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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
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Overlooked Topics and Seeking Recognition: The Changing Representations of Soviet Deportations in Estonian Cinema
Hanna Maria Aunin In January 1988, the editorial board of the Tallinnfilm studio signed a contract with Rein Saluri for a feature film...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Feb 37 min read
Peripheral Sexualities? LGBT (Studies) in Estonia – a conversation with Rebeka Põldsam
As part of the series that discusses ‘peripheries’ in the Baltic states, Rasa Kamarauskaitė (RK) of the BASEES Study Group on the Baltic...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jan 287 min read
A Banned Christmas?: Keeping Tradition in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Underground
Kateryna Budz One of the most popular Ukrainian carols is ‘Nova Radist’ Stala’ (‘A New Joy has Come’), which tells the story of the birth...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jan 910 min read
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal
It is no secret that the Peripheral Histories? editorial team is comprised of a few historians of humanitarianism who are rather...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Dec 23, 202410 min read
National education and teaching history in interwar Estonian schools
Mann Loper The establishment of Estonia’s independent statehood in 1918 took the political and cultural freedom of Estonians to an...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Dec 17, 20248 min read
Giacomo Devoto, the Institute for Eastern Europe (IpEO), and the Advancement of Baltic Studies in Italy
Rosario Napolitano Establishing Baltic Studies in Interwar Italy In the aftermath of the First World War, the Western powers paid...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Dec 11, 20247 min read
Peripheral Sexualities? LGBT (Studies) in Lithuania – a conversation with Rasa Navickaitė
Rasa Kamarauskait ė (RK) As part of the series that discusses ‘periphery’ in the Baltic states, Lithuanian sexuality scholar Rasa...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Nov 28, 20249 min read
Breaking out of the Baltic Periphery?: The Global Ambitions of the Duchy of Courland in the Seventeenth Century
John Freeman The early modern eastern Baltic Sea has often been considered, with some criticism, a global periphery in comparison to the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Nov 12, 20247 min read
Open Society Archives
For our special series on libraries and archives with collections easily accessible online, Peripheral Histories? editor Priska Komaromi...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Nov 6, 20249 min read
The Blavatnik Archive
To highlight another fantastic digital resource Peripheral Histories? editor Susan Grunewald spoke to the Blavatnik Archive , a...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Oct 28, 20247 min read
Leeds Russian Archive
As we expand our special series on libraries and archives to highlight collections that are easily accessible from the UK or online,...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Oct 22, 20248 min read
REESOURCES
Our archives and libraries series is back with new interviews related to digital primary source collections, as well as with archivists...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Sep 25, 20248 min read
Indifference to Monolith? Polish identity in the interwar eastern borderlands and the Polish community in post-war Britain
Josef Butler The 1951 UK census identified 162,339 Polish-born individuals settled permanently in Great Britain. [1] Of this cohort,...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Sep 11, 20247 min read
From Incarceration to Repatriation
Author Interview with Susan C. I. Grunewald Susan Grunewald’s recently published book From Incarceration to Repatriation (Cornell...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jun 3, 20249 min read
Localising the Soviet in China: Industrial Development Beyond Centralised Models
Karina Khasnulina At the beginning of the First Five Year Plan in China, Mao Zedong said: ‘What can we make at present? We can make...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
May 20, 202411 min read
Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union
Author interview with Vicky Davis Vicky Davis’ recently published book Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
May 14, 20249 min read
Author Interview Tyler C Kirk – After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North
Tyler C. Kirk is Associate Professor and the Arthur T. Fathauer Chair of History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Mar 25, 20248 min read
Far Away but Never Powerless: Oral Histories of Estonian American Activists
Leah Johnson “We all grew up with the history of Estonia, the injustice of that history… what the Soviets did. And as I was growing up,...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Mar 8, 202410 min read
Homosexuality, Nationalism, and Imperial Anxiety in the Early 20th Century Caucasus
Anna Efimova “Take my money and give me a kiss” In July 1913, two individuals of Azeri descent[1] residing in Tiflis disseminated an...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Mar 5, 20242 min read
Open call to join the Peripheral Histories? editorial collective
Founded in 2016, the Peripheral Histories? blog and digital history project is a platform for spotlighting ongoing research on the...
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