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Kola Contested: Early Modern Russo-Danish Sovereignty in the Arctic
Earl Joshua Hodil Maps are invaluable instruments in the historian’s toolbox, offering visual representations of historical phenomena....
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Dec 1, 20219 min read
Non-Russian Intellectuals of Siberia: Regionalism & the Transformation of the Russian Empire
Aleksandr Korobeinikov The Russian revolution of 1917 marked a turning point in Russian imperial and world history. Explanations of this...
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Nov 12, 202113 min read
Yerevan 1954: Anastas Mikoyan and Nationality Reform in the Thaw, 1954–1964
Pietro A. Shakarian Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw represented a major period of historical change for the Soviet Union, a period that included...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Oct 25, 20217 min read
Researching Informal Politics in the Early Soviet Periphery
In this post, Timothy K. Blauvelt reflects on writing his new book, Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Oct 11, 20217 min read
Laboratory of Socialist Development - Decolonization and economic development in the Tajik SSR
Author interview with Artemy M. Kalinovsky Artemy M. Kalinovsky's important book, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics...
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Sep 16, 202111 min read
Selling Siberia: Russian Railway Panoramas at the 1900 Exposition Universelle
Tyson Luneau “…this immense sea, a sea reaching to the horizon, a blue sea crisscrossed by the flights of birds…A dream: Lake Baikal,...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jul 16, 20217 min read
Utopia's Discontents - Russian émigré communities in fin de siècle Europe
Author interview with Faith Hillis Faith Hillis's recently published Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom,...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jul 9, 20216 min read
Vladivostok via Singapore: Mapping the Indian Ocean dimension of the 19th-century Russian Empire
Mikko Toivanen “Gusev was looking at the little window and was not listening. A boat was swaying on the transparent, soft, turquoise...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jun 24, 20218 min read
Wrong Tatar, Wrong Place: Stalin’s Mass Deportations and the Fluidity of Ethnic Identity
Andrew Straw This post underlines the NKVD’s confusion and chauvinism directed towards Tatars- one of the largest ethnic groups in the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jun 14, 20219 min read
Researching Female Urban Prostitution in the Provinces of Late Imperial Russia
Author interview with Siobhán Hearne Siobhán Hearne’s recently published Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jun 4, 20215 min read
Brain Drain, Grigorii Z. Eliseev and Siberia’s Peripherality
Diego Repenning The theme of ‘brain-drain’ has been an issue the Russian Federation has dealt with for a long time. After the fall of the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
May 10, 20217 min read
Exploring the Russian Refugee Diaspora in Iran, 1930-1955
Marcus James Father Alexander (Zarkasheev), current priest of the Russian Orthodox Church of St Nicholas conducting prayers in the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Apr 16, 20216 min read
Grazing the Limits of Provincial Philanthropy
Christine Grant In a sand-floored forest not far from the Ukrainian town of Poltava, an icon of Stalinist pedagogy was born. The Gorky...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Mar 22, 20219 min read
38 Years a Slave: The Narrative of Joseph & Transnational Slavery in the Caucasus
Sergey Salushchev Towering over the crossroads between Europe and Asia, the snow-capped tops of the Caucasus mountains stand as silent...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Feb 18, 20217 min read
‘The reverse side of the picture’: The Soviet city and countryside in the eyes of British travellers
Nick Hall My work looks at British travellers in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The decade saw many thousands of foreigners visiting the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Feb 1, 202110 min read
Falling through the cracks of history: Daniil Filimonov and Orthodoxy in Chuvashia
Alison Ruth Kolosova During a break from working in the State Historical Archive of the Chuvash Republic, I walked out across the new...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jan 18, 20216 min read
World Heritage tourism and the built space of Svaneti, Georgia
Stefan Applis Located at the head of the Enguri gorge in Svaneti in western Georgia, the village community of Ushguli represents a...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Dec 14, 20206 min read
Is Central Asian History Peripheral?
Prajakti Kalra Modern day Central Asian countries, namely Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Dec 11, 20201 min read
Interview: The Oxus Society
On 11th December 2020 we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Erica Marat and Dr Edward Lemon from the Oxus Society for Central Asian...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Nov 23, 20206 min read
A file, an archivist, and a metal bookcase
Emanuela Grama “I don’t remember having seen this file before,” the archivist told me when he returned from the stacks to the reading...
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