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Sam Hirst

@samueljhirst.bsky.social
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Historian. Bilkent University, Department of International Relations. www.samueljhirst.com

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Çağdaş Üngör @cagdasungor.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Ekopolitik için yazdım. ekopolitik.org.tr/taha-akyol-v...
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Taha Akyol ve Sovyet Yel Değirmeni - EkopolitikTR
Soğuk Savaş literatürü Türkiye’de henüz emekleme aşamasında sayılır. İkinci Dünya Savaşı’nın sona erdiği 1945 yılından Sovyetler Birliği’nin dağıldığı 1991 yılına kadar süren bu ideolojik ayrışma, bir...
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Having spent years rewriting a dissertation that was too narrowly focused on interwar Soviet-Turkish relations to make it more international, I am thrilled to have received the #AHA26 book prize in European international history. The list of past winners contains many of the works that inspired me.
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The list of past winners includes many scholars whose works were inspiration for my own. I am honored that my book was chosen for this award.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Congratulations to Anne O’Donnell, whose book Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution won the @aseees.bsky.social's Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe! Read about her book here: hubs.ly/Q03LB1yv0
Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution by Anne O'DonnellAnne O'Donnell
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Congratulations to Samuel Hodgkin, winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize for, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism with Cambridge University Press. #ASEEESPrizes See all winners: buff.ly/nwIZZjj
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Great article. (1/2)
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
New article on Open Access! Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social on 'Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940*
Abstract. This article re-examines the international thought of British historian Robert W. Seton-Watson during a period of intense national and imperial t
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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Yıllar süren uzun bir yolculuğun sonunda yeni kitabımızın Ekim ayında @kronikkitap.bsky.social tarafından yayımlanacağını paylaşmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz. Kitapta gökyüzünde bir anda belirip, muazzam bir enerjiyle parlayıp kayan bir yıldızın hikayesini anlattık, umarım beğenirsiniz.
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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Considering discussing this essay on the first day of the semester in my class on Historical Research and Writing 🗃️ The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Congratulations Harrison King, 2025 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellow! “The Mountains Above the Black Sea: A History of the Georgian-Turkish Border, 1878-1965” buff.ly/wl2Qp6V
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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
#History #SkyStorians Triple review klaxon! Andrew Peak on Samuel J. Hirst's Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 (OUP, 2024). doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Really looking forward to talking with my friend, @samueljhirst.bsky.social, about his excellent new book on Friday.
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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Many thanks to @vhtroyansky.bsky.social for reviewing my book The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) in the #SlavicReview 83:4 W2024 doi.org/10.1017/slr.... ✨ #skystorians🗃️ #menasky #balkansky #islamicstudies
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Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular. The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina. Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. x, 332 pp. No...
Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular. The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina. Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. x, 332 pp. No...
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Candan Badem @candanbadem.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
My book Kars Province under Russian Rule is now available for pre-order from @routledgehistory.bsky.social #KarsOblast #КарсскаяОбласть www.routledge.com/Kars-Provinc...
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Kars Province under Russian Rule: Imperial Rivalry and Nation-Building in the Periphery, 1878-1918
This book analyses the borderland province (oblast) of Kars under Russian imperial rule from 1878 to 1918. It is a study of imperial expansion, inter-imperial rivalry, colonization, legal and administ...
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Diplomatic History @diplomatichistory.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Diplomatic History is now on Bluesky! Check out our April edition if you haven't already: academic.oup.com/dh/issue
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Issues | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic
The official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present...
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Erdem Sönmez @erdemsonmez.bsky.social reviews 'Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939', by Samuel J. Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939,, By Samuel J. Hirst
How did the Soviet Union and republican Turkey establish a statist partnership within the context of the liberal international order of the inter-war perio
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Erdem Sönmez @erdemsonmez.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Saying hi to Bluesky with my review of Samuel Hirst's Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, just out in the English Historical Review enghistrev.bsky.social ‬ academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
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Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939,, By Samuel J. Hirst
How did the Soviet Union and republican Turkey establish a statist partnership within the context of the liberal international order of the inter-war perio
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
At the end of the storm... #LFC #Liverpool
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Meral Ugur-Cinar @meralugurcinar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
For those who want to make sense of how injustices by the incumbent toward the Istanbul mayor and toward the political opposition in general mobilize voters, our article with Tuğçe İnce just got assigned to an issue (open access) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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What Leads to Voting Despite Intention to Abstain?: Emotions, Turnout, and Negative Campaigns in Turkish Elections | Review of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core
What Leads to Voting Despite Intention to Abstain?: Emotions, Turnout, and Negative Campaigns in Turkish Elections - Volume 57 Issue 2
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Behlül Özkan @behlulozkan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Yozgat izlenimleri: Yozgatlılar bu çapta mitingi 1983’te Özal, 2002’de Erdoğan yapabildi. Biz 50 yıldır CHP’yi burada görmedik dediler. CHP'nin tarihî mitinginin ardından kentte neler konuşuldu? aposto.com/s/yozgattan-...
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Aposto | Yozgat'tan izlenimler: CHP'nin tarihî mitinginin ardından kentte neler konuşuldu?
Hayatın yavaş aktığı, 100 bin nüfuslu Yozgat; muhafazakar-milliyetçiliğin “kalesi”; siyasette ise yaprak kıpırdamayan bir şehirdi. Ta ki geçen aya kadar... Toplumsal meselelerde gerçekte yaşanan, ço...
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
For those in Ankara this Thursday:
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Gulriz Sen @gulrizsen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yeni yazım. fikirturu.com/jeo-politika...
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Suriye’de Esad sonrası dönemde Türkiye-İran İlişkileri: Belirsizlik ve gerilim - Fikir Turu
Suriye’deki durum Türkiye-İran ilişkilerini nasıl etkiliyor ve etkileyecek? İran Suriye’de neler yapabilir? İran Suriye’den tamamıyla vazgeçer mi? Suriye’nin yeni yönetimiyle İran arasında nasıl bir i...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Seeing police snatch a Turkish PhD student off the street for writing an op-ed was horrifying. And familiar. With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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We Study Repression in Turkey. Now We See It Here.
The detention of a Tufts graduate student echoes the violation of rights in her home country.
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Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I hope everyone in Washington who spoke out against Turkey's unjust jailing of Andrew Brunson will be equally forceful in speaking out against this:
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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I wrote about @samwetherell.bsky.social's brilliant new book www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...
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Lost Liverpool - Boston Review
The city was at the vanguard of working-class obsolescence. How should we understand its fate?
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
✅ Tuğba Bayar (Bilkent University) bit.ly/candidatepro...
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I’m an amateur when it comes to this but my basic take when it comes to higher ed as a sector is there are two points critics and supporters both miss. First, “admin bloat” is a function of the winnowing of the welfare state and a response to students demanding/requiring proliferating services.
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This Monday (March 10th) at 16:00 EST/23:00 IST, Eileen Kane and Steffi Marung will join me for an online discussion of Against the Liberal Order as part of the Washington History Seminar series. The event is co-hosted by @wilsoncenter.org and @historians.org. Registration via the link below.
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Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939
Join Samuel J. Hirst (Bilkent University) for a discussion of his latest book "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939"
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Turkey Book Talk @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New episode 🚨🚨 Selim Koru (@selimkoru.bsky.social) on Turkey’s role in the emerging anti-liberal world order. His book, "New Turkey and the Far Right", dives deep into the stark worldview driving Turkey’s regime change under President Erdogan. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/03/04/s...
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Selim Koru on Turkey’s role in the emerging anti-liberal world order
Turkey Book Talk #239 – Selim Koru, analyst at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey and fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in US, on “New Turkey and the Far Right: H…
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My dad worked for one of the oldest state-owned enterprises in Turkey. During the 1980s/90s, when privatization was THE item on the agenda, the government appointed a new CEO. This guy--a complete outsider to the organization-- initially held a meeting where employees voiced their concerns..1/4
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Astonishing behavior. Raises some big questions about the business model.
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Excellent new article by @balistrerialex.bsky.social in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Great to see this work on Turkey's interaction with the League of Nations/EFO. Of relevance for those interested in Turkey and (il)liberal internationalism, as well as for anyone who finds Turkish prices high.
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Jacob Lorenz's Mission to Turkey (1938): Corporatism, Kemalism and the Cost of Transforming Society | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Jacob Lorenz's Mission to Turkey (1938): Corporatism, Kemalism and the Cost of Transforming Society
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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
İstanbul havalimanında 8 kahve, 8 yarım litrelik su, 8 kapuçino, 8 kruvasan, 8 tane de sandviç al, asgari ücret finito.
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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Absolutely delighted about the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), which looks at the global history of non-European powers in the imperial age.
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I'm so glad Santa is a red.
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Great podcast with Nergis Ertürk about her book on Soviet-Turkish literary encounters between the 1920s and the 1960s. newbooksnetwork.com/writing-in-red
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Nergis Ertürk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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Y. Doğan Çetinkaya @ydogancetinkaya.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
An interview with @erhankelesoglu.bsky.social on the recreation of the Türkiye İş Bankası museum in the latest issue of Toplumsal Tarih journal. Erhan Keleşoğlu ile Türkiye İş Bankası Müzesi’nin yeniden tasarlanış sürecini konuştuk. Toplumsal Tarih’in Aralık sayısında…
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Lukas Schemper @lukasschemper.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
And on other things, too! Glad to see this out. Thanks to Thomas and @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social for putting this together!
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I enjoyed this conversation with @williamarmstrong.bsky.social of @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social. To download Against the Liberal Order: academic.oup.com/book/57363
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Samuel Hirst on a century of Ankara-Moscow cooperation
Turkey Book Talk · Episode
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
@andottoman.bsky.social is here #menasky
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The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association @andottoman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Our schedule for the 2025 OTSA W'OTSAp Fridays!
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A book about #Egypt that debuts next week: “The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser.”
The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Umut hoca's work on decolonization and international law has helped me think through the connections between the Soviet-Turkish encounter and the history of liberal internationalism and the history of capitalism. Excited to read his review in JMH!
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Selim Koru @selimkoru.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A personal essay of a Syrian in Istanbul observing the fall of the regime:
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The closest I got to Damascus
What December 8 felt like for a Syrian in Istanbul
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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I'm not sure that I could pick a favorite essay from this thread; I am sure that I'm waiting hard for the book-length history of Turkey that's on its way.
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