@llyag.bsky.social
PhD Student, University of Nottingham (2022 - ); Candidate of Sciences, Moscow State University (2016); history of terror in the USSR, digital history. #notowar
Russian TV is now “debating” whether it was right to restrict access to archives on Stalin-era repressions because “we shouldn’t talk about them during the war.” One question: why this bizarre selection of “works by British and American historians” with “catchy titles”?
09.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Visited the @railwaymuseum.bsky.social in York for my placement at the @sciencemuseum.org.uk There’s a dog named Laddie who collected money for charity at a station. After it died, it was stuffed, put in a glass case, and kept collecting for 30 more years. Visitors still drop coins in it…
07.10.2025 17:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The people in the photo enjoy spending time reading through kilometres of documents produced by the secret services, trying to extract any trace of meaning from them. It was a great joy to co-organise a panel on preventative policing and repression in the USSR and Czechoslovakia at #ICCEES2025
25.07.2025 09:50 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Spent 4 days in London at a fantastic #DigitalHumanities & #RSE summer school hosted by @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social. Now stuck in a loop:
🔁 “I need to rewrite all my code!”
🔁 “Must try this new methodology!”
🔁 “Wait… thesis!!”
PhD life in a nutshell😄
Thanks to all the organisers!
The topic of my thesis - the fate of "repeaters," or re-convicted political prisoners under Stalin - is becoming unexpectedly timely, as reports suggest Russian police have resumed this practice: theins.ru/obshestvo/28...
21.06.2025 08:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wonderful news! Congratulations!
23.05.2025 13:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Spent a wonderful two weeks working with Soviet documents at the Hoover Archives. Heading home with 3.5 GB of copied materials, recharged by the sunshine and Stanford University's energy.
17.05.2025 01:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
