We have a great new post up from Aleksei Rumiantsev on Bashkir folklore and identity www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/my-bash...
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Peripheral Histories? is a collaborative digital history project focused on peoples and regions of Eastern Europe and Eurasia that have been perceived as geographically, politically, or culturally “peripheral" https://www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/
We are heading to Georgia for our latest post. Stefan Applis examines the changing architecture of Tusheti mountain villages in the north of the country www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/the-cha...
The changing architecture of Tusheti mountain villages in northern Georgia
Stefan ApplisTusheti is a historic region in the Caucasus. To the north,t is separated from the Republic of Chechnya within the Russian Federation by a mighty mountain range. To the west, another moun...
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I was interviewed about my book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service. My thanks to @peripheralhist.bsky.social for the thoughtful questions and the chance to share my thoughts! bsky.app/profile/peri...
Peripheral Histories?@peripheralhist.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor all those interested in the history of the Second World War and Latvia, we have a new author interview for you. Check out our conversation with @harrymerritt.bsky.social on his recently-published book 'Latvian Soldiers of World War II' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/latvian...
For all those interested in the history of the Second World War and Latvia, we have a new author interview for you. Check out our conversation with @harrymerritt.bsky.social on his recently-published book 'Latvian Soldiers of World War II' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/latvian...
Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service
In Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026), Harry C. Merritt explores the wartime experiences and postwar legacies of the...
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We have a brand new author interview up on @peripheralhist.bsky.social. This time, we spoke with @harrymerritt.bsky.social about his brilliant new book 'Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/latvian...
Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service
In Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026), Harry C. Merritt explores the wartime experiences and postwar legacies of the...
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New post alert! This week we have Stanisław Edward Boridczenko on interwar Polish memoirs and the power of irony www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/peasant...
Peasant Memoirs from Interwar Northeastern Poland and the Power of Irony
Stanisław Edward Boridczenko Writing from the MarginsIn much of Eastern Europe, as elsewhere, contemporary national histories have traditionally been written from the perspective of elites, with a fe...
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We have an interesting new post up on the website by Giorgi Meladze on Soviet legal legacies in Georgia and democratic decline www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/why-his...
Why History Matters: Georgia’s soviet legal inheritance and the structural origins of democratic decline
Giorgi MeladzeMore than three decades after independence, Georgia continues to confront a persistent paradox of rule of law reform. In recent years, as concerns about democratic decline and institutio...
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I interviewed Adelina Stefan for @peripheralhist.bsky.social about her book on international tourism in communist Romania and Franco's Spain. Take a look here! www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/vacatio...
Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain.
Adelina Stefan talks to Peripheral Histories about researching and writing a transnational history of tourism in two peripheral postwar European dictatorships (Romania and Spain).
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A call for papers that may be of interest to our readers - The 'Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia' conference will be held at the University of Szczecin in October networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia | H-Net
Conference Call for Papers: Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern EurasiaPlace and Date: 28–29 October 2026, University of Szczecin, PolandConveners: Stanisław Boridczenko (University of Sz...
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We have a fascinating new post from @isadesisto.bsky.social examining the impact of Soviet repressions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia on the political behaviour of victims and their descendants www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/remembe...
Remembering Repression: Charting the Political Legacies of Soviet Repressions
Isabelle DeSistoValentina[1] was born in exile in Krasnoyarsk, the second-largest city in Siberia, to an ethnic German father and a Moldovan mother, both of whom had been deported from their homes und...
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We have a new author interview up on Peripheral Histories? This time, we spoke with Aleksandra Pomiecko about her fascinating new book 'Bound By Exclusion and Violence: A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/bound-b...
Bound by Exclusion and Violence: A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century
In Bound by Exclusion and Violence: A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century (published by University of Toronto Press, 2025) Aleksandra Pomiecko follows a group of Belarusian n...
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We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism
Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...
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A little something I wrote on the role of Estonia as a "laboratory" space for experimenting with new forms of economic management in the Soviet Union, particularly in regards to the food system. Thank you @peripheralhist.bsky.social! www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism
Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...
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We have a new author interview on this website! Our editor Hanna Matt spoke with Isaac McKean Scarborough about his important book 'Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/moscow-...
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR
In Moscow’s Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR (published with Cornell University Press, 2023) Isaac McKean Scarborough weaves together archival documents from Dushanbe and Moscow to tell ...
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We have a new author interview up on @peripheralhist.bsky.social We were lucky enough to speak to Isaac McKean Scarborough about his excellent book 'Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/moscow-...
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR
In Moscow’s Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR (published with Cornell University Press, 2023) Isaac McKean Scarborough weaves together archival documents from Dushanbe and Moscow to tell ...
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We have a great new author interview on the website. Beatrice Penati spoke with our editor Hanna Matt about her new book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...
Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan
Beatrice Penati’s new book Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (published with Brill, 2025) provides a comprehensive account of early S...
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Excited to share my short piece on Soviet Lithuanian priests studying at the Vatican and their role in religious and diplomatic policy of the early 1960s! Thank you to @peripheralhist.bsky.social as well for the platform to do so. t.co/OOUz7xtn6U
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We are back for the academic year with a great new post from Nicole Harry on Soviet Lithuanian priests and Vatican Ostpolitik in the Cold War www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/red-pri...
Red Priests in the Holy City: Vatican Ostpolitik, Informants, and Soviet Lithuanian Priests in the College of Saint Casimir, 1959–1965
Nicole HarryIn 1959, the Holy See of the Catholic Church and the Soviet government agreed to send two Lithuanian priests to study at the Vatican College of Saint Casimir, which was run by Lithuanian é...
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Call for papers: BASEES 2026 Conference Colloquium - 'The Long Eastern Crisis: Habsburg, Ottoman and Romanov Europe in the Struggle for Imperial Definition, 1860–1916 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
*CALL FOR PAPERS, BASEES 2026 Conference Colloquium - 'The Long Eastern Crisis: Habsburg, Ottoman and Romanov Europe in the Struggle for Imperial Definition, 1860–1916* | H-Net
The year 2026 will mark the 110th anniversaries of what are increasingly recognised as defining moments within the wider history of international anti-imperial and anti-colonial struggle: the Easter R...
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The BASEES Eurasian Regions Study Group have put together a roundtable at #ICCEES on publishing in academic journals for postgraduates and early career researchers. Come along to meet friendly editors and ask questions! You can submit questions anonymously here too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We have a new post up from Kateřina Zäch on Soviet environmental engineering and irrigation systems www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/the-dis...
The Disappearance of Sigma’s Forgotten Sprinklers and Sprayers
Kateřina ZächThe Soviet government attempted to demonstrate its resolute power by shaping the perceptions of the population in ways that evinced a feeling of hope. The resource security of the governm...
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Heading to #ICCEES2025 next week? We have put together a list of sessions that may be of interest to Peripheral Histories? readers here: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/iccees-...
ICCEES XI World Congress 2025
The ICCEES XI World Congress is being hosted by UCL in London in 2025, and will run from Monday 21st July to Friday 25th July. There is a large and diverse range of panels and roundtables to view, ei...
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We are back with a new great post from Stanisław Boridczenko on memory, identity, and conflict in Western Belarus www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/father-...
Father Lew Goroszko and the Vanished Intelligentsia: Memory, Identity, and Conflict in Western Belarus
Stanisław BoridczenkoAmong the private papers of Fr Lew Goroszko — now archived in the Francis Skoryna Belarusian Library and Museum situated in northern London — there lies a chilling, handwritten no...
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Fascinating. And heart breaking the state budget crisis has forced the district to close the Nikolaevsk School, part of the Russian Old Believer community and history
Peripheral Histories?@peripheralhist.bsky.social · last yr.We are heading to Alaska with our latest post. Many thanks to Aglaia Gulakova for sharing her fascinating research on the history of Old Believers’ migration and resettlement www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/in-purs...
Continuing with the theme of religion, we have another excellent new post up on the website. Victoria Peretitskaya shares her research on the Doukhobors' attempts to return to the Soviet Union from Canada in the 1920s www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/migrati...
Migration as Protest and Nostalgia: The Doukhobors’ Attempted Return to Soviet Union in the 1920s
Victoria Peretitskaya As religious dissenters, the Doukhobors, a pacifist Christian sect dating back to the eighteenth century, endured multiple resettlements within the borders of the Russian Empire....
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We are heading to Alaska with our latest post. Many thanks to Aglaia Gulakova for sharing her fascinating research on the history of Old Believers’ migration and resettlement www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/in-purs...
In Pursuit of Home: The History of Old Believers’ Resettlement in Alaska
Aglaia GulakovaThese remaining Old Believers must be seen – their strength, their conviction, their selfless nightly prayers (no longer feasible for us), their vital courage and determination – in tho...
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We have a brilliant new post up on the website by Leora Eisenberg on Uzbek and Kazakh pop music in the Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/singing...
Singing Central Asia: Uncovering Kazakh and Uzbek Estrada
Leora EisenbergIt would have been absurd if it wasn’t quite so sincere: at least seven Kazakhstani composers sitting in a conference room, drawing up lists of people I needed to interview for my disse...
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We have a new post up on the website from Kristo Nurmis exploring the wartime activities of Estonian Democrats between the Nazis and the Allies www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/our-rea...
“Our Real Chances of Survival”: Estonian Democrats between the Nazis and the Allies
Kristo Nurmis“Ready to Die for Liberty: Tiny Estonia to Declare War on USSR as well as on Reich.” So proclaimed The Boston Globe in July 1944, relaying dramatic claims from Estonian diplomats in neutr...
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We have more Baltic-focused posts for you courtesy of the @balticbasees.bsky.social. Check out Hanna Maria Aunin's exploration of changing representations of Soviet Deportations in Estonian cinema www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/overloo...
Overlooked Topics and Seeking Recognition: The Changing Representations of Soviet Deportations in Estonian Cinema
Hanna Maria Aunin In January 1988, the editorial board of the Tallinnfilm studio signed a contract with Rein Saluri for a feature film script about mass deportations. According to the studio, the topi...
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Our series in @peripheralhist.bsky.social continues with Rasa Kamarauskaitė's fascinating interview with Rebeka Põldsam (@rebeltulivits.bsky.social) on LGBT studies in Estonia and the normalisation of queerness in the country.
Peripheral Histories?@peripheralhist.bsky.social · 2y agoIn our latest post, you can learn more about the development of LGBT studies and the normalisation of queerness in Estonia. Check out Rasa Kamarauskaitė's (@balticbasees.bsky.social) interview with Estonian sexualities scholar Rebeka Põldsam www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphe...