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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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Mar 13, 20236 min read
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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Feb 21, 20238 min read
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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Jan 5, 20238 min read
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...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Nov 22, 20226 min read
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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Nov 9, 20227 min read
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...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Aug 31, 20222 min read
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...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Aug 17, 20226 min read
Writing a Multiethnic History of the Kazakh Famine
This blog post discusses some upsetting themes. Mehmet Volkan Kasikci In the early 1930s, millions of people starved to death across the...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Aug 12, 20226 min read
Researching Displacement in Central Asia: A Reflection on the Use of Sources
Hanna Matt Drawing on my dissertation research on displacement and famine in Central Asia, this blog post will reflect on the...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jul 25, 20226 min read
The Last Emir of Bukhara in Exile Across the Border
Malika Zehni “… While the people of Bokhara were asleep… They set fire to the city and threw bombs from aeroplanes,” read the opening...
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Jul 14, 20227 min read
Memories of Deportation - From the Russian Far East to Central Asia
Mira Kuzhakhmetova The first migrations of Koreans to the Russian Far East were recorded in the second half of the nineteenth century....
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Jun 29, 20225 min read
Geographic Information System (GIS) and Central Asian History
Akira Ueda What is Historical GIS? Geographic Information System (GIS) is a category of computer software that visualises, integrates,...
Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jun 23, 20227 min read
Poland’s rediscovered East Europeanness
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused a remarkable shift in Poles’ mental maps. The line dividing the East...
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May 30, 20227 min read
The Tourist Periphery: Russia’s Golden Ring Cities
James C. Pearce First a motoring route during the late Soviet era, The Golden Ring got its name from journalist Yuri Bychkov. Asked to...
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May 13, 20228 min read
“Bessarabia is Romania!”
Grant T. Harward “Bessarabia is Romania!” This slogan, and variations of it, is spray-painted and plastered across Romania. Bessarabia...
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Mar 28, 20225 min read
Kola Contested: Early Modern Russo-Danish Sovereignty in the Arctic
Earl Joshua Hodil Maps are invaluable instruments in the historian’s toolbox, offering visual representations of historical phenomena....
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Dec 14, 20217 min read
Non-Russian Intellectuals of Siberia: Regionalism & the Transformation of the Russian Empire
Aleksandr Korobeinikov The Russian revolution of 1917 marked a turning point in Russian imperial and world history. Explanations of this...
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Dec 1, 20219 min read
Yerevan 1954: Anastas Mikoyan and Nationality Reform in the Thaw, 1954–1964
Pietro A. Shakarian Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw represented a major period of historical change for the Soviet Union, a period that included...
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Nov 12, 202113 min read
Researching Informal Politics in the Early Soviet Periphery
In this post, Timothy K. Blauvelt reflects on writing his new book, Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of...
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Oct 25, 20217 min read
Laboratory of Socialist Development - Decolonization and economic development in the Tajik SSR
Author interview with Artemy M. Kalinovsky Artemy M. Kalinovsky's important book, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics...
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Oct 11, 20217 min read
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