Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
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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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Jun 3
- 9 min
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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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- May 20
- 11 min
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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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- May 14
- 9 min
Author Interview Tyler C Kirk – After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North
Tyler C. Kirk is Associate Professor and the Arthur T. Fathauer Chair of History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Mar 25
- 8 min
Far Away but Never Powerless: Oral Histories of Estonian American Activists
Leah Johnson “We all grew up with the history of Estonia, the injustice of that history… what the Soviets did. And as I was growing up,...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Mar 8
- 10 min
Homosexuality, Nationalism, and Imperial Anxiety in the Early 20th Century Caucasus
Anna Efimova “Take my money and give me a kiss” In July 1913, two individuals of Azeri descent[1] residing in Tiflis disseminated an...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Mar 5
- 2 min
Open call to join the Peripheral Histories? editorial collective
Founded in 2016, the Peripheral Histories? blog and digital history project is a platform for spotlighting ongoing research on the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
- Nov 3, 2023
- 10 min
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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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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