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…
Ethnicity & Deportation in Soviet Kazakhstan
A review of Nations in Exile: “The Punished Peoples” in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1941-1961, by Michael H. Westren. In 1941, as…
Empire, State & Social Change in Siberia, 1887-1941
A review of Cultural Curators and Provincial Publics: Local Museums and Social Change in Siberia, 1887-1941, by Julia Fein. Julia…
Soviet Union as “Empire of Friends”
A review of Friendship of the Peoples: Soviet-Czechoslovak Cultural and Social Contacts from the Battle for Prague to the Prague…
Stalin’s Think Tank: The Varga Institute
A review of Stalin’s Think Tank: The Varga Institute and the Making of the Stalinist Idea of World Economy and…
Psychiatry in Stalin’s Soviet Union
A review of Scientific Psychiatry in Stalin’s Soviet Union: The Politics of Modern Medicine and the Struggle to Define ‘Pavlovian’…
Soviet Foreign Relations in the 1950s & 1960s
A review of Red Globalization: The Political Economy of Soviet Foreign Relations in the 1950s and 1960s, by Oscar Sanchez-Sibony.…