The Politics of Russian Archaeology in Ottoman Lands
A review of Byzantine Heritage, Archaeology, and Politics between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1894-1914), by Pinar Üre. Pinar Üre’s…
Category Archives: Russia/Soviet
Non-Fiction Cinema in the USSR
A review of Le cinéma de non-fiction en URSS. Création, production et diffusion (1948-1968) [Non-fiction Cinema in the USSR: Creation, Production and Distribution], by Irina…
Kazakh Nomads and the Soviet State, 1919-1934
A review of Kazakh Nomads and the New Soviet State, 1919-1934, by Alun Thomas. Nomads constituted a permanent challenge for the Soviet state. Due to…
Citizenship in Soviet Uzbekistan
A review of Implementing a Vision of Citizenship in Soviet Uzbekistan: Theory, Social Issues and Education, by Sevket Chevy Akyildiz Beginning in the late Brezhnev…
Money and Monetary Policy in the Soviet Union, 1945-1964
A review of The Value of a Ruble: A Social History of Money in Postwar Soviet Russia, 1945-1964, by Kristy Ironside. Money talked in the…
Siberian Patriots and the Russian Imperial State, 1858-1920
Review of Siberian Patriots: Participatory Autocracy and the Cohesion of the Russian Imperial State, 1858-1920, by David Rainbow David Rainbow’s PhD thesis looks at the…
Transnational Conceptions of Russian-Language Literature
A review of Russophonia: Towards a Transnational Conception of Russian-Language Literature, by Naomi Caffee. Naomi Caffee’s 2013 dissertation offers a long-demanded, yet scarcely attempted reappraisal…
Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
A review of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Архив Президента Республики Казахстан / Қазақстан Республикасы Президентінің Мұрағаты) (Almaty, Kazakhstan). The…
Religion in Post-Soviet Tajikistan
A review of Religious Revival in Tajikistan: The Soviet Legacy Revisited, by Hélène Thibault. Whereas a range of studies on the everyday realities of Islam…
Narratives and Identities of Soviet Chernivtsi: The Fate of Jewish Czernowitz in Postwar Ukraine
Review of The Making of Soviet Chernivtsi: National “Reunification,” World War II, and the Fate of Jewish Czernowitz in Postwar Ukraine, by Svitlana Frunchak. With…