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Soviet Union

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Kazakh Nomads and the Soviet State, 1919-1934

  • Robert Kindler
  • 5 minute read
A review of Kazakh Nomads and the New Soviet State, 1919-1934, by Alun Thomas. Nomads constituted a permanent challenge for…
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“Queuetopia”: Modernity and Standing in Lines in the Second World

  • Susanna Weygandt
  • 5 minute read
A review of Queuetopia: Second-World Modernity and the Soviet Culture of Allocation, by Andrew H. Chapman. This dissertation traces the…
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Eastern Slavic Diasporas in the UK

  • Evangelia Papoutsaki
  • 8 minute read
A review of the Eastern Slavic Diasporas in the UK: The Making of Communities by Ivan Kozachenko. The collapse of…
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Central State and Party archives in Chișinău, Moldova

  • Erin Hutchinson
  • 6 minute read
A review of the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova (Arhiva Națională a Republicii Moldova) and the Archive of…
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Political Culture and Theorizing Post-Soviet Change: Latvia and Belarus

  • Julian Waller
  • 6 minute read
A review of The Effects of Political-Culture on Divergent Patterns of Post-Soviet Political-Economic Transformation: A Comparison of the Experiences of…
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“Objective Authorship” in 20th-Century Russian Writing and Photography

  • Molly Thomasy Blasing
  • 11 minute read
A review of Objective Authorship: Photography and Writing in Russia, 1905-1975, by Katherine Hill Reischl. Katherine Hill Reischl’s Objective Authorship:…
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Islam and Modernity in Kyrgyzstan

  • Madeleine Reeves
  • 8 minute read
A review of The Fruit of Devotion: Islam and Modernity in Kyrgyzstan, by Julie McBrien. In the growing scholarly and…
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Economic Development & State-Making in Cold War Afghanistan

  • Ryan Irwin
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A review of Developing Powers: Modernization, Economic Development, and Governance in Cold War Afghanistan, by Timothy Nunan. When Hakim Taniwal…
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Skeletal Remains and Soviet Violence

  • Michel Bouchard
  • 10 minute read
A review of State-Sponsored Violence in the Soviet Union: Skeletal Trauma and Burial Organization in a Post World War II…
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Purging the Wartime USSR

  • Mark Edele
  • 12 minute read
A review of L’ épuration de guerre en URSS, à partir de l’exemple de la région de Kalinine, 1941-1953 (Purging…
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