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James Mark

@jamesamark.bsky.social
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Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022) arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/p…

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Applications now open for a fully-funded PhD studentship exploring Yugoslavia’s multifaceted role during the Cold War, co-supervised with @exeter.ac.uk . This is one of a number of studentships available as part of AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. Find out more: link.bl.uk/q95
A bright coral red graphic with black and white Yugoslavian stamps accross the bottom. Text in the centre reads Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961 - 1979. With University of Exeter. Uncover fresh insights into Cold War socialism and anti-colonialism from a Yugoslav perspective, centering on the largely unexamined Joint Translation Service (JTS) bulletins. Deadline Tuesday 5 May.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
As we enter a period of major global instability- what The Economist termed ‘the Age of Chaos’ we need new thinking. So I’m delighted to announce this major new programme on Global Disorder, in partnership with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
The Economist cover - The Age of Chaos
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Sabine Volk @sabinedvolk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Happy to have contributed a chapter on culture and #memory in far-right #protest events in Eastern #Germany, and I’m especially excited that one of my fieldwork photographs was selected for the cover! BTW this book is fully #openaccess
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John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Yesterday, we launched the new Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. @catherineowen.bsky.social Muireann Maguire, Nelly Bekus, and others organised with excellent external speakers and a display of the wealth of Eurasia expertise at Exeter. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
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Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ECEEES) | Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies | University of Exeter
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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc
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CEMS Exeter @cemsexeter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Professor Catherine Hall will be delivering our annual early modern history lecture, "Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic". Join us on Wednesday 5 March from 15:30 to 17:00 in the Newman Red lecture theatre, or on Zoom. Register here: racialcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk #earlymodern
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Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic
A lecture by Professor Catherine Hall on the question: what was ‘racial capitalism’ in its C18 form?
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 21/02/2025
Just finished and highly recommend this by Eva Dou. Sober yet gripping. Perhaps not enough detail on how exactly Huawei leapfrogged so many times, but fair enough. The best parts are on Ren Zhengfei's early life and on Huawei's initial expansion along the fringes (and in the rubble) of US empire.
Cover of the book "House of Huawei" by Eva Dou.
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Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
From the reality of settler colonialism to the end of the postwar order, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/02/21/t...
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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
erhui1979/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Marc-William PalenHistory Department, University of Exeter From the reality of settler colonialism to the end of the postwar order, here are this we…
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
📢EXETER BOOK LAUNCH📢 My fab colleague Ryan will be in conversation with Dr. Malcolm Richards to talk about his biography of Robert Wedderburn, a man central to Black radical political thought in the Revolutionary Atlantic. 🗃️ 📆Tues 12 March 7pm 🏫Bookbag 🎟️£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tues-11-ma...
Photo of the cover of a book, it is red, with an engraving of the head and shoulders of a man in the centre. Author: Ryan Hanley. Title: Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist.
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James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom: Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf 🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
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Wilson’s White World: the Foundation of Central-Eastern European Nation-States and the Global History of Race
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James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom: Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf 🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
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Wilson’s White World: the Foundation of Central-Eastern European Nation-States and the Global History of Race
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Koji Hirata @khirata.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My book, “Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism,” finally has a confirmed publication date—December 5, 2024. You can order it via Amazon. www.amazon.com/Making-Maos-...
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Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China)
Amazon.com: Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China): 9781009382267: Hirata, Koji: Books
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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
Published today: "Europe in British Literature and Culture" edited by Petra Rau and Will Rossiter (Cambridge University Press). Chapter 6 by me is on "Balkans and Ruritania"; Chs. 1-5 and 7-26 also recommended! www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
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Europe in British Literature and Culture
Cambridge Core - European and World Literature: General Interest - Europe in British Literature and Culture
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Reka Krizmanics @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The next item on my reading list: Masha Kirasirova's The Eastern International. 🗃
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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Open Access...which is nice docs.lib.purdue.edu/ces/9/#:~:te....
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Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction
The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professi...
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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Russia’s stark population decline is leading to increasingly wild proposals for upping birth rates. Not just abortion restrictions, monetary incentives, or attacks on “child free propaganda” - there’s also consideration for freeing female prisoners and nullifying sentences of those who conceive.
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James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This global take on the contemporary rise of radical conservatism looks really good.
world of right text
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello Bluesky, I am a historian based in Ankara. A few months ago, Oxford University Press published my first book, which explores the way that Russian and Turkish revolutionaries arrived at a statist partnership as they responded to post-WWI liberal internationalism.
Book cover of "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford University Press, 2024).
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Annelotte Janse @annelottejanse.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Hi new followers! I use this account to stay updated on all things far-right, past and present. In August ‘24, I defended my dissertation ‘The Pursuit of White Security’. In it, I show that the fantasies of ‘white security’ fueling recent right-wing terrorist attacks are anything but new.
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History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
#OpenAccess #new Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War by Sebastian Pampuch, 2024, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... #GDR #DDR #exil #SACP #ANC #internationalism #ColdWar
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 15/11/2024
Until recently, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum was the only major Russian institution dedicated to the memory of Soviet-era repressions that hadn’t come into the government’s crosshairs. Now that appears to be over.
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Citing ‘fire safety violations,’ Russia shutters its last major museum dedicated to Soviet-era repressions — Meduza
On Wednesday evening, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum announced that it would close indefinitely due to “fire safety violations” discovered during an inspection. Citing the city’s Culture Department,…
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James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
On reactions in Hungary to Trump's win vsquare.org/goulash-unex...
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Goulash: Unexpected reactions to Trump’s win; Orbán allies plot major deals - VSquare.org
I’ve just returned from a trip through the Baltics and Central Europe, stirring the pot with the flavors of regional sentiment after Trump’s recent win. The general takeaway on how he pulled it off? A...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 24/04/2024
this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in @risjnl.bsky.social, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Historians! I'm drawing up a bibliography of work from any region and any period that reflects on what history looks like from the sides, from the middles-of-nowhere, from the peripheries; and work that examines how those places come to be defined that way. I'd love some recommendations.
A picture of the milky way galaxy with an arrow saying 'you are here'.
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
And this afternoon, you can participate (also on Zoom!) in a workshop New Tendencies in Writing the Intellectual Histories of East Central Europe, combined with the launch of 4(!) books discussing Central Eastern European pasts. @szidora.bsky.social events.ceu.edu/2024-11-14/c...
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our upcoming volume (comes out in January) is about rethinking modern imperialism from its (European) margins, the intro might be of interest?
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Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe
This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring how smaller E…
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Reposting this in the hope that the array of new followers can help spread the word about a truly global M.A. program in the Social Sciences at the University of Freiburg - still two weeks left to apply to @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social
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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
NEW CANARY ALBUM Dr. Eva Davidovà’s work on Slovak Roma music, language, & life includes this album of her field recordings — the first anthology of Romani songs in Czechoslovakia, made during a brief window of liberalization by the totalitarian regime. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/romane...
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Romane Gil'a: 1958-71 Field Recordings of Roma Songs from Slovakia, Eastern Czechia & Northern Hungary, by Dr. Eva Davidovà, recordist
27 track album
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Peripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Our series highlighting archive & library collections relaunched last month and we will post the latest instalments in this thread. First, we spoke to Ivanna Cherchovych of REESOURCES - an innovative platform useful for anybody teaching European history www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/reesour...
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REESOURCES
Our archives and libraries series is back with new interviews related to digital primary source collections, as well as with archivists and librarians who manage underused collections related to Easte...
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Moving beyond just the GDR, this year with Oxford UP, Raluca Grosescu and I have co-edited: "Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies." It should be available before Christmas (at least electronically).
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Seán Hanley @drseanhanley.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Date for your diary. This Thur 14 Nov @uclssees Streamed online and in-person. Trumping Eastern Europe: Repercussions of the US elections | UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...
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Trumping Eastern Europe: Repercussions of the US elections
Please join us for this SSEESing event with a panel of experts from UCL SSEES
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CEU Review of Books @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
In The Eastern International (OUP, 2024) Masha Kirasirova explores how the concept of "the East" was used by the Soviet Union to spread their ideology across Eurasia. Aleksandr Korobeinikov reviews the book: tinyurl.com/KirasirovaRe...
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The unknown story of the Soviet Eastern International - CEU Review of Books
In The Eastern International (Oxford University Press, 2024) Masha Kirasirova explores how the concept of "the East" was used by the Soviet Union and its intermediaries to spread their ideology across...
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you! go.bsky.app/77uSk3m
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
On science fiction and the Alt-right lareviewofbooks.org/article/whos... via @lareviewofbooks
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Whose Future Is It Anyway? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jess Maginity reviews Jordan S. Carroll’s “Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right.”
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Looking for people to follow? Find here a directory of almost 6500 starter packs & growing. Very useful, do share! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Our new co-edited collection Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024) is open access, free to download here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 12/11/2024
It doesn't overlap completely with the North Africa starter pack which you can find here:
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 12/11/2024
I mad a starter pack for African Studies. Let me know who else should be in here!
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 12/11/2024
This way for broader histories of colonialism and imperialism:
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 12/11/2024
Ok, here is the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Starter Pack (VERY MUCH under construction) If you are a HGS researcher or institution and you aren't on here, please comment. And also recommend folks! go.bsky.app/7mxC2NF
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
We have made some updates to our starter pack of Imperial & Commonwealth Historians: go.bsky.app/4qEornE
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Jane Freeland @jecfree.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Celebrating the publication of this #OpenAccess sourcebook on histories of women’s rights and feminism in socialist Eastern Europe. It is such a valuable resource for teaching! ceupress.com/book/texts-a...
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Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Room for one more starter pack? Here's the (very) beginning of a list of people, journals, institutions etc, working in or adjacent to contemporary European History. Comment if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I hadn’t seen anyone else do it, so I’m working on a starter pack of Russia/USSR/Eurasia historians. Check it out! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ
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