The problem of epistemology plagued the rulers of Russia as it plagues the historian today. How do we gather and assess knowledge about...

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: A Peripheral Borderland: Perm’ Province Through the Eyes of Travel Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century Jonathan...

Shushanik Ghazarian is a PhD student in cultural anthropology and researcher at the Institute of Ethnography and Archaeology at the...

By Jo Laycock Doing Research in the South Caucasus The South Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan; Imperial and Soviet...

Research in Progress: Imperial Russia and Armenian Refugees on the Caucasus Front of the Great War 1914-1917 By Asya Darbinian While...

By Dakota Irvin I am writing my dissertation on the Russian Revolution and Civil War in the provinces, in particular the city of...

By Carrie Crockett Over the past few years, I have been researching Russia’s efforts to colonize Sakhalin during the 19th century. The...

CONFERENCE REPORT: Russia's Failed Democratic Revolution, February-October 1917: A Centenary Reappraisal March 11-12, 2016 Rome,...

Donald J. Raleigh is the Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author...

By Timothy Nunan Where was Russian and Soviet history? This question might seem to have a straightforward answer: within the borders of...

By Hannah Parker The period of socialist construction that followed the Russian Revolutions entailed huge upheavals to the personal and...

Siobhan Hearne I am currently writing my PhD thesis on female prostitution in late-imperial urban Russia, and I am particularly...

By Mirjam Galley Хорошо у нас в школе! Afanasenko/Kairova (eds), Piat' let shkol-internatov (Moscow: Izdat APN RSFSR, 1961), p. 32. The...

How local power structures related to the wider Russian state in 1917 is a question at the heart of English-language scholarship on the...