Alex Oberländer
@alexoberlaender.bsky.social
Historian of Russia/Soviet Union; Cultural History of Work; History of Sexual Violence; History of Emotions research associate (wiss. MA) @OEI/FU Berlin; associate @FSO Bremen editor @Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History #skystorians
Hi team, I have very great news. Marisa Karyl Franz's "Near and Desired Things" is out and shipping and all those desired things. Is yours on the way? Did you order from the informative and appealing @cornellupress.bsky.social book page? The one here?: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
April showers bring May flowers...but also a new Kritika issue! Stay tuned if you are interested in the state of Gulag studies, the hybridity of Soviet Uzbek identities, Khrushchev's fascination with corn...
Oleg Novoselov, a historian of Soviet-era political repressions, has been arrested in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of "inciting assistance to terrorism." In Sept 2025, he was among the 1st to report that state archives will restrict researcher access to repression-era case files. 66.ru/news/inciden...
Исследователя репрессий на Урале обвинили в содействии терроризму
Олегу Новоселову грозит до 15 лет колонии. Он участвовал в работе уральского отделения «Мемориала».
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#Skystorians, die lehren, aufgepasst! Unser Buch ist da und als free download hier zu haben: www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index... Buchvorstellungsanfragen gerne an uns Herausgeber_innen oder hier direkt an mich oder @kreienbaumj.bsky.social.
Gewalt historisch lesen
Eine Quelle, zwei Interpretationen: ein multiperspektivischer Zugang zum Umgang mit Quellen in der Gewaltgeschichte.
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For #throwbackthursday, we are spotlighting some of our favorite articles and reviews from past Kritika editions. Today, "Liberal Values in Russia, 1996: How Washington Hijacked the Muppets" by Xenia Cherkaev takes center stage.
Fancy a 4-year PhD position in Berlin @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social? Apply here: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet... #easterneurope #russia #soviet #energy
OI-Prädoc-65%-Kultur_E
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On advance access: "Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia" by Felix Cowan (@utoronto.ca) and Sarah Badcock (@uonhumanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
A Russian court (in Chelyabinsk) has banned the Oscar-winning film Mr. Nobody Against Putin, after prosecutors argued it had a "negative attitude toward the [the Ukraine war] and the current government," and it showed "extremist and terrorist propaganda." t.me/mediazona_ex...
Медиазона. Эксклюзив
Челябинский суд запретил в России фильм «Господин никто против Путина» Об этом сообщает корреспондент «Медиазоны» из зала Центрального райсуда Челябинска. Единственной стороной, присутствовавшей в с...
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If you have not written a book review or review essay for us and would like to be on our list of potential book reviewers, then reach out to us at rusrev@ku.edu. We are always looking for scholars to add to our list of reviewers! More info can be found here: russianreview.ku.edu/submissions
Drum roll, please, for our final editor spotlight: Stephen Bittner, who is our Special Projects Editor! He is a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide at Sonoma State University, California.
My other article is out in @kritikajournal.bsky.social. In it, I show how, after Stalin’s death, leftist queer people in the West forged and demonstrated forms of queer kinship with their counterparts in the USSR. It is a new lens on the study of Soviet queer life, moving beyond national narrative⬇️
The health resort of #Tskaltubo #Georgia | A look back at the spa system of the #SovietUnion stefan-applis-geographien.com/2020/06/25/t...
The health resort of Tskaltubo | A look back at the spa system of the Soviet Union
Located 15 km northwest of Kutaisi, the second largest city in Georgia, Tskaltubo was one of the largest spas in the Soviet Union during the Soviet era. In the 1970s, the system of health resorts c…
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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s great-granddaughter, Nina, was designated as a "foreign agent" today by the Russian govt. She's been a public liberal intellectual for years, of course, but it still feels like another milestone for the Putin regime. t.me/ostorozhno_n...
Осторожно, новости
Правнучку Никиты Хрущёва Нину признали иноагентом. Также в реестр попали: — экономистка и профессор Парижской школы экономики Екатерина Журавская; — философ Вадим Штепа; — оппозиционный журналист из…
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‘The years between 1989 and 1991 were an apocalyptic time in which old rules, values and habits were overturned, and flux became the new norm. For many, spiritualism of various kinds seemed to be the answer.’ Sheila Fitzpatrick on Soviet spiritualism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sheila Fitzpatrick · Apocalypse Forgotten: Late Soviet Spiritualism
The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ‘...
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Another week springs forward, which also means another editor spotlight! Today, meet editor Krista Goff. She is an associate professor of history at the University of Miami.
An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935." More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...
Presenting queer visual history (PicMe) | Tampere universities
Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...
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Dear #skystorians. You do not have to be interested in #queer #history to read this. #coldwar #soviet #kgb
Irina Roldugina 🦔@mozzgi.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis is a photo of a couple: a Soviet electrician, Tolya, and his partner, one of the Cambridge Five, Guy Burgess, in Moscow. They lived together until Burgess’s death in 1963. If you want to learn more about the KGB, the Cold War and homophobia, read my new piece. direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...
#skystorian #history #soviet #russia #eurasia
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History@kritikajournal.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe have a fantastic editorial board here at Kritika (as you may have learned), and we are not done spotlighting them yet! Today, meet Gregory Afinogenov, an associate history professor at Georgetown University.
Pünktlich zum Frühlingsanfang ist meine Dissertation zur Kulturgeschichte der Eisenbahnreise erschienen. Wie schön! Bestellen und probelesen kann man das Buch hier: www.campus.de/buecher-camp.... (1)
Schulmann is also facing terrorism charges due to her connection to the Russian Anti-War Committee.
Exiled Political Analyst Yekaterina Schulmann Jailed 1 Year in Absentia for Breaking ‘Foreign Agent’ Law - The Moscow Times
A judge in Moscow on Monday sentenced exiled political commentator Yekaterina Schulmann to one year in prison in absentia after finding her guilty of violating Russia’s “foreign agent” law.
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The submission deadline for our "Demonstrations" Call for Proposals has been extended to March 15! You still have time to get your proposals in for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion on the history of political movements and dissent throughout Eurasian history.
A 1911 travel memoir by German explorer Richard Karutz offers a rare glimpse of nomadic Kazakh and Turkmen life before imperial transformation https://ow.ly/MO5k50Yl7zS #CentralAsia #History #TravelWriting #Kazakhstan #Turkmenistan
An Early European View of Nomadic Central Asia - The Times Of Central Asia
Rather than producing an official report or military survey, Karutz wrote in a personal and descriptive style typical of travel literature. His narrative
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Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️ What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images? (free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)? Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org
Public Domain Image Archive
Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
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It was such a pleasure to interview Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, "By Flesh & Toil". Historians of early modern empire, France, gender, sex, race and labour will find so much food for thought here – a truly game-changing book for our understanding of the early French empire! 🗃️
Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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The call for papers for an exciting new workshop on Growing up in the Early Modern World is now live. This hybrid workshop will offer online participation and the deadline for submissions is July 15th. Please see the poster for full details.
