He also serves as President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies and is currently researching Cold War cultural exchanges between American and Soviet children. Get in touch with Matthias if you have a review essay idea!
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...he is the author of The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1932 and co-editor of Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide: Tradition, Rupture and Modernity.
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The last, but certainly not the least, of our associate editors is Matthias Neumann. A specialist in childhood and youth in revolutionary Russia...
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Don't forget to send your review essay ideas to Ian Campbell!
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His award-shortlisted book, Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, explores how tsarist officials understood—and governed—the Kazak steppe. He’s now working on projects examining borderlands violence across the Russian Empire and rethinking Kazakhstan through the lens of settler colonialism.
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We are not done introducing our great associate editors! This week, meet associate editor Ian Campbell. Ian studies prerevolutionary Russia, focusing on the relationship between the imperial center and its non-Russian borderlands.
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Have a review essay idea? Send it to Maria Grazia!
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Her research explores the religious culture of early modern Ukraine, with a focus on preaching, memory, visual arts, and Christian Neoplatonism in the East Slavic world. A two-time ESSA Best Article Prize winner, she most often handles topics related to pre-Petrine history.
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Did you know that Kritika has four fabulous associate editors?
Today, meet Associate Editor Maria Grazia Bartolini, associate professor of Medieval Slavic Culture at the University of Milan.
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Interested in writing review essays or review articles on Soviet history after 1953? Get in touch with Erin at hutchinson@colorado.edu and join the conversation shaping the field!
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In case you missed it: Kritika is excited to welcome Erin Hutchinson as our new Associate Editor. Erin is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches courses on the history of the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire, and modern Europe.
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Learn more by reading the Letter from the Editors from the latest issue: georgetown.app.box.com/s/h5c1p0zsxk...
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In Kritika's last issue, our editors addressed some of the field's greatest challenges— funding cuts, threats to academic freedoms, and the continued impact of the war in Ukraine—but also the steps Kritika is taking to counter these threats to scholarship.
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Please submit a PDF of your abstract and short CV to Kritika’s Special Projects Editor, Stephen Bittner (bittner@sonoma.edu) by 1 March 2026.
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📝 Call for Proposals:
“Demonstrations”: Rituals of Political Belonging, Support, and Dissent in Eurasia from the Medieval Period to 2000
For more information, visit kritika.georgetown.edu/announcement...
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