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Russian and Soviet Studies

AndrewChapman
Russia/Soviet

“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 t...
DiasporaMigrationStudies1_Ivan Kozachenko
Diaspora/Migration

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...
DSCF1574
Russia/Soviet

Historical Preservation in Northwestern Russia after World War II

A review of The Material Culture of Stalinism, The City of Novgorod, Urban Reconstruction, and Historic Preservation in the Soviet Union After World W...
JohannesDueEnstad
Russia/Soviet

Soviet Citizens Under German Occupation, 1941-1944

A review of Soviet Citizens Under German Occupation: Life, Death, and Power in Northwest Russia, 1941–1944, by Johannes Due Enstad. Studies of civilia...
ErinHutchinson
Eastern Central Europe

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 ...
MollyThomasyBlasing
Russia/Soviet

Writing with Light: Photo-Poetic Encounters in 20th-Century Russian Poetry

A review of Writing with Light: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Tsvetaeva, Pasternak and Brodsky, by Molly Thomasy Blasing. Molly Thomasy Blasing’s dissert...
KseniaTatarchenko
Russia/Soviet

Transnational Cold War Computer Science: The Akademgorodok Computer Center

A review of A House with the Window to the West: The Akademgorodok Computer Center (1958-1993), by Ksenia Tatarchenko. As conventional wisdom would ha...
Katie Hiatt
Eastern Central Europe

Soviet-era Police and Security Services Archives in Ukraine

A review of the State Archive Branch of the Security Services of Ukraine (Галузевий державний архив Служби Безпеки України) (Kyiv) The State Archive B...
AileenFriesen
Religious Studies

The Russian Orthodox Church and Colonization in Southwestern Siberia

A review of Building Orthodox Communities outside Mother Russia: Church and Colonization in Omsk Diocese, 1885–1917, by Aileen Friesen. The most signi...
Jennifer_Keating
Fresh from the Archives

Visual Sources in Russian Archives

Visual Sources in Russian Archives The vagaries of archival research can be taxing enough when working with conventional text-based sources, but tryin...
Jennifer_Polk
Russia/Soviet

The American Red Cross and YMCA in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1924

A review of Constructive Efforts: The American Red Cross and YMCA in Revolutionary and Civil War Russia, 1917–24, by Jennifer Polk. Jennifer Polk’s di...
SocialAnthropology_AliaaRemtilla2
Inner/Central Asia

Post-Socialism & Islam in Tajikistan

A review of Re‐producing Social Relations; Political and Economic Change and Islam in Post‐Soviet Tajik Ishkashim, by Aliaa Remtilla Aliaa Remtilla’s ...
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