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Irina Roldugina 🦔

@mozzgi.bsky.social

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Queer history (imperial and soviet). DPhil, Oxon.

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My face and the topic. Well, this is what scholarly excitement looks like.

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Berlin Pride 2026🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

He knew that even if he avoided prosecution in Russia, his life would turn into hell if the KGB shared the photos with the UK press or the authorities. direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

John Vassall did have diplomatic immunity when he was approached by the KGB in Moscow in 1955 and shown photos of him having sex with a Soviet man. He could have left, but he did not.

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Indeed.

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Yes, I prefer top secrets only.

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This is a photo of a couple: a Soviet electrician, Tolya, and his partner, one of the Cambridge Five, Guy Burgess, in Moscow. They lived together until Burgess’s death in 1963. If you want to learn more about the KGB, the Cold War and homophobia, read my new piece. direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Did you know that the largest model of Tatlin’s Tower, the symbol of the new communist present and future, is in Norwich, UK? I didn’t. Interestingly, I learned this while attending a conference dedicated to 1917 in Norwich.

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I can’t help but post one more—such harmony in every detail.

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Working in the Bodleian for the first time since graduation! Nothing has changed. My favourite thing, apart from the vast collection, is the scent of books and the smell of aged wood used throughout the interior. Cannot be found elsewhere.

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Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I miss working with 18th-century Russian archival stuff.

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