Griffin B. Creech Though this blog has focused on the “peripheral” history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in a literal sense,...

Siobhan Hearne In 1906, sailors at the Port of Emperor Alexander III in the Baltic town of Libava (now Liepāja in western Latvia) had the...

Eglė Kesylytė-Alliks On the 11 March 2017 Lithuania will be counting 27 years since the declaration of its independence from the Soviet...

Catherine Gibson Latgale (Latgalian: Latgola; Russian: Latgalia) is the name of a region in today’s eastern Latvia, which borders Russia...

Michael Loader During the 1950s, a faction developed within the Latvian Communist Party (LCP). These were the so-called ‘national...

The problem of epistemology plagued the rulers of Russia as it plagues the historian today. How do we gather and assess knowledge about...

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: A Peripheral Borderland: Perm’ Province Through the Eyes of Travel Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century Jonathan...

Shushanik Ghazarian is a PhD student in cultural anthropology and researcher at the Institute of Ethnography and Archaeology at the...

By Jo Laycock Doing Research in the South Caucasus The South Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan; Imperial and Soviet...