Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“The Greens have been clear from day one that we’re a party of peace and non-violence, and we don’t support military aid to the Ukraine,” Shoebridge told this masthead …But we’ve also made it clear that we oppose Russia’s illegal invasion of the Ukraine.” (The Age, today) 🤦🏻♂️ 020
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026theconversation.com/russia-is-cu...theconversation.comRussia is cutting off Ukraine’s grain exports again, threatening a critical harvest and global food securityUkraine has proposed a deal to halt attacks on civilian targets in the Black Sea – an effort to allow grain shipments to resume from both countries. 000
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 31/07/2026@taz.de on @associationruta.bsky.social conference 2026 taz.de/Konferenz-ue...taz.deKonferenz über postsowjetische Ära: Suche nach neuer SolidaritätBei der Konferenz der RUTA-Association im ukrainischen Uschhorod steht die Frage nach einem globalen zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagement im Zentrum. 021
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 24/07/2026www.sbs.com.au/news/article...sbs.com.auZelenskyy has faced years of war. Now comes a test from withinA military shake-up has eased the unrest for now, but revealed the political strains building as the war against Russia drags on. 110
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 23/06/2026As Voltaire said: “I disagree with you, hence I will break your funding model.” Foundations of #WesternCiv www.theage.com.au/world/europe...theage.com.au‘Break’ their funding: McKenzie calls for penalties on universities that teach ‘white guilt’In a keynote address to a major conservative conference in London, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie also called for a tougher approach to border policies so that migrants were chosen on their values... 000
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 16/06/2026theconversation.com/putin-wanted...theconversation.comPutin wanted to make Russia great again. Instead, Ukraine is the new rising power in EuropeRussia is losing on the battlefield – and on the global stage, as the US and China distance themselves from the war. 120
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 27/05/2026“Hellbeck … seems to be almost completely ignorant of the modern historiography of Nazism and the Second World War… One throws up one’s hands in despair when a university professor of history peddles such ignorant twaddle.” www.the-tls.com/history/twen...the-tls.comAnti-communist or antisemitic?A few years ago, Brendan Simms argued in his book Hitler: Only the World Was Enough (TLS, November 29, 2019) that “Hitler’s principal preoccupation throughout his career was Anglo-America and global c... 110
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Does every author get clearly AI generated emails from alleged convenors of inexistent reading clubs promising untold riches if you engage with them? Or do I just seem particularly gullible? (I get several a week — it’s becoming a nuisance). 030
Reposted by Mark EdeleThe RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Registration for non-presenting participants is now open for the RUTA Annual Conference 2026 — Rooted Knowledges and Dialogues for Change, taking place 12–15 July 2026 in the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine. The registration deadline is 27 May 2026. Register here: ruta-association.org/rooted-knowl... 052
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 21/05/2026While geopolitics is a useful cast of mind, terms such as 'the West' or 'Eurasia' are best discarded as artefacts of an earlier era. A longish essay on two recent books on the terms. insidestory.org.au/geopolitical...insidestory.org.auGeopolitical dreams and nightmares • Mark EdeleHow do the “West” and “Eurasia” look from Australia? 000
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"Hellbeck’s compulsion to argue one big thing leads to oversimplification on three levels: his treatment of previous scholarship; the logic of his historical analysis; and, perhaps most fundamentally, his use of primary sources." lareviewofbooks.org/article/worl...lareviewofbooks.orgThe Hedgehog and the Holocaust | Los Angeles Review of BooksJochen Hellbeck’s recent history of the Eastern Front gets caught up in hyperfixating on its one big argument, at the cost of oversimplification. 040
Reposted by Mark EdeleThe RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 05/05/2026We invite you to join our next webinar “Europe's East and Latin America in dialogue: what we (mis)understand about each other?” with Ieva Giedraityté, @oonuch.bsky.social & @ferezmanuel14.bsky.social, in the RUTA-LatAm dialogue series May 8, 18.00 Kyiv Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 043
Reposted by Mark EdeleTereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Join us for this conversation on the pitfalls of campism in global dialogues 032
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 17/04/2026New publication in Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History @universitypress.cambridge.org : Lorenz Lüthi, The Iron Curtain. A Short History of Socialist Borders. Open access for first two weeks. Get your free ebook now before the paywall goes up. www.cambridge.org/core/element...cambridge.orgThe Iron CurtainCambridge Core - Russian and East European History - The Iron Curtain 010
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The Pope is “weak on crime”? Oh my! Bring back the Inquisition then? 000
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 09/04/2026The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), at the University of Alberta has launched a new free online course: Famine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine. More here: holodomor.ca/resource/fam...holodomor.caFamine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine - HRECFamine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine - The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), an initiative of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian 010
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Publicly threatening the destruction of “a whole civilisation” is the textbook definition of genocide. 010
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 23/03/2026“Academically, “bullshit” is broadly defined as “a type of semantically, logically or epistemically dubious information that is misleadingly impressive, important, informative or otherwise engaging”, according to the study.” 010
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 23/03/2026“workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comWorkers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study findsNew study finds that employees impressed by corporate speak may be least equipped to make effective decisions 120
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Is it too obvious to state that renewables do not need to pass through the Straight of Hormuz and that Australia has an unlimited supply of wind, sun, and waves? 000
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Be careful what you wish for. Russia in the new world order Putin dreamt of. theconversation.com/russia-wante...theconversation.comRussia wanted a new world order. This wasn’t the one it had in mindA greater fail is hard to imagine. 040
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 03/03/2026“it is time to work towards a new rules-based order that excludes a UN Security Council veto, currently abused by Russia, the US and China (which may shortly invade Taiwan)” www.theage.com.au/world/middle...theage.com.auIran’s regime is vile, but what Trump and Netanyahu have done is a war crimeThe US and Israel have used the same perverse justification for the attack on Iran that Putin used to invade Ukraine. 000
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Absolutely astonishing speech on so many levels. The Western Civ stuff, the blatant celebration of imperialism, the might makes right sentiment, the call to economically exploit the global south. And this is the “reasonable” side of Trump’s foreign policy establishment. www.state.gov/releases/off...state.govSecretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of StateSECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ... 010
Reposted by Mark EdeleThe English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026New article, by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser: 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...academic.oup.comDreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945*Abstract. Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how p 0116
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 21/01/2026“the question for middle powers … is not whether to adapt to the new reality – we must. The question is whether we adapt by simply building higher walls, or whether we can do something more ambitious.” www.weforum.org/stories/2026...weforum.orgDavos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of CanadaCanadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry. 021
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Is this what Russian “great power projection” looks like? 040
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Being prepared might well avert that future. Being unprepared strikes me as foolish. 110
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 04/01/2026 “It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the supreme crime, it’s the worst crime of all.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comIs there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushback 000
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 30/12/2025“You’re saying maybe the attack didn’t take place – that’s possible too, I guess,” he said at Mar-a-Lago. “But President Putin told me this morning it did.“ 😳😳😳 000
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 26/12/2025"Time to tighten our belts." On the prospects of Russia's economy. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/25/r...themoscowtimes.comRussia's Economy in the Late 2020s Will Look a Lot Like the Late Soviet Economy - The Moscow TimesOpinion | Because of my work, I am obliged to read closely, watch attentively and listen carefully whenever Russian politicians and officials talk about the economy. 000
Reposted by Mark EdeleDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 25/12/2025My traditional values Christmas day Morning: Mass missile attack on civilian power stations. Lunch: Bomb food ships Afternoon: Pretend oil price rose Evening: Unwrap presents 🎄✝️ 15747123
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 24/12/2025A visual reminder of what Russia has “accomplished” in 2025. Those who keep asserting that “Russia is winning” should contemplate the scale of this map. 233
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Could not have said it better (although I tried): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comNATO Did Not Cause Putin’s Imperial WarPublished in The Washington Quarterly (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2025) 110
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Important essay by T. Hendl and S. Durdiyeva on the left's "emotionally charged and invested connection to the USSR and Soviet Utopia" and the continuing harm these phantasies cause progressive politics worldwide. @terezahendl.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comOn Collateral Damage, Selective Anti-Imperialism and the Path to LiberationOur paper explores the legacy of Angela Davis and its intersections with the liberation movements in Europe’s East, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and North Asia. via the re-visiting of Jiří Pelikán’s o... 165
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 09/12/2025“I’m supposed to be a very smart person, I can … I have eyes. I have ears. I have knowledge. I have vast knowledge.” 😳 000
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 23/11/2025“Accelerating the shift to green energy would help cut off support for autocrats like Putin, he said.” Indeed! www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...theage.com.au‘This should ring alarm bells’: Twiggy Forrest demands an end to Russian oil loopholes in AustraliaOne of the country’s top business leaders says no Australian motorist should have to wonder whether their money is helping bankroll Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine. 010
Reposted by Mark EdeleThe RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Due to numerous requests, we are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline has been extended by two weeks. We encourage all interested contributors to take advantage of this extra time to finalize their submissions. We look forward to receiving your contributions by Nov 30 048
Reposted by Mark EdeleThe RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 30/10/2025A reminder about tomorrow’s RUTA webinar, that will explore our approaches to understanding family history, its personal and collective significance, and how we can translate these stories into our contemporary lives and practices in the context of multiple crises. See the registration link below 064
Reposted by Mark EdeleJan Eijking @janeijking.com · 30/07/20254-year Departmental Lectureship in Global & Imperial History in Oxford: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC516/d...jobs.ac.ukDepartmental Lecturer in Global and Imperial History at University of OxfordDiscover an exciting academic career path as a Departmental Lecturer in Global and Imperial History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today! 02018
Reposted by Mark EdeleJulia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The LSU History Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History (excluding Britain). Please spread the word! More details at the link below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor - Modern European HistoryAll Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre... 02221
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Ukraine now world leader in drone technology, Russia in … prosthetics. Nothing could drive home the difference between these two societies more forcefully. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...theguardian.comRussia is leader in prosthetic limbs thanks to Ukraine war, says Kremlin officialDeputy defence minister Anna Tsivilyova said those coming back from the battlefield had become a ‘driver’ in pushing Russia’s innovation in prosthetics 151
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 14/08/2025www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...lowyinstitute.orgTrump’s Alaska summit with Putin ignores what Ukraine’s territory really meansTalk of “land swaps” misses the point and sets a dangerous precedent for international order. 010
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Long read on realism, idealism, Russia and Ukraine. Review essay on recent (very good) books by @avindman.bsky.social and @edwardluce.bsky.social . @insidestory.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/a-dose-of-re...insidestory.org.auA dose of reality for the “realists” • Mark EdeleZbigniew Brzezinski came to resist the tolerance for great-power ambitions that would play out so tragically in Ukraine 011
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social · 11/08/2025www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.com‘Breaking down the walls’: the long journey towards Indigenous inclusion at University of MelbourneInstitution’s second volume of truth-telling reveals a process of reconciliation that has been ‘imperfect, overdue and then often painfully slow, but marked by stories of courage and hope’ 000