Erin Hutchinson In a 1980 article comparing the disciplines of history and anthropology, Bernard Cohn wrote, with a bit of a wink, that...

Chloe Wells Located on the Gulf of Finland 140km north-west from St. Petersburg and about 40km from Russia's border with Finland, the...

Mukile Kasongo In September 1962, Zukhra Rakhimbabaeva was invited to speak at a seminar in Tashkent for African women organised by the...

Hanna Matt Speakers: Prof. Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin, Kazakh-British Technical University and Institute of History and Ethnography, Ministry...

Jade McGlynn In December 1943, as rumours began to swirl of the imminent deportation of Kalmyks, El’za Guchinova consoled her mother that...

Alexander Herbert The Kronstadt uprising of 1921 began as a reaction to strikes in Petrograd regarding food and fuel shortages and news...

Jamie Freeman Nestled between Lithuania to the north and east, Poland to the south and the Baltic Sea to the west, this 5,350-square mile...

Amanda M. Williams Beginning in 1936, the Soviet Union prohibited the abortion procedure, except for specific medical conditions, in...

Ilana Hartikainen Even after the communist regimes had tumbled down in three of Czechoslovakia’s neighbors, the Velvet Revolution still...

Antony Kalashnikov Diverging memories of the communist past undoubtedly fuel both domestic conflict and strain foreign relations across...

Harry C. Merritt An estimated 500,000 Soviet Jews served in uniform during World War II, however they were scattered across the Red Army...

Ben Bamberger In 1923, a group of young and inexperienced Georgian alpinists, led by the mathematician Giorgi Nikoladze and local guide...

Lara Green In an inauspicious looking cul-de-sac in West London stands the house formerly known as 15 Augustus Road. This house, which at...

Susan Grunewald This short post argues for the importance of leaving the main archival centers of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as...

Jonathan Rowson The Ural mountains form a natural boundary between European Russia and Siberia, separating Europe and Asia. This natural...

James C. Pearce The construction of a single, preferred historical narrative has become a core theme of Vladimir Putin’s political...

Iryna Skubii Economic history is a field that has been under-investigated by scholars specializing in Ukrainian, Soviet, and post-Soviet...

Vera Volkmann My PhD project examines loyalty and minority conflicts in Latvia in the interwar period. I focus on the case study of...

Zukhra Kasimova The government-led evacuation to the Soviet East in late 1941 was due to the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War...

Rustem D. Kubeyev All states engage in nation-building, young independent states like Kazakhstan especially. Kazakhstan feels this urge...