Erik R. Scott

Grateful to @radchenko.bsky.social for his insightful review of Defectors!

Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc.

Rubio just cancelled all of them
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Help a book review editor out! Who is working on post-Soviet and contemporary Russian media (news, internet, digital media, etc.) who might be interested in reviewing books for @russianreview.bsky.social? Hoping to update my list because right now it is pretty small.

The Russian Review is here! @russianreview.bsky.social

Looks fantastic!

Starter Pack of Starter Packs

By no means complete (yet!) here's how I am trying to following the musings of those whose work falls under the sports diplomacy umbrella. Let me know who I have missed, or who should be added as they join!

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Our starter pack is now full! 150 people and organisations working on the history of contemporary Europe.

From PGRs to Professors Emeriti, and everyone in between - find a contemporary European historian near you!

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Haven't seen one of these for SHAFR / US in the World people, so thought I'd make one given that I'm currently trapped under a cat. Happy to add people!

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Just a few so far. Let me know who to add!

I hadn’t seen anyone else do it, so I’m working on a starter pack of Russia/USSR/Eurasia historians. Check it out!

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Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

Excited to talk about Defectors at next week’s Washington History Seminar with two scholars whose work has inspired and influenced me over the years. www.wilsoncenter.org/event/defect...

Yes, will do!

Yes, I’d be happy to talk about my new book on Soviet defectors, either on camera or on your podcast!

Defectors and the Cold War | The Eurasian Knot Get more from The Eurasian Knot on Patreon

I had fun talking about Defectors with Sean Guillory and Rusana Cieply of @euraknot.bsky.social, one of my favorite podcasts. Here's the link to our discussion: www.patreon.com/posts/defect...

It is an amazing image. I’m actually working on an article right now about this series, the 1988 tour of the Atlanta Hawks to the USSR that followed, and the privatization of the Soviet sports empire at the Cold War’s end.

Thank you!

@rauchway.bsky.social Could you kindly add me as a poster to Whats’s History? Thank for setting up this feed!

My first book was on the concept of internal diasporas in the USSR and focused on Georgians. My second book (Defectors) looks at a range of different emigre/diaspora groups and their responses to those fleeing the Soviet Union.

Thanks for getting this thread started! I work on the history of the multiethnic Soviet Union, migration, diaspora, and comparative empires.

One of the most disgusting things about being an academic now is too see so many smart, talented people, colleagues, putting abstract concepts and theories--realism, restraint, decolonization, resistance--above basic humanity and respect for life. Not the finest hour/day/year of the intellectuals