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...

Stephen Badalyan Riegg Wedged in an imperial vise between three expansionist powers—Russia, Persia, and Turkey—the king of a tiny...

Uladzimir Valodzin History as Social Activism As a social movements’ activist and a historian, I have been interested since my university...

Phil Kiffer Leopol’d Avzeger possessed an atypical biography for a late-Stalinist chekist. A Ukrainian Jew born in Polish Drohobych, he...

Visitors to the Reception of the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1946-1953 Kristy Ironside In reaction to...

Alun Thomas Face of the Desert (Lik Pustyni) was first published in Moscow in 1948. The book was written by Boris Alexandrovich...

Mikhail Nakonechnyi For decades, an impenetrable veil of secrecy surrounded the GULAG - an acronym for the system of forced labour...

Jessica Werneke After the Second Word War, photography became a favorite pastime of the Soviet populace, and a popular amateur leisure...

Olena Palko In March 1924, a Moscow best-selling author Boris Pil’niak was invited to a literary evening in Kharkiv. Pil’niak was...

Vicky Davis Exactly a year ago, a new war film hit Russian cinema screens. Dvatsat’ vosem’ panfilovtsev (Panfilov’s 28) tells the story...

Timothy Blauvelt, Ilia State University and American Councils for International Education, Tbilisi, Georgia Central Asia and the Caucasus...

G. S. Zhugenbaeva The creative legacy of Harold Karlovich Belger (1934-2015), social and political actor and literary translator,...

Aminat Chokobaeva In August 1916, the native nomads [1] of Semirechye rose in a popular rebellion that for weeks reduced the colonial...

Maryna Batsman In 1917, the Russian Empire collapsed. The Bolsheviks began to reform nearly every aspect of pre-revolutionary life. The...