Mark Edele
@edelemark.bsky.social
Historian of the Soviet Union and its successors, especially Russia. Hansen Chair in History University of Melbourne. Editor: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/soviet-and-post-soviet-history . Views my own. https://www.markedele.com
As Voltaire said: “I disagree with you, hence I will break your funding model.” Foundations of #WesternCiv www.theage.com.au/world/europe...
‘Break’ their funding: McKenzie calls for penalties on universities that teach ‘white guilt’
In a keynote address to a major conservative conference in London, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie also called for a tougher approach to border policies so that migrants were chosen on their values...
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“Hellbeck … seems to be almost completely ignorant of the modern historiography of Nazism and the Second World War… One throws up one’s hands in despair when a university professor of history peddles such ignorant twaddle.” www.the-tls.com/history/twen...
Anti-communist or antisemitic?
A few years ago, Brendan Simms argued in his book Hitler: Only the World Was Enough (TLS, November 29, 2019) that “Hitler’s principal preoccupation throughout his career was Anglo-America and global c...
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Does every author get clearly AI generated emails from alleged convenors of inexistent reading clubs promising untold riches if you engage with them? Or do I just seem particularly gullible? (I get several a week — it’s becoming a nuisance).
Registration for non-presenting participants is now open for the RUTA Annual Conference 2026 — Rooted Knowledges and Dialogues for Change, taking place 12–15 July 2026 in the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine. The registration deadline is 27 May 2026. Register here: ruta-association.org/rooted-knowl...
While geopolitics is a useful cast of mind, terms such as 'the West' or 'Eurasia' are best discarded as artefacts of an earlier era. A longish essay on two recent books on the terms. insidestory.org.au/geopolitical...
Geopolitical dreams and nightmares • Mark Edele
How do the “West” and “Eurasia” look from Australia?
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"Hellbeck’s compulsion to argue one big thing leads to oversimplification on three levels: his treatment of previous scholarship; the logic of his historical analysis; and, perhaps most fundamentally, his use of primary sources." lareviewofbooks.org/article/worl...
The Hedgehog and the Holocaust | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jochen Hellbeck’s recent history of the Eastern Front gets caught up in hyperfixating on its one big argument, at the cost of oversimplification.
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We invite you to join our next webinar “Europe's East and Latin America in dialogue: what we (mis)understand about each other?” with Ieva Giedraityté, @oonuch.bsky.social & @ferezmanuel14.bsky.social, in the RUTA-LatAm dialogue series May 8, 18.00 Kyiv Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us for this conversation on the pitfalls of campism in global dialogues
The RUTA Association@associationruta.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe invite you to our webinar “The Pitfalls of Campism: Global Perspectives” April 21 · 15:00 EEST (Kyiv). Voices from Iran, Syria, Venezuela & Ukraine unpack how global left “campism” misreads struggles, excuses authoritarianism, erases local agency. Join us: tinyurl.com/3kh57f4h
New publication in Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History @universitypress.cambridge.org : Lorenz Lüthi, The Iron Curtain. A Short History of Socialist Borders. Open access for first two weeks. Get your free ebook now before the paywall goes up. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Iron Curtain
Cambridge Core - Russian and East European History - The Iron Curtain
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The Pope is “weak on crime”? Oh my! Bring back the Inquisition then?
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), at the University of Alberta has launched a new free online course: Famine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine. More here: holodomor.ca/resource/fam...
Famine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine - HREC
Famine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine - The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), an initiative of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian
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Publicly threatening the destruction of “a whole civilisation” is the textbook definition of genocide.
“workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Workers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds
New study finds that employees impressed by corporate speak may be least equipped to make effective decisions
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Is it too obvious to state that renewables do not need to pass through the Straight of Hormuz and that Australia has an unlimited supply of wind, sun, and waves?
Be careful what you wish for. Russia in the new world order Putin dreamt of. theconversation.com/russia-wante...
Russia wanted a new world order. This wasn’t the one it had in mind
A greater fail is hard to imagine.
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“it is time to work towards a new rules-based order that excludes a UN Security Council veto, currently abused by Russia, the US and China (which may shortly invade Taiwan)” www.theage.com.au/world/middle...
Iran’s regime is vile, but what Trump and Netanyahu have done is a war crime
The US and Israel have used the same perverse justification for the attack on Iran that Putin used to invade Ukraine.
theage.com.au
Absolutely astonishing speech on so many levels. The Western Civ stuff, the blatant celebration of imperialism, the might makes right sentiment, the call to economically exploit the global south. And this is the “reasonable” side of Trump’s foreign policy establishment. www.state.gov/releases/off...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
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New article, by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser: 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945*
Abstract. Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how p
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“the question for middle powers … is not whether to adapt to the new reality – we must. The question is whether we adapt by simply building higher walls, or whether we can do something more ambitious.” www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada
Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.
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“It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the supreme crime, it’s the worst crime of all.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?
International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushback
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“You’re saying maybe the attack didn’t take place – that’s possible too, I guess,” he said at Mar-a-Lago. “But President Putin told me this morning it did.“ 😳😳😳