Aleksandr Korobeinikov The Russian revolution of 1917 marked a turning point in Russian imperial and world history. Explanations of this...

Pietro A. Shakarian Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw represented a major period of historical change for the Soviet Union, a period that included...

In this post, Timothy K. Blauvelt reflects on writing his new book, Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of...

Author interview with Artemy M. Kalinovsky Artemy M. Kalinovsky's important book, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics...

Tyson Luneau “…this immense sea, a sea reaching to the horizon, a blue sea crisscrossed by the flights of birds…A dream: Lake Baikal,...

Author interview with Faith Hillis Faith Hillis's recently published Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom,...

Mikko Toivanen “Gusev was looking at the little window and was not listening. A boat was swaying on the transparent, soft, turquoise...

Andrew Straw This post underlines the NKVD’s confusion and chauvinism directed towards Tatars- one of the largest ethnic groups in the...

Author interview with Siobhán Hearne Siobhán Hearne’s recently published Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late...

Diego Repenning The theme of ‘brain-drain’ has been an issue the Russian Federation has dealt with for a long time. After the fall of the...

Marcus James Father Alexander (Zarkasheev), current priest of the Russian Orthodox Church of St Nicholas conducting prayers in the...

Christine Grant In a sand-floored forest not far from the Ukrainian town of Poltava, an icon of Stalinist pedagogy was born. The Gorky...

Sergey Salushchev Towering over the crossroads between Europe and Asia, the snow-capped tops of the Caucasus mountains stand as silent...

Nick Hall My work looks at British travellers in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The decade saw many thousands of foreigners visiting the...

Alison Ruth Kolosova During a break from working in the State Historical Archive of the Chuvash Republic, I walked out across the new...

Stefan Applis Located at the head of the Enguri gorge in Svaneti in western Georgia, the village community of Ushguli represents a...

Prajakti Kalra Modern day Central Asian countries, namely Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have...

On 11th December 2020 we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Erica Marat and Dr Edward Lemon from the Oxus Society for Central Asian...

Emanuela Grama “I don’t remember having seen this file before,” the archivist told me when he returned from the stacks to the reading...

Frankee Lyons While working in the reading room at the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw, Poland one rainy March day, I noticed...