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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hi team, I have very great news. Marisa Karyl Franz's "Near and Desired Things" is out and shipping and all those desired things. Is yours on the way? Did you order from the informative and appealing @cornellupress.bsky.social book page? The one here?: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

April showers bring May flowers...but also a new Kritika issue! Stay tuned if you are interested in the state of Gulag studies, the hybridity of Soviet Uzbek identities, Khrushchev's fascination with corn...

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 07/05/2026

Oleg Novoselov, a historian of Soviet-era political repressions, has been arrested in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of "inciting assistance to terrorism." In Sept 2025, he was among the 1st to report that state archives will restrict researcher access to repression-era case files. 66.ru/news/inciden...

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Исследователя репрессий на Урале обвинили в содействии терроризму

Олегу Новоселову грозит до 15 лет колонии. Он участвовал в работе уральского отделения «Мемориала».

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Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

#Skystorians, die lehren, aufgepasst! Unser Buch ist da und als free download hier zu haben: www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index... Buchvorstellungsanfragen gerne an uns Herausgeber_innen oder hier direkt an mich oder @kreienbaumj.bsky.social.

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Gewalt historisch lesen

Eine Quelle, zwei Interpretationen: ein multiperspektivischer Zugang zum Umgang mit Quellen in der Gewaltgeschichte.

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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

For #throwbackthursday, we are spotlighting some of our favorite articles and reviews from past Kritika editions. Today, "Liberal Values in Russia, 1996: How Washington Hijacked the Muppets" by Xenia Cherkaev takes center stage.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

On advance access: "Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia" by Felix Cowan (@utoronto.ca) and Sarah Badcock (@uonhumanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

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The Russian Review @russianreview.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If you have not written a book review or review essay for us and would like to be on our list of potential book reviewers, then reach out to us at rusrev@ku.edu. We are always looking for scholars to add to our list of reviewers! More info can be found here: russianreview.ku.edu/submissions

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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Drum roll, please, for our final editor spotlight: Stephen Bittner, who is our Special Projects Editor! He is a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide at Sonoma State University, California.

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

My other article is out in @kritikajournal.bsky.social. In it, I show how, after Stalin’s death, leftist queer people in the West forged and demonstrated forms of queer kinship with their counterparts in the USSR. It is a new lens on the study of Soviet queer life, moving beyond national narrative⬇️

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/03/2026

‘The years between 1989 and 1991 were an apocalyptic time in which old rules, values and habits were overturned, and flux became the new norm. For many, spiritualism of various kinds seemed to be the answer.’ Sheila Fitzpatrick on Soviet spiritualism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Sheila Fitzpatrick · Apocalypse Forgotten: Late Soviet Spiritualism

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ‘...

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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Another week springs forward, which also means another editor spotlight! Today, meet editor Krista Goff. She is an associate professor of history at the University of Miami.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935." More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

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Presenting queer visual history (PicMe) | Tampere universities

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...

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Niklas Weber @niklasweber.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Pünktlich zum Frühlingsanfang ist meine Dissertation zur Kulturgeschichte der Eisenbahnreise erschienen. Wie schön! Bestellen und probelesen kann man das Buch hier: www.campus.de/buecher-camp.... (1)

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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The submission deadline for our "Demonstrations" Call for Proposals has been extended to March 15! You still have time to get your proposals in for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion on the history of political movements and dissent throughout Eurasian history.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️ What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images? (free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)? Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org

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Public Domain Image Archive

Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It was such a pleasure to interview Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, "By Flesh & Toil". Historians of early modern empire, France, gender, sex, race and labour will find so much food for thought here – a truly game-changing book for our understanding of the early French empire! 🗃️

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Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)

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Society for the History of Emotions @ehcsjournal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The call for papers for an exciting new workshop on Growing up in the Early Modern World is now live. This hybrid workshop will offer online participation and the deadline for submissions is July 15th. Please see the poster for full details.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The great Soviet dissident historian Roi Mevedev has died at the age of 100. He is best known in the West for his pioneering 1971 study of Stalinism «К суду историй» (“To the Judgment of History,” published in English as “Let History Judge.” He was the brother of fellow dissident Zhores

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Умер писатель и историк Рой Медведев — Meduza

Советский и российский писатель, историк и публицист Рой Медведев умер на 101-м году жизни, сообщает ТАСС со ссылкой на его родственников.

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The Russian Review @russianreview.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Check out these History book reviews published in the January 2026 issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Brutal numbers on Marie Curie Fellowships: over 17 000 applications, with success rate dropping to below 10%. For a scholarship of 2-3 years only, no matter how prestigious, it only shows how impossible academia has become.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 10/02/2026

In NYRB, @joyneumeyer.bsky.social looks at Poland's lessons for democracy supporters hoping to unite against autocrat dirtbag nationalists. "Feminist fury" as an engine for change, if you can keep it. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 09/02/2026

Big opportunity here: the NYT is hiring a new Russia correspondent (an in-office position based in Berlin). www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

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Correspondent (Russia) | The New York Times Company

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Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is on Bluesky now. Follow here: @kritikajournal.bsky.social #academicsky #skystorians

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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

📝 Call for Proposals: “Demonstrations”: Rituals of Political Belonging, Support, and Dissent in Eurasia from the Medieval Period to 2000 For more information, visit kritika.georgetown.edu/announcement... #russianhistory #historians #callforpapers #conferenceproposals #cfp

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Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I just stumbled across a treasure of #Soviet diafilms online. They were often used for teaching in schools and are great material for teaching #history today. #skystorians archive.org/details/sovi...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 03/02/2026

Georgy Avaliani was mobilized into the Russian army, survived a “torture basement,” and escaped abroad. Now, he’s wanted in Russia and Germany has rejected his family’s asylum application. According to Mediazona, his case is hardly unique. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Fleeing the front and wanted in Russia, deserters face deportation as Germany ‘churns out’ asylum rejections — Meduza

Georgy Avaliani, a 47-year-old father of three, was mobilized into the Russian army in the fall of 2022. He fled the front line as soon as he was deployed, only to be arrested, held in a “torture…

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Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My review essay on "The Work That Never Ends" has been published open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It reviews an edited volume on #emotions and #work, two books on #NS concepts of work and a monograpgh on a #GDR enterprise. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians

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The Work That Never Ends? New Works on the History of Labour | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

The Work That Never Ends? New Works on the History of Labour - Volume 35

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Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Sometimes I happen to invent new and really good words/terms. My latest (in german): Cis-Dudismus. In english: cis-dudism. #academicchatter #gender #masculinity

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My interview in Die Zeit coming out shortly. Thanks to them for allowing me this mild criticism of survey data in the German mainstream press.

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Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Great #cfp is out: "I've got the power": New perspectives on gender and power in the GDR In Greifswald in March 2026: salon21.univie.ac.at?p=84096

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

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The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us

what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

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CAGE Research Centre @cagewarwick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history? New book by @mark4harrison.bsky.social and Stephen Broadberry looks across three centuries of global history for clues to how economic sanctions and warfare worked and why their effects often came as a surprise. buff.ly/2vOcWIl

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

History Workshop has a great podcast, too. #History

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transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Prekarität und Machtmissbrauch in der Wissenschaft – historische Kontinuitäten und Wandlungen seit dem Mittelalter. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376… #Kulturgeschichte #Sozialgeschichte #Geschichtswissenschaft #Zeitschrift

Das Buch-Cover von »WerkstattGeschichte. 2025/2, Heft 92« auf taubenblauem Hintergrund.

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