Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
The February Revolution: A Reassessment from the Periphery
Dakota Irvin As the centenary of Russia’s February Revolution approaches, there has been a tremendous surge in academic and popular...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Feb 7, 20177 min read
Peripheral Actors, Central Concerns: Observing the Russian Revolution
Griffin B. Creech Though this blog has focused on the “peripheral” history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in a literal sense,...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jan 30, 20174 min read
Venereal Disease and Migration on the Russian Empire's Western Periphery
Siobhan Hearne In 1906, sailors at the Port of Emperor Alexander III in the Baltic town of Libava (now Liepāja in western Latvia) had the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jan 22, 20175 min read
The Soviet Union and where to find it: social discourses about Soviet symbols in Lithuania
Eglė Kesylytė-Alliks On the 11 March 2017 Lithuania will be counting 27 years since the declaration of its independence from the Soviet...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jan 14, 20176 min read
In conversation with Prof. Aleksandrs Ivanovs about History in and of borderlands
Catherine Gibson Latgale (Latgalian: Latgola; Russian: Latgalia) is the name of a region in today’s eastern Latvia, which borders Russia...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Jan 7, 20177 min read
The Centre-Periphery Relationship during Khrushchev’s Thaw: The View from Latvia
Michael Loader During the 1950s, a faction developed within the Latvian Communist Party (LCP). These were the so-called ‘national...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Nov 19, 20165 min read
The Tsar's Numbers: The Rise of Statistics in the Russian Empire
The problem of epistemology plagued the rulers of Russia as it plagues the historian today. How do we gather and assess knowledge about...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Sep 10, 20166 min read
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: A Peripheral Borderland
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: A Peripheral Borderland: Perm’ Province Through the Eyes of Travel Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century Jonathan...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Sep 1, 20167 min read
Research in Armenia: An interview with Shushan Ghazarian
Shushanik Ghazarian is a PhD student in cultural anthropology and researcher at the Institute of Ethnography and Archaeology at the...
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Peripheral Histories ISSN 2755-368X
Aug 24, 201612 min read
Roundtable Report: Doing Research in the South Caucasus
By Jo Laycock Doing Research in the South Caucasus The South Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan; Imperial and Soviet...
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