprehensive...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jul 5
- 7 min
The ICRC Archive and Library
How can the history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union be studied through international organisations? For our archives and libraries...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jun 28
- 4 min
The British Library
We continue our archives and libraries series with a conversation with Katie McElvanney, a Slavonic and East European Curator at the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jun 21
- 9 min
Archives in Moldova
For the next instalment of our archives and libraries series, we spoke to Igor Cașu, head of the National Archives Agency in Moldova....
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jun 14
- 10 min
Georgian archives and libraries
For our archives and libraries series, Peripheral Histories? editor Siobhán Hearne spoke to Anton Vatcharadze, Shorena Osipova, and...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jun 8
- 3 min
The National Archives of Estonia
For the second post our of archives and libraries series, Peripheral Histories? editor Catherine Gibson spoke with Sven Lepa from the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- May 31
- 5 min
The University of Illinois Slavic Reference Service
Our latest Peripheral Histories? series is all about the places that are essential for researching histories of Eastern Europe and...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- May 12
- 7 min
'Nomadic Archaeology': Mobility, Modernity, and Primitivism in the Russian Empire and Early USSR
Ismael Biyashev In a now-classic introduction to The End of Nomadism (1999), David Sneath and Caroline Humphrey proclaim that “the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Apr 3
- 8 min
Mapmakers in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire
For the final instalment of our Baltic series, we turn to Peripheral Histories? editor Catherine Gibson for insight into the visual and...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Mar 27
- 15 min
A Letter to “Brothers in Faith”: Attempts at Jewish Emigration from Nazi Germany to Riga
Philipp Dinkelaker and Paula Oppermann “Due to political and economic circumstances, I would like to emigrate from Germany”,[1] wrote...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Mar 20
- 9 min
Interwar transnational authoritarianism and the case of “social solidarity”
Liisi Veski On 12 March 1934, the head of state of Estonia, Konstantin Päts, together with Johan Laidoner, the newly appointed...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Mar 13
- 6 min
The Politics of Uncertainty: the US, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Author interview with Una Bergmane Una Bergmane’s new book The Politics of Uncertainty: the US, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Feb 21
- 8 min
The “Little Girl with Sword”, or how easily we forget when memory objects lose their memory
Olga Stefan As a researcher and the initiator of the platform The Future of Memory, I focus my activities on rediscovering forgotten or...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jan 5
- 8 min
Korenizatsiya and The Curious Case of the Railways
Arthur McFarlane Many of Stalin’s subjects dreamt of becoming railway workers as the industry offered material benefits and rapid upward...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Nov 22, 2022
- 6 min
Creating a Pandora’s Box: The Soviet Search for National Borders
Author Interview with Stephan Rindlisbacher Stephan Rindlisbacher's book project Creating a Pandora’s Box: The Soviet Search for National...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Nov 9, 2022
- 7 min
Between Earthquakes and Mashrabiya: 'Indigenizing' Prefab Housing in Post-Stalinist Kyrgyzstan
David Leupold It is the year 1962. Towering construction cranes stand in the dust of the Central Asian steppe under the scorching midday...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
Series Conclusion: Diversity, ethnicity, and mobility in modern Central Asia
Alun Thomas It’s often remarked that academic interest in the history of Central Asia from outside of the region has surged in the past...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Aug 17, 2022
- 6 min
The moneylenders of Tashkent – informal economy, cross-border ties, and Tsarist controls
Roman Osharov Would you take out a loan at 120 percent per annum? In colonial Tashkent, Central Asia's largest and richest city in the...
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