Last chance to register for Friday’s workshop (in person or online)!
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Power beyond the grave
Polly Jones on an account of the transition between Soviet leaders
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Really enjoyed this conversation!
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Fantastic early career opportunity here: three-year junior research fellowship at University College, Oxford. Great colleagues, great wisteria!
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Hugely enjoyed this book, and my last year as Nove judge. What a pleasure to read so many wonderful books over the last three years.
04.02.2025 11:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Never really post anything here but the actual BLUE SKY today merits a mention!
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Gulag Fiction by Polly Jones | Book review | The TLS
Polly Jones observes, in her fascinating Gulag Fiction: Labour camp literature from Stalin to Putin, that many of the Soviet state’s “grandiose
Very happy to have written a few words about @drpollyjones.bsky.social's excellent new book on Gulag fiction for @thetls.bsky.social. Really terrific overview and close readings of various texts and trends, older and recent!
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03.01.2025 17:54 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy publication day to me! Now available as paperback, hardback and e-book, for all your format needs!
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Associate Professor of Russian, Rutgers University. Cultural history; ideologies of the late/post-Soviet Russian middle class. Author of "The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Assistant Professor LBJ School | National Security Fellow Clements Center | Historian of Russia and Eastern Europe | Views are my own
Based at the University of Oxford, the Oxford Ukraine Hub (OUH) is an interdisciplinary network that connects researchers across disciplines with an interest in Ukraine.
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Writes about things: Russian lit, Joycean links, prisons, PTA, weird books, Chornobyl, other passions (and whims). Teaches at Bryn Mawr College. Tends to ducks.
Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. International communism, the Spanish civil war, transnational networks, gender, war & memory, childhood. Never pass up unusual travel opportunities.
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Associate Prof & Head of History @YSJ. Early Soviet history and Stalinism. Working on POWs and the Soviet Red Cross. Occasional drummer https://shorturl.at/LRaWz
Geographer, Durham
Researching nuclear natures at Chornobyl & urban rewilding in London
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Director, NYU Prague. Czech, German and Comparative Literature. Verbal and visual modernisms. Kafka. Mushrooms. Cats (or, at least, one particular cat). All opinions here are my own (re-post ≠ necessarily endorsement).
Memory studies, human rights, conspiracies, museums, and social media. Regional focus: Russia | Postdoc at the University of Amsterdam | PoSoCoMeS Working Group at the Memory Studies Association.
Historian | International history, global development, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at Univ. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," now working on Shi'a Islamism | Views my own.
Historian at Boston College
communism, fascism, nationalism
USSR, Germany, Balkans to Baltics
book: GERMAN BLOOD, SLAVIC SOIL
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Deeply skeptical of social media - just here to watch you all fight it out
Assistant Professor in Internet Governance at Maastricht University | Internet censorship | Platform governance | Russian politics & political communication
Member of The Young Academy (KNAW)
Academic editor @policyr.bsky.social
Retired prof living it up in NYC.
History/Film/Digital/
Current book: Eisenstein & Nature. Strong opinions about tennis.
Gimme some acoustic blues.
She/her. ☮️ Ceasefire Now.
Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022)
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historian of the Soviet Union, surveillance, and the secret police; curriculum and pedagogy nerd with a passion for the liberal arts
Historian. Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe. Currently working on spies, scientists, and Cold War fictions.
journalist at The Moscow Times, Prospect, The Telegraph, The Times
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