<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Peripheral Histories]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peripheral Histories]]></description><link>https://www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:32:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The changing architecture of Tusheti mountain villages in northern Georgia ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stefan Applis Tusheti is a historic region in the Caucasus. To the north,t is separated from the Republic of Chechnya within the Russian Federation by a mighty mountain range. To the west, another mountain range separates it from the neighbouring Georgian regions Pshavi and Khevsureti. Since the Tusheti region became a UNESCO biosphere reserve, tourism has been steadily increasing. Due to its remote location, traditional architecture has been preserved there largely unchanged.[i] This...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/the-changing-architecture-of-tusheti-mountain-villages-in-northern-georgia</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0ed029b883334b04dfae35</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:01:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_b71347bc93c04bbf87442177ba71bb13~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_684,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026), Harry C. Merritt explores the wartime experiences and postwar legacies of the almost 200,000 Latvian residents who fought on either side of the ideological divide. To mark its recent publication, Peripheral Histories? editor Siobhán Hearne spoke with Harry about researching and writing Latvian wartime history.   PH: What motivated you to write this book? HM: Ever since I...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/latvian-soldiers-of-world-war-ii-fighting-for-the-homeland-in-nazi-and-soviet-service</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0edf6c2b5c18841b92ed57</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 13:55:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_58af1903645647168af541bf80770359~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_520,h_785,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peasant Memoirs from Interwar Northeastern Poland and the Power of Irony]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stanisław Edward Boridczenko     Writing from the Margins In much of Eastern Europe, as elsewhere, contemporary national histories have traditionally been written from the perspective of elites, with a few notable exceptions. Political leaders, generals, and intellectuals dominate most national narratives, while the lives of ordinary people often appear only in passing. Within such an approach, the countless smaller stories of those outside the ruling classes are usually treated as secondary...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/peasant-memoirs-from-interwar-northeastern-poland-and-the-power-of-irony</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b3e05bb399be9717d35b46</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:16:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_35431dbf2408409283c480e117886ca3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why History Matters: Georgia’s Soviet legal inheritance and the structural origins of democratic decline]]></title><description><![CDATA[Giorgi Meladze More than three decades after independence, Georgia continues to confront a persistent paradox of rule of law reform. In recent years, as concerns about democratic decline and institutional backsliding have intensified, this paradox has acquired renewed significance. Despite repeated constitutional amendments, extensive judicial restructuring, and sustained alignment with European legal standards, courts have struggled to function as independent institutions. Explanations...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/why-history-matters-georgia-s-soviet-legal-inheritance-and-the-structural-origins-of-democratic-dec</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b29a3aa7843f58b68194fc</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:34:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_6ff4d55681964929a52a6d7814efe225~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_756,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adelina Stefan talks to Peripheral Histories about researching and writing a transnational history of tourism in two peripheral postwar European dictatorships (Romania and Spain). ]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/vacationing-in-dictatorships-international-tourism-in-socialist-romania-and-franco-s-spain</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696604cdf5f6771556765349</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:57:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b36923_e8fce2ed8b46459b9c397f5ba1735ffe~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>priskakomaromi</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering Repression:  Charting the Political Legacies of Soviet Repressions ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Isabelle DeSisto Valentina [1]  was born in exile in Krasnoyarsk, the second-largest city in Siberia, to an ethnic German father and a Moldovan mother, both of whom had been deported from their homes under the orders of Josef Stalin. Valentina returned to Moldova – then the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) – in the 1960s. Because of her background, she was not allowed to study law at university. Nevertheless, she told me in our interview, “I received a good education thanks to my...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/remembering-repression-charting-the-political-legacies-of-soviet-repressions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6943f79af98824434c15bed7</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:54:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_391b2e208c0a4831a82074f1bfb5aec8~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_762,h_570,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bound by Exclusion and Violence: A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Bound by Exclusion and Violence: A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century  (published by University of Toronto Press, 2025) Aleksandra Pomiecko follows a group of Belarusian nationalists from the First World War through to the Cold War era to show how Belarus was a key hub of ideological and political conflict throughout the twentieth century. To mark its recent publication, Peripheral Histories? editor Siobhán Hearne spoke with Aleksandra about twentieth-century...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/bound-by-exclusion-and-violence-a-history-of-belarusian-armed-struggle-in-the-twentieth-century</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6937ebf623903b14ad78a91a</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:33:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_a4c0926b400e4916826a18fda5319f6f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Morard In 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle,  in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for the future of the Soviet economy. In an article titled “Un Domaine d’experimentation Economique” (“A space for economic experimentation”), Estonia was presented as an ideal space for the Soviet government to test new forms and methods of economic management to later be scaled up. This was due to...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/a-laboratory-of-economic-reform-estonian-experiments-with-agro-industrial-associations-in-the-era-o</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690b4db24cb1a91e8e5b0c49</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:28:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_ddf7eba728f2496eaec12f6327818fef~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_533,h_803,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Moscow’s Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR  (published with Cornell University Press, 2023) Isaac McKean Scarborough weaves together archival documents from Dushanbe and Moscow to tell the story of how reforms introduced by the central government manifested in Tajikistan. Peripheral Histories? Editor Hanna Matt spoke to Isaac about how the population in Tajikistan experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as the process of researching the book. Your book chronicles...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/moscow-s-heavy-shadow-the-violent-collapse-of-the-ussr</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ff5b17dc39b5e10eb1499b</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:50:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_54ebe382357948ab97f54a8a9dbbd161~mv2.avif/v1/fit/w_596,h_857,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beatrice Penati’s new book Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan 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the...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/red-priests-in-the-holy-city-vatican-ostpolitik-informants-and-soviet-lithuanian-priests-in-the-c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cd4a0fd21422e782182571</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:20:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_a791128c7b6f4ee48c04437009f301f6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Disappearance of Sigma’s Forgotten Sprinklers and Sprayers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kate ř ina Zäch The Soviet government attempted to demonstrate its resolute power by shaping the perceptions of the population in ways...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/the-disappearance-of-sigma-s-forgotten-sprinklers-and-sprayers</link><guid 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Doukhobors’ Attempted Return to Soviet ​Union in the 1920s ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Victoria Peretitskaya As religious dissenters, the Doukhobors, a pacifist Christian sect dating back to the eighteenth century, endured...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/migration-as-protest-and-nostalgia-the-doukhobors-attempted-return-to-soviet-union-in-the-1920s</link><guid isPermaLink="false">684986d83f129b86dcb52fc6</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:59:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_094fe5e040c24507a507c1ea6818f5d1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Pursuit of Home: The History of Old Believers’ Resettlement in Alaska]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aglaia Gulakova These remaining Old Believers must be seen  – their strength, their conviction, their selfless nightly prayers (no longer...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/in-pursuit-of-home-the-history-of-old-believers-resettlement-in-alaska</link><guid isPermaLink="false">683d63bcdfcb53bd957bceaa</guid><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:04:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bea291_90df897f36d9431490f51ae37e048b9f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing Central Asia: Uncovering Kazakh and Uzbek Estrada]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leora Eisenberg It would have been absurd if it wasn’t quite so sincere: at least seven Kazakhstani composers sitting in a conference...]]></description><link>https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/mysiteok/post/singing-central-asia-uncovering-kazakh-and-uzbek-estrada</link><guid 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