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Giacomo Devoto, the Institute for Eastern Europe (IpEO), and the Advancement of Baltic Studies in Italy

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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 Sexualities? LGBT (Studies) in Lithuania – a conversation with Rasa Navickaitė

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Dec 117 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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Breaking out of the Baltic Periphery?: The Global Ambitions of the Duchy of Courland in the Seventeenth Century

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Nov 289 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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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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Nov 69 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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Oct 287 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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Oct 228 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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Indifference to Monolith? Polish identity in the interwar eastern borderlands and the Polish community in post-war Britain

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Sep 258 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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Sep 117 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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Localising the Soviet in China: Industrial Development Beyond Centralised Models

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Jun 39 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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Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union

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May 2011 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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Author Interview Tyler C Kirk – After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North

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May 149 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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Far Away but Never Powerless: Oral Histories of Estonian American Activists

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Mar 258 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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Homosexuality, Nationalism, and Imperial Anxiety in the Early 20th Century Caucasus

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Mar 810 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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Mar 52 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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States as Bastions of Memory: Lessons from the Talysh Case

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Nov 3, 202310 min read

States as Bastions of Memory: Lessons from the Talysh Case

Karli Storm-Närväinen Even the most democratic of aspiring nation-states can be likened to bastions of memory, particularly when...

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Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism

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Oct 2, 20239 min read

Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism

Author interview with Fabian Baumann Fabian Baumann's recently published book, Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian...

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The Periphery's Civil War: Memory, Monuments and Battlefields in Karelia

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Jul 12, 20239 min read

The Periphery's Civil War: Memory, Monuments and Battlefields in Karelia

Alexander Osipov The confrontation between the Reds and the Whites was the main plot of the Civil War in Russia, although a comprehensive...

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Jul 5, 20237 min read

The ICRC Archive and Library

How can the history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union be studied through international organisations? For our archives and libraries...

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Jun 28, 20234 min read

The British Library

We continue our archives and libraries series with a conversation with Katie McElvanney, a Slavonic and East European Curator at the...

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