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…
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“Queuetopia”: Modernity and Standing in Lines in the Second World
A review of Queuetopia: Second-World Modernity and the Soviet Culture of Allocation, by Andrew H. Chapman. This dissertation traces the formation of the queue as…
Eastern Slavic Diasporas in the UK
A review of the Eastern Slavic Diasporas in the UK: The Making of Communities by Ivan Kozachenko. The collapse of the Soviet Union has had…
Central State and Party archives in Chișinău, Moldova
A review of the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova (Arhiva Națională a Republicii Moldova) and the Archive of Social-Political Organizations of the Republic…
Political Culture and Theorizing Post-Soviet Change: Latvia and Belarus
A review of The Effects of Political-Culture on Divergent Patterns of Post-Soviet Political-Economic Transformation: A Comparison of the Experiences of Latvia and Belarus Since 1991,…
“Objective Authorship” in 20th-Century Russian Writing and Photography
A review of Objective Authorship: Photography and Writing in Russia, 1905-1975, by Katherine Hill Reischl. Katherine Hill Reischl’s Objective Authorship: Photography and Writing in Russia,…
Islam and Modernity in Kyrgyzstan
A review of The Fruit of Devotion: Islam and Modernity in Kyrgyzstan, by Julie McBrien. In the growing scholarly and popular literature on Central Asia,…
Economic Development & State-Making in Cold War Afghanistan
A review of Developing Powers: Modernization, Economic Development, and Governance in Cold War Afghanistan, by Timothy Nunan. When Hakim Taniwal was murdered in Paktia, Afghanistan…
Skeletal Remains and Soviet Violence
A review of State-Sponsored Violence in the Soviet Union: Skeletal Trauma and Burial Organization in a Post World War II Lithuanian Sample by Catherine Elizabeth…
Purging the Wartime USSR
A review of L’ épuration de guerre en URSS, à partir de l’exemple de la région de Kalinine, 1941-1953 (Purging the Wartime USSR: A Study…