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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

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Dedicated to critical, interdisciplinary inquiry into the history and culture of Russia and Eurasia since 2000. We publish forums, discussions, and special issues; translated works; and review articles on Russian, Eurasian, and European subjects.

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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 4h
Happy fall! Not only are the leaves changing, but so is Kritika—it's time for the fall issue! Here's another teaser for our upcoming issue:
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How did Soviet economists go from trying to reform socialism to helping make capitalism possible? Reviewing three recent books, an upcoming essay by Anna Ivanova follows their uneasy path between loyalty to Marxism, market experiments, competition with the West, and “civilizing” the population.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The weather might not feel like it yet, but it's almost fall—and that means a new issue of Kritika coming soon! Today's teaser is for Alexandra Zborovsky's upcoming article on Soviet emigration.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Today, we are spotlighting Sierra Nota's “The Museum-Archive of the Transitional Period: The Curation of Ukrainian Studies in Nazi-Occupied Kyiv and its Postwar Legacy" from Kritika 26, no. 2 (2025).
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What can we learn from souvenirs and religious relics? Luke Jeske uses such sources and more to chart Russian Orthodox pilgrimages to Ottoman Palestine in his new article, published in Kritika's summer edition!
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Cold War culture has largely been studied through the lens of cultural diplomacy and the soft power of two powerful states—but how has recent historiography reoriented the battlefield into "an interactive space where cultural, technological, and other encounters were frequent"?
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
While we are catching up on the new summer issue of Kritika (out now!), we also have time for a #throwbackthursday! Today's spotlight: Stephen Lovell's "Eurasian Parliamentarism: What, Why, and Whither" from Kritika 26, no. 2 (Spring 2025).
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Breaking Kritika news! Our summer issue has been officially sent to press and will be coming your way soon! 🎉 See the cover below, and look forward to more engaging articles about everything from Soviet economic history to the current state of the professoriate.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We've spent the last few weeks spotlighting the different types of articles Kritika publishes, but today, we would like to announce a new article format: the "Conversation"!
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
While Kritika often centers historiography, we are not above also exploring the historians who write it! History and Historians—a type of article you can publish with Kritika— invites authors to consider the ways historical understandings are shaped by historians...
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There are many different types of articles you can publish in Kritika, from Sourcework to Classics in Retrospect to Research Articles. Today, we wanted to spotlight Review Essays and Review Articles!
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We briefly interrupt your reading of the new spring issue for #throwbackthursday! Today, we are spotlighting "The 'Soviet South' in the Brezhnev Era" by Artemy M. Kalinovsky, from vol. 25, no. 3 (2024).
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A new issue means a new Letter from the Editors! In the opening of the new spring issue of Kritika, our editors reflect on the mounting pressures put on Slavic Studies from multiple directions.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Last but not least of the spring issue teasers! In this review, Ryan Reed (University of Helsinki) assesses the state of the art of Gulag studies, placing recent short introductory pieces on the history and memory of the Gulag in conversation with the future and past of the field.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Myths of Stalinism and about Stalinism—those forged during that very epoque and those that took root thereafter... There are quite a few! Among them is the myth of the nonmarket essence of the Stalinist economy.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Another day, another spring issue teaser! How did one Uzbek family’s wartime adoption of multiethnic orphans become an all-Soviet story? Reconstructing the history of (Sha)Akhmed Shamakhmudov and Bakhri Akramova through multilingual sources, Zukhra Kasimova’s article...
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We are continuing to count down to our spring issue, and today we would like to spotlight Rebecca Adeline Johnston's upcoming piece on Khrushchev, corn, and its place in culture. Here's what Rebecca had to say about her piece:
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Let the spring issue sneak peeks begin! Reviewing books has always been part of Kritika’s core mission. We easily forget how kritically reviews can shape their reception and interpretation. Scenarios of Power is a classic™ example.
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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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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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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Are you a recent PhD or early-career scholar interested in writing review essays? We are looking to connect with emerging scholars who would be excited to contribute thoughtful review essays in their fields of expertise.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
In the newest issue of Kritika, our editors continue to tackle some of the field's greatest issues, including challenging funding cuts coming from both the federal and state levels.
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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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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
While we are celebrating the release of our new issue, we are not done celebrating our great editors! Today, our spotlight is on Alexandra Oberländer. She is a research associate at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at FU Berlin.
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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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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We have a fantastic editorial board here at Kritika (as you may have learned), and we are not done spotlighting them yet! Today, meet Gregory Afinogenov, an associate history professor at Georgetown University.
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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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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The last, but certainly not the least, of our associate editors is Matthias Neumann. A specialist in childhood and youth in revolutionary Russia...
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We are not done introducing our great associate editors! This week, meet associate editor Ian Campbell. Ian studies prerevolutionary Russia, focusing on the relationship between the imperial center and its non-Russian borderlands.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Did you know that Kritika has four fabulous associate editors? Today, meet Associate Editor Maria Grazia Bartolini, associate professor of Medieval Slavic Culture at the University of Milan.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In case you missed it: Kritika is excited to welcome Erin Hutchinson as our new Associate Editor. Erin is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches courses on the history of the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire, and modern Europe.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In Kritika's last issue, our editors addressed some of the field's greatest challenges— funding cuts, threats to academic freedoms, and the continued impact of the war in Ukraine—but also the steps Kritika is taking to counter these threats to scholarship.
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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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