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

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

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

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

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

For the next instalment of our archives and libraries series, we spoke to Igor Cașu, head of the National Archives Agency in Moldova....

For our archives and libraries series, Peripheral Histories? editor Siobhán Hearne spoke to Anton Vatcharadze, Shorena Osipova, and...

For the second post our of archives and libraries series, Peripheral Histories? editor Catherine Gibson spoke with Sven Lepa from the...

Our latest Peripheral Histories? series is all about the places that are essential for researching histories of Eastern Europe and...

Ismael Biyashev In a now-classic introduction to The End of Nomadism (1999), David Sneath and Caroline Humphrey proclaim that “the...

For the final instalment of our Baltic series, we turn to Peripheral Histories? editor Catherine Gibson for insight into the visual and...

Philipp Dinkelaker and Paula Oppermann “Due to political and economic circumstances, I would like to emigrate from Germany”,[1] wrote...

Liisi Veski On 12 March 1934, the head of state of Estonia, Konstantin Päts, together with Johan Laidoner, the newly appointed...

Author interview with Una Bergmane Una Bergmane’s new book The Politics of Uncertainty: the US, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of...

Olga Stefan As a researcher and the initiator of the platform The Future of Memory, I focus my activities on rediscovering forgotten or...

Arthur McFarlane Many of Stalin’s subjects dreamt of becoming railway workers as the industry offered material benefits and rapid upward...

Author Interview with Stephan Rindlisbacher Stephan Rindlisbacher's book project Creating a Pandora’s Box: The Soviet Search for National...

David Leupold It is the year 1962. Towering construction cranes stand in the dust of the Central Asian steppe under the scorching midday...

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...

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...