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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
May 12, 20237 min read
'Nomadic Archaeology': Mobility, Modernity, and Primitivism in the Russian Empire and Early USSR
Ismael Biyashev In a now-classic introduction to The End of Nomadism (1999), David Sneath and Caroline Humphrey proclaim that “the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Apr 3, 20238 min read
Mapmakers in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire
For the final instalment of our Baltic series, we turn to Peripheral Histories? editor Catherine Gibson for insight into the visual and...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Mar 27, 202315 min read
A Letter to “Brothers in Faith”: Attempts at Jewish Emigration from Nazi Germany to Riga
Philipp Dinkelaker and Paula Oppermann “Due to political and economic circumstances, I would like to emigrate from Germany”,[1] wrote...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Mar 20, 20239 min read
Interwar transnational authoritarianism and the case of “social solidarity”
Liisi Veski On 12 March 1934, the head of state of Estonia, Konstantin Päts, together with Johan Laidoner, the newly appointed...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Mar 13, 20236 min read
The Politics of Uncertainty: the US, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Author interview with Una Bergmane Una Bergmane’s new book The Politics of Uncertainty: the US, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Feb 21, 20238 min read
The “Little Girl with Sword”, or how easily we forget when memory objects lose their memory
Olga Stefan As a researcher and the initiator of the platform The Future of Memory, I focus my activities on rediscovering forgotten or...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jan 5, 20238 min read
Korenizatsiya and The Curious Case of the Railways
Arthur McFarlane Many of Stalin’s subjects dreamt of becoming railway workers as the industry offered material benefits and rapid upward...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Nov 22, 20226 min read
Creating a Pandora’s Box: The Soviet Search for National Borders
Author Interview with Stephan Rindlisbacher Stephan Rindlisbacher's book project Creating a Pandora’s Box: The Soviet Search for National...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Nov 9, 20227 min read
Between Earthquakes and Mashrabiya: 'Indigenizing' Prefab Housing in Post-Stalinist Kyrgyzstan
David Leupold It is the year 1962. Towering construction cranes stand in the dust of the Central Asian steppe under the scorching midday...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Aug 31, 20222 min read
Series Conclusion: Diversity, ethnicity, and mobility in modern Central Asia
Alun Thomas It’s often remarked that academic interest in the history of Central Asia from outside of the region has surged in the past...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Aug 17, 20226 min read
The moneylenders of Tashkent – informal economy, cross-border ties, and Tsarist controls
Roman Osharov Would you take out a loan at 120 percent per annum? In colonial Tashkent, Central Asia's largest and richest city in the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Aug 12, 20226 min read
Writing a Multiethnic History of the Kazakh Famine
This blog post discusses some upsetting themes. Mehmet Volkan Kasikci In the early 1930s, millions of people starved to death across the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jul 25, 20226 min read
Researching Displacement in Central Asia: A Reflection on the Use of Sources
Hanna Matt Drawing on my dissertation research on displacement and famine in Central Asia, this blog post will reflect on the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jul 14, 20227 min read
The Last Emir of Bukhara in Exile Across the Border
Malika Zehni “… While the people of Bokhara were asleep… They set fire to the city and threw bombs from aeroplanes,” read the opening...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jun 29, 20225 min read
Memories of Deportation - From the Russian Far East to Central Asia
Mira Kuzhakhmetova The first migrations of Koreans to the Russian Far East were recorded in the second half of the nineteenth century....
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jun 23, 20227 min read
Geographic Information System (GIS) and Central Asian History
Akira Ueda What is Historical GIS? Geographic Information System (GIS) is a category of computer software that visualises, integrates,...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
May 30, 20227 min read
Poland’s rediscovered East Europeanness
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused a remarkable shift in Poles’ mental maps. The line dividing the East...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
May 13, 20228 min read
The Tourist Periphery: Russia’s Golden Ring Cities
James C. Pearce First a motoring route during the late Soviet era, The Golden Ring got its name from journalist Yuri Bychkov. Asked to...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Mar 28, 20225 min read
“Bessarabia is Romania!”
Grant T. Harward “Bessarabia is Romania!” This slogan, and variations of it, is spray-painted and plastered across Romania. Bessarabia...
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